Programs

Many of us come to movement seeking healing from the conditions we are fighting to change. In order to successfully grow our leaders, we must invest in their development — not just intellectually, but also somatically. We support leaders in moving through obstacles to more fully embody their power and potential.

Is your team, group, or organization struggling to move through disagreements, tensions, or addressing harm? Get support finding generative ways to navigate conflict while growing alongside each other.

Are you in a moment of reassessing your strategy? Or creating a new one? We can support in asking the questions and offering the structures that will get you to a clearer place of alignment in your organizational strategy.

The ongoing colonization of Palestine and current genocide is unbearably devastating. We must keep feeling so that we can keep fighting. As people in the belly of the imperialist beast of the U.S., the government counts on our numbness as we implicitly consent to billions of dollars being sent to the Israeli apartheid state every year. We must keep feeling. We must keep resisting. We must keep transforming. In this workshop we will: Disentangle from Zionist propaganda; Root into anti-Zionist histories of resistance; Explore inter-generational trauma; Workshop difficult conversations; Debrief organizing experiences; and create space for our collective grief in action.

Pleasure and despair can be compasses in our lives; guiding us closer to our deepest longings. In this workshop, we focus on somatic commitments, contradictions, mutual alliances, and pleasure based resilience practices. The series follows a spiralinear pattern moving between practices centered around pleasure and play alongside grief and despair.

When we unlearn the ways the state confines our bodies and heal the ways we have internalized these systems of oppression, we open up possibilities for collective transformation. Along with the internalized experiences of gendered oppression and sexualized trauma, our collective bodies have the capacity to experience immense joy and pleasure together. The theory and practices we teach are intended to liberate this energy in our bodies and access more of our power.

The kind of rigid boundaries we inherit to keep ourselves safe through state based violence and oppression are not our only option. We need to be able to set boundaries in a range of ways including ones that maintain safety in connection; boundaries that are permeable and allow for a deepening of intimacy and growth in relationships. We need this in our organizing relationships, our romantic and/or sexual relationships, our familial relationships, our relationships with land, and all the other beings with whom we share space. In this workshop we will examine the roots of individualism in our bodies and histories. We will learn how to cultivate reciprocity and mutuality – to feel for our interdependence while also finding our edges.