Join RISE San Diego and facilitator Manuel Belmonte for Conflict & Healing: Navigating Tension, Accountability & Repair, an in-person, three-part series designed to strengthen your capacity to navigate tension, address conflict constructively, and create pathways toward accountability, repair, and restored relationships.

Together, we will:

• Explore our personal relationship to conflict and how we respond under stress

• Practice de-escalation and conflict mitigation skills for tense moments

• Learn restorative practices for accountability, repair, and healing

Part 1: Tuesday, November 17, 2026 (5:00–8:00 pm): Understanding Our Relationship to Conflict

Part 2: Monday, November 23, 2026 (5:00–8:00 pm): De-escalation and Conflict Mitigation

Part 3: Tuesday, December 1, 2026 (5:00–8:00 pm): Restorative Practices

Registration includes all three sessions: $249 for RISE alumni and $349 general admission. Seating is limited.

For more information and to register, please visit our event page on GiveButter.

Your facilitator

Manuel (Manu) Belmonte (he/him/él) is first and foremost a proud older brother, son, uncle, partner, friend, cousin, nephew, and godfather of Mexican decent and Cochimi and Nahuas lineage. Manu is also a holistic educator, facilitator, circle keeper and restorative practitioner whose work is grounded in growth, healing, transformation, and collective well-being.

Manu brings over five years of experience as a restorative practitioner, drawing on Restorative Practices Through an Indigenous Lens, training from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and more than a decade of supervisory experience across the nonprofit and academic sectors to Conflict and Healing: Navigating Tension, Accountability, and Repair and is excited to share his knowledge wisdom and experience with the community.

This series is made possible in partnership with heARTspace.

RISE Leadership Development draws on adaptive leadership frameworks, group relations theory, and restorative practices to help leaders take on complex challenges within and alongside their communities. Learn more on our program page.

Join RISE San Diego and Nadeaja Shaheed, M.A., of Honey & Kind Coaching for Becoming: A Liberatory Practice of Identity, Rest & Transformative Leadership, an in-person, one-day workshop exploring what it means to lead from the fullness of who you are, rather than from what the world expects you to be.

Using the metaphor of a tree, participants will map the roots, trunk, branches, and leaves of their identities, and explore how the stories we carry, the voices within us, and the systems around us shape the way we lead.

Together, we will:

• Explore storytelling as medicine, ancestral wisdom, and reflective writing

• Build nervous system awareness through grounding, breath, and embodied practice

• Examine identity, power, and belonging in conversation with bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Frantz Fanon

• Reclaim rest as a practice of resistance and care, drawing on Tricia Hersey’s Rest Is Resistance

Saturday, December 5, 2026 (10:00 am–4:00 pm): University of San Diego, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall

Investment: $449 RISE alumni · $849 general admission

For more information and to register, please visit our event page on Give Butter.

Nadeaja Shaheed, M.A., of Honey & Kind Coaching is a leadership coach, educator, and nonprofit consultant whose work lives at the intersection of transformation, justice, and human connection. A RISE Urban Leadership Fellow (Cohort IX), Nadeaja holds an MA in Leadership Studies from the University of San Diego and is pursuing a doctorate in Organizational Leadership.

RISE Leadership Development leverages adaptive leadership frameworks, group relations theory, and cultural competency to empower leaders to tackle seemingly complex challenges within and alongside their communities. Learn more on our program page.