An educator, a writer, A peace-maker at heart & by profession.
The short ‘about’: Dr. Sara Shamdani is a mediator, an educator and an international speaker. She is passionate about supporting people transform their conflict into meaningful changes and builds bridges between people in her family mediation practice. She loves to play board games and video games, and travel whenever she can.
The long ‘about’: I love to play board games and video games.
I love thinking, assessing, strategizing, rolling the dice, thinking again, and having fun. I have found that through play I get to know myself and those I play with. I learn about who I am in the decisions I make and I get to experiment with things that I would only do in the space of play. I love it so much that I have spent several years writing my dissertation on the importance of play in socio-political video games and their ability to impact people in ways that no other form of art can do.
I also love to think and write (hence the PhD). I love writing the way I love playing. In writing I learn who I am and what I think. I understand myself and others better. Writing slows down my thoughts and makes me pay attention to the nuances of the situation and the complexities of life. And because I’m both a mediator and an educator on conflict transformation, I pay close attention to forms of conflict and their affects and effects.
In the pages of this blog, I explore the sensations and attunements of conflict and power and the human need and desire for connection. I often write from the space of affect itself, from the place of a sensation: something that felt like something. I try to work through that something for myself by writing and thinking about it. Sometimes these somethings find themselves on my company’s blog post as well.
I hope on these pages and among these stories you find something that resonates with you or makes you feel something.
Affects of Conflict 