Embracing Inner and
Outer Conflict
A Teaching on Growth and Discomfort
Our Invitation
Conflict is unavoidable and also essential to embodying our potential here on Earth. In this free May Day (Beltane) 2023 teaching, Daniel explored ways to understand and even embrace the critical importance of conflict on the path of personal growth and awakening. We considered the relationship between different types of inner and outer conflict, as well as how the Earth-honoring, relational ethics of animism can inform the ways that we navigate areas of difference. The gathering was, as always, culturally inclusive and kind toward those living in hardship, including relational abuse, systemic oppression, and other forms of acute danger.
This free teaching introduced material that was explored at greater depth in a 2023 short course, Skills for Healthy Conflict and Boundaries. We’re now happy to share it again in the lead up to a new 2025 course, Manipulation, Fear, and Deception (live teachings begin in November). You’re also warmly invited to join a free 90 minute teaching in October of this year on similar themes, Respecting Fear.
Enjoy!
May we courageously embrace conflict that arises as an invitation to more fully inhabit our potential.
— Daniel Foor
About the Instructor
Daniel Foor
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
