Make your relationships a gift
WHAT: This seminar explores conflict as a living, relational process by bringing it onto the stage. Through embodied practices, participants develop awareness, presence, and the ability to stay connected in moments of tension and difference.
WHERE: Vilnius, Lithuania
WHEN: 6th to 8th of March, 2026
Make your Relationship a gift - Conflict on Stage
practice to wisely use tension to move into connection and co-creation
Wherever people meet, conflict is present — in visible disagreements as well as in subtle tensions, unspoken emotions, and polarized positions.
Often these dynamics remain hidden or are acted out indirectly, limiting connection, trust, and mutual understanding.
In this seminar, we bring conflict onto the stage — not to perform it, but to work with it consciously.
Participants explore how conflicts unfold through roles, power dynamics, projections, and inner contradictions, while developing awareness of their own patterns of engagement, avoidance, and readiness for conflict work. Through inner work, experiential exercises and group processes, we create a learning space that invites seriousness and lightness at the same time.
Here, conflict is not something to suppress or manage, but a doorway to insight, relationship, and agency.
In this sense, relationship itself can become a gift — shaped through presence, dialogue skilss, and the willingness to meet.
Key Contents / Learning Fields
Making hidden tensions visible and workable
Recognizing personal patterns of engaging with conflict
Exploring readiness, resistance, and avoidance
Understanding inner conflict and its impact on outer dynamics
Working with polarity, power, and projection
Staying connected in moments of difference and tension
Transforming conflict into connection and co-creation
Schedule:
Friday 6-8 pm
Saturday 10-6 pm
Sunday 10-4 pm
Pricing:
300 € (excl. VAT)
Scholarships on seminar tuition available.
Process work (also called Deep Democracy) is a multidimensional approach to the whole system that takes into account the natural flow of development hidden behind polarizations and conflicts. Originally developed by Arnold Mindell, it is a community-building approach and a conflict-resolution model that works with the entirety of the information that is present within a system. It can be used to coach individuals, facilitate teams and organizations, and lead and support national and international processes across communities and borders.
“Process work interventions enable individuals to understand their own lives, discover the potential for themselves and their environment, feel more interaction and aliveness, and thus live with creativity and a stronger connectedness.”
Drs. Max and Ellen Schupbach, founders of the Deep Democracy Institute.
Facilitators/organizers:
Stephanie Bachmair is a Process Work Diplomate with a practice focused on dream-inspired leadership and creative approaches to organisational and social change. She teaches internationally as part of the DDI Alliance, is a co-founder of the Lithuania Process Work School, and is also the founder of echoed.studio, a social enterprise exploring dialogue, eldership, and collective dreaming across cultures.
Zbigniew Milunski, co-founder of Process Work Institute Lithuania, a psychotherapist, supervisor, and teacher of Process Oriented Psychology (POP). He is a faculty member of the Polish Institute of Processwork Foundation, and co-founder of the Lithuania Process Work School. Since 2019, he has been conducting ongoing POP trainings and open seminars in Lithuania.