Facilitation - Mediation - Parts Work
Zara helps people navigate conflict, change, and life's important conversations.
There’s rarely just one story. Every situation holds multiple perspectives — even within a single person — and my work is to help them become visible, so greater understanding can shape what comes next.
“I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody…has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace." -Ken Wilber
Why you Might Work With Zara
Today, there are millions of voices zooming around cyberspace and, if we're honest, in your inner space as well. If your heart and mind are seeking peace, you're not alone.
Working with Zara can help you hold all of these seemingly disparate truths and resolve the conflict between them. By learning to bridge the differences and contradictions within ourselves, you can open the door to building deeper, more trusting relationships with the people around you.
Taking perspective...
Build capability to embrace other perspectives without judgement or discomfort, deepen understanding and empathy toward yourself and others.
Comfort with conflict...
Closely examine conflict in your life. Gain insight into your conflict patterns so you can bravely use conflict to generate outcomes that strengthen relationships.
Self-expression...
Enhance your communication skills, so you can accurately express what you feel, see, want and need from others. Feel empowered to express your truth.
Self-love and compassion...
Learn to approach the self with a willingness to understand, appreciate and even find love for all your underlying motivations and challenging aspects.
Integration...
Conflict work, parts work, creative play and communication skills will all benefit with a sense of peace and integration within the self. Wholeness.
Creativity as a resource...
Discover a vast well of resources and connect with your inner wisdom by letting go of "cognition"; develop a playful approach to problem solving through creative play.
Now Booking Sessions for...
Individuals
Book a session to explore a question within yourself, navigate a life change, prepare for a difficult conversation, or process a current or past conflict.
Couples
For romantic partners, family members, friends, business partners, and any two people who want to better understand one another.
Groups
Meet Zara...
Zara Shallbetter is a facilitator, mediator, and parts work practitioner based in Salt Lake City. Her approach blends structured methods (LIKE?) with genuine curiosity about what's really going on beneath the surface of a conflict. She holds a B.S. in Communication, a Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution, is a Utah Court Rostered Mediator, and has completed advanced training in Integral Facilitation.
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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