Jar Amok (Deep Root)

Jar Amok provides Conflict / Harm resolution and transformation services with an anti-oppressive (i.e. liberatory), disability justice, and trauma-informed lenses to the greater DC area at the internal (healing), interpersonal, communal, institutional (organizational), and macro level (social movements). We take an 'ecosystem' approach to this work. This means we understand how each moment of conflict and harm is not only about the individual situation itself, but also the larger context around it. While we transform individual conflict + harm moments, we surface the 'deep roots' of the ecosystem that seem broken or need support, and support clients in being able to repair / reconnect them. Services include (but are not limited to): - Create and facilitate transformational circles to restore and repair individual, interpersonal, and communal relationships (i.e. 'a return to authenticity and connection'); train individuals on how to sustain this work into the future beyond the transformation in question - Create and implement sustainable (and fluid-to-change) processes for filling gaps within the 'ecosystem'; with a critical eye towards addressing and repairing power imbalances, oppression and trauma. - Provide intra-organizational or movement conflict / harm work; everything from repairing relationships to setting up sustainable anti-oppressive and trauma-informed ways of working and being with one another - 3rd Party consulting on conflict / harm work for movements - Collaborating to create training and community-building modules for conflict / harm transformation (with an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens) - Interdisciplinary conflict + harm transformation methods (circles, arts, somatic, activity) -- Why the name Jar Amok (Deep Root)? Jar Amok is made of two words that represent my two ancestral lineages: Jar -- 'Root' in Urdu, the language of my Pakistani Muslim father; Amok -- 'Deep' in Hebrew, the language of my E. European Jewish mother.