Returning to Balance: Indigenous Pathways for Conflict, Repair, and Healing
Returning to Balance is a land-based, community-processed gathering to restore "right relationship" to the divisions between land, people, and community through sharing Indigenous Wisdom practices, where the land itself is considered a participant in the healing.
Darren Parry, former Chairman of the Northwestern Shoshone tribe, has partnered with Sierra Benson Collett, certified in conflict management and facilitation, to host these workshops.
This Indigenous culture, thousands of years old, knew how to resolve conflict and build bridges. That knowledge is still with us today. It just needs to be shared in the right place, at the right time, to the right people.
What to expect
You will be invited to understand that conflict is a symptom, not a disease, and to shift the focus from winning to returning to "right relationship." This training is centered on a return to land, story, and relationship as the ground of resolution.
Participants leave with:
Re-humanization of all parties: seeing themselves and others as full human beings again rather than positions to defeat.
A renewed sense of belonging: reconnection to place, to community, and to their own responsibility within it.
Shared responsibility rather than blame: an orientation that shifts from who caused harm to what we will repair together.
Commitments grounded in care, not compliance: something chosen, not imposed.
A new way to navigate their own conflict: practical, embodied, and rooted learnings to carry beyond the workshop and into your life.
The land does not choose sides. But it does remember how we treat one another. This workshop is an invitation to remember that too.