Navida Nuraney is a liberatory coach, creative facilitator, and conflict engagement teacher devoted to creating enabling environments where people feel nourished and supported to build deeper, more honest relationships with themselves and one another. She stewards wisdom about ritual, sanctuary, and collective care, drawing from her lineage as an Ismaili Muslim with Gujarati ancestry. Navida is building toward a long-term vision of a sacred learning centre for the Global Majority, rooted in joy, pleasure, and collective flourishing.

Across her career, she has held leadership roles in start-ups, nonprofits, and municipal government, with a consistent focus on cultivating more creative and relationally alive workplaces. She holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia in Human Resources and Organizational Development, and her early training in architecture and graphic design enabled her to see how beauty and aesthetics shape experience.

Navida lives on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh Peoples. She is committed to being in right relation through ongoing learning, unlearning anti Indigenous racism, and reckoning with the privileges of settlement, with the intention of practicing reciprocity and responsible presence for future generations.

This workshop offers an introduction to some of the grounding concepts in Lewis Deep Democracy, a facilitation method rooted in Jungian psychological principles that works with embodied ways of engaging difference, tension, and conflict.

Rather than aiming to resolve conflict, this method builds your capacity to stay with it, hold paradox, and allow multiple truths to coexist.

Using the metaphor of an iceberg, the workshop explores the difference between what is visible and discussable in a group and what remains hidden beneath the surface. Above the waterline lives the shared, conscious conversation. Below it sits the group’s unconscious, where emotions, tensions, and untapped wisdom often reside. When groups feel stuck or polarized, the root of the challenge is often below the waterline.

This workshop also introduces the Resistance Line, a core Deep Democracy concept that helps participants recognize how disagreement and dissent show up when people do not feel able or willing to speak openly.

If you are feeling stuck, individually or collectively, this workshop offers a way to explore what is below the surface and bring hidden dynamics into clearer view.