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Conflict De-escalation and Reconciliation…
Conflict is an intrinsic part of the human experience. However it is our individual, interpersonal, and collective responses that shed light on who we are, and where we choose to assign meaning. While the contradictions in our personal and social movements are profoundly layered, choosing to engage vulnerability amidst uncertainty facilitates opportunities for creativity, accountability, and healing.
Grace Lee Boggs shares, “A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.” This message inspires me to facilitate healthy power dynamics independent of a punitive legal system. How can we address harm as a means to cultivate our community interdependence? Can we honor the complexity of our different lived experiences in the spirit of mutual aid and healing justice?
Read more about my holistic approach to conflict transformation here.
Sima Savdharia is a Spanish-speaking mediator, conflict coach, nonviolence trainer, and restorative justice practitioner, with a wealth of experience facilitating in the realm of conflict transformation. She is a 2025 TEL (Transformative Educational Leadership) fellow, as well as a graduate of USF’s “Urban Education and Social Justice” M.A. program, and The East Bay Meditation Center’s “Practice in Transformative Action” program.
Her professional experiences include working as a classroom educator, being a community mediator and case manager, supporting migrant advocacy efforts at the U.S.-Mexico border, and consulting for a variety of community based organizations and city agencies across California. She has a passion for trauma-informed organizational development and strives to bring a holistic approach to her work by using a healing-centered, needs-based analysis with respect to equity and belonging. In her free time you could find her pondering the vast complexities of interdependence, or hiking in nature with her beloved road dog, Wasabi.
