ONLINE MEETING | Dancing at the Crossroads: Dancing at the Crossroads: Four Alchemical Processes to Explore How Mediators Cultivate and Mobilize Hope in Unsettled Times
This meeting is being hosted by the ADR - Nanaimo Section.
| Speakers: |
Michelle LeBaron, Professor of Law, Allard School of Law, UBC |
| Time: |
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 5:30pm - 7:00pm (PT) |
| Fee: |
CBA Member: Free!
Non-CBA Member: $95 (+ GST)
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| CPD Hours: |
1.50 hour |
This workshop takes its inspiration from these lines from Seamus Heaney:
“So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge,
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here…”
Professor Michelle LeBaron leads a workshop offering a short journey through four alchemical processes to explore how mediators cultivate and mobilize hope in unsettled times. The conflicts we work with carry the valence of wider concerns. How can we be alive to these concerns while assisting others to shift stuck dynamics? How is beauty a resource in our work? What role do arts and creative practices play? As these questions are explored with reference to mediation practice experiences, Professor LeBaron reflects on how Jungian concepts of alchemy, when sistered to arts, can be resources in our work.
About the Speaker
Michelle LeBaron has been a tenured professor at the Allard School of Law in Vancouver, Canada since 2003. Her work centres on alchemy as embodied practice in conflict engagement. In collaboration with professional dancers, visual artists and musicians, she explores how the alchemical potential of creative and expressive arts practices foster dialogue and change in intractable conflicts. In addition to her work at UBC, she has served as core faculty at the European Graduate School on Expressive Arts Therapy in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and as the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (2015-2018).
Professor LeBaron’s books include Changing Our Worlds: Art as Transformative Practice; The Choreography of Resolution: Conflict, Movement and Neuroscience; Conflict Across Cultures: A New Approach for a Changing World; Bridging Cultural Conflicts; and Bridging Troubled Waters. Professor LeBaron’s articles on alchemy and arts-informed research/practice in conflict have appeared in Organizational Aesthetics, the International Journal of Professional Management, Non Liquet (Westminster Law and Theory Lab Law and the Senses Series) and the Journal of Law and Society.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This event will be broadcast from the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam First Nations. We encourage members to explore the rich history and knowledge of Indigenous people, and to continue learning about their experience in Canada past and present.
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