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Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living & Dying

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Abundant Finances

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Comfortable Finances

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Stable Finances

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Strained Finances

What if the parts of yourself you most want to hide turned out to be the most generative parts of you? Our shadows show up most vividly in relationship.&nbsp;The parts we reject, defend, or project onto other people also hold our honesty, our creativity, and our capacity to belong. Creating Connection Through Conflict is a three-part experiential sampler and practice laboratory led by Lee Warren, offering embodied, playful, and creative approaches to engaging those shadows. This is not a conflict resolution class, a communication model, mediation, or group therapy. It is a hands-on sampler of exercises that help us lean into our shadows in ways that cultivate discovery, connection, and delight. Through games, ShadowPlay, process work, hot seats, ZEGG Forum, role play, relational experiments, fishbowls, nondual inquiry, family constellations, and other creative practices, we will move toward the material we usually avoid, and in doing so introduce new patterns into the strategies we have long used to protect ourselves. Across three evenings, the group becomes a laboratory where our relational patterns can surface and offer insight, practice, and new possibility. The work helps us normalize conflict and difference, build attachment and belonging, deepen trust, strengthen skills for repair, grow our self-awareness and emotional literacy, and explore the role of eros in conflict. A sampler is a short experiential tasting of several practices rather than a full deep dive. The intention is to give us a felt sense that this is possible, and to build appetite, safety, and curiosity for a longer-form offering to come. This is for anyone who senses that conflict holds more possibility than we have been taught, whether you are navigating a close partnership, deepening friendships, building community, working collaboratively, or simply longing to become more skillful and alive in relationship.&nbsp; You do not need to be in active conflict with anyone, and you do not need to be good at it. Bring your defenses, your tenderness, the part that wants to run, the part that wants to be right, the part that wants to blame, the part that wants to be cherished, and the part that is afraid it may not belong. This work sits close to the heart of what we practice at Emberlight. Our value of Curiosity asks us to embrace the unknown with adaptability and creativity, and our value of Loving Presence asks us to listen deeply and bear witness to one another. Our shadows are, at their root, our fear of living and of dying. Learning to meet them together is one of the ways we stay human, connected, and alive within the circles we love. This is a three-part series and one ticket covers all three evenings:&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm to 9:00pm.</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">Thursday, October 8, 6:30pm to 9:00pm.</li><li fr-original-style="text-align: start;" style="text-align: start; box-sizing: inherit;">Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:30pm to 9:00pm.&nbsp;</li></ul>The sessions build on one another, so please plan to join us for all three if possible. You are still welcome to join us for one or two session if you are not able to attend all three. Meet Your Facilitator: Lee Warren Lee Warren is a somatic guide, Tantra and death educator, writer, and community builder. Her work has been shaped by more than three decades of ecovillage living, coordinating dozens of regional events, a deep commitment to place-based education, and participation in Tantric community, settings where conflict, collaboration, belonging, and repair have been part of the everyday terrain. Her approach to creative conflict draws from training and practice in NVC, Process Work, IFS, ZEGG Forum, and attachment, along with the additions of embodiment, erotic ShadowPlay, and trauma-informed Tantra. She is the founder of Reclaiming Wisdom and Queen of Death, and the author of the forthcoming book Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care. We will gather in the Lighthouse at Emberlight, 83 Sanctuary Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778. Please contact events@emberlightway.org with any questions. This is a benefit event for Emberlight. Please note that all event tickets are non-refundable, except in the case that Emberlight cancels the event.&nbsp;The cost of the ticket includes your participation in all 3 nights of practice.

<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' id="isPasted" style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 196); overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; margin: 0px; padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; box-sizing: inherit;">First name ,<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Your registration is confirmed. Here are the details:<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>What: Creating Connection Through Conflict, a three-part series Dates: Thursday, October 1, Thursday, October 8, and Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:30pm to 9:00pm Location: The Lighthouse at Emberlight, 83 Sanctuary Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Your registration covers all three evenings. The sessions build on one another, so please plan to join us for each one.<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>If for any reason you are no longer able to attend, please let us know by replying to this email so we may open your place for someone else.<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Please note that tickets are non-refundable, except in the case that Emberlight cancels the event.<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Parking is limited on site, please consider carpooling when possible. When parking at Emberlight, please avoid parallel parking in spaces large enough for multiple diagonal spots, and make sure your car isn&#39;t blocking or extending into the driveway.<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>We&#39;ll begin promptly. Arriving a few minutes early helps you settle in, but if life has other plans, please come anyway. You are welcome exactly as you arrive.<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Facilitator: Lee Warren. 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We look forward to being with you.<p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'> <p fr-original-style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;' style='color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; width: 100%; box-sizing: inherit;'>Warmly, The Emberlight Events Team events@emberlightway.org http://www.emberlightway.org

What if the parts of yourself you most want to hide turned out to be the most generative parts of you? Our shadows show up most vividly in relationship. The parts we reject, defend, or project onto other people also hold our honesty, our creativity, and our capacity to belong. Creating Connection Through Conflict is a three-part experiential sampler and practice laboratory led by Lee Warren, offering embodied, playful, and creative approaches to engaging those shadows. This is not a conflict resolution class, a communication model, mediation, or group therapy. It is a hands-on sampler of exercises that help us lean into our shadows in ways that cultivate discovery, connection, and delight. Through games, ShadowPlay, process work, hot seats, ZEGG Forum, role play, relational experiments, fishbowls, nondual inquiry, family constellations, and other creative practices, we will move toward the material we usually avoid, and in doing so introduce new patterns into the strategies we have long used to protect ourselves. Across three evenings, the group becomes a laboratory where our relational patterns can surface and offer insight, practice, and new possibility. The work helps us normalize conflict and difference, build attachment and belonging, deepen trust, strengthen skills for repair, grow our self-awareness and emotional literacy, and explore the role of eros in conflict. A sampler is a short experiential tasting of several practices rather than a full deep dive. The intention is to give us a felt sense that this is possible, and to build appetite, safety, and curiosity for a longer-form offering to come. This is for anyone who senses that conflict holds more possibility than we have been taught, whether you are navigating a close partnership, deepening friendships, building community, working collaboratively, or simply longing to become more skillful and alive in relationship.  You do not need to be in active conflict with anyone, and you do not need to be good at it. Bring your defenses, your tenderness, the part that wants to run, the part that wants to be right, the part that wants to blame, the part that wants to be cherished, and the part that is afraid it may not belong. This work sits close to the heart of what we practice at Emberlight. Our value of Curiosity asks us to embrace the unknown with adaptability and creativity, and our value of Loving Presence asks us to listen deeply and bear witness to one another. Our shadows are, at their root, our fear of living and of dying. Learning to meet them together is one of the ways we stay human, connected, and alive within the circles we love. This is a three-part series and one ticket covers all three evenings: <ul><li>Thursday, October 1, 6:30pm to 9:00pm.</li><li>Thursday, October 8, 6:30pm to 9:00pm.</li><li>Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:30pm to 9:00pm. </li></ul>The sessions build on one another, so please plan to join us for all three if possible. You are still welcome to join us for one or two session if you are not able to attend all three. Meet Your Facilitator: Lee Warren Lee Warren is a somatic guide, Tantra and death educator, writer, and community builder. Her work has been shaped by more than three decades of ecovillage living, coordinating dozens of regional events, a deep commitment to place-based education, and participation in Tantric community, settings where conflict, collaboration, belonging, and repair have been part of the everyday terrain. Her approach to creative conflict draws from training and practice in NVC, Process Work, IFS, ZEGG Forum, and attachment, along with the additions of embodiment, erotic ShadowPlay, and trauma-informed Tantra. She is the founder of Reclaiming Wisdom and Queen of Death, and the author of the forthcoming book Dying Together: The Art of Community Death Care. We will gather in the Lighthouse at Emberlight, 83 Sanctuary Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778. Please contact events@emberlightway.org with any questions. This is a benefit event for Emberlight. Please note that all event tickets are non-refundable, except in the case that Emberlight cancels the event. The cost of the ticket includes your participation in all 3 nights of practice.

Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living & Dying

Creating Connection Through Conflict

83 Sanctuary Rd

Abundant Finances

$90

Comfortable Finances

$75

Stable Finances

$60

Strained Finances

$30

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