Tamarack Institute Webinar
Growing Through Conflict:
Tools for Relational Community Work
September 10, 2025 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Description
Join us for a guided webinar exploring how we can engage in conflict in ways that strengthen rather than fracture our communities.
This session is an invitation to pause and consider:
- What does principled struggle look like in practice?
- How do we remain relational and rooted when tensions arise?
- What tools, mindsets, and approaches can help us navigate conflict in generative and sustainable ways?
As part of our time together, we will also explore Tamarack’s Conflict Navigation Guide: Towards Transformation — a practical and reflective tool designed to support individuals and groups in moving through conflict with clarity, integrity, and care. This guide will serve as a touchstone for our reflections, helping us root our experiences in tangible frameworks for transformation.
Designed as a reflective space, this webinar is for community practitioners, facilitators, organizers, and anyone seeking to build deeper capacities for navigating conflict differently. Drawing from both lived experiences and shared wisdom, we will explore the practices that allow us to show up in conflict with integrity, humility, and hope.
What to Expect:
- A gently facilitated space grounded in guided reflection rather than discussion
- Thoughtful prompts to support personal and collective inquiry
- Space to explore the roots of conflict and what it reveals about our values, systems, and relationships
- An invitation to deepen your understanding of principled struggle and how conflict can be a tool for connection and transformation
- A pace that allows for slowness, clarity, and care
Whether you’re holding space for difficult conversations or grappling with your own conflict dynamics, this session aims to offer new perspectives, support mutual learning, and honour the role of conflict as a natural part of growing community.
Speakers
Yas Hassen, Associate Director
Yas is an Associate Director at Tamarack’s Learning Centre. They are dedicated to community development and engagement, prioritizing ethical co-creation and collaboration. With an MA in Adult Education and Community Development, their focus lies in effecting tangible systems change by innovatively bridging gaps across various fronts including Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, anti-racism, belonging, anti-poverty, and climate justice, all in pursuit of just futures.
Learn more
- WORKSHOP | Let’s Talk About Conflict Workshop hosted by Yas Hassen on November 20th
- WEBINAR RECORDING | Transformative Strategies to Rebuild Community Relationships
- TOOL | The Gradients of Agreement