This Wednesday, December 6th!
Learn tools to facilitate connection, collective power and complexity-capacity at our Art of Relational Facilitation Symposium
Our people and our movements are under increasing pressure in these times. We are committed to helping our communities and our movements build power and their capacity to withstand fractures.
If you are a facilitator working in support of movements or organizations for healing, education, justice and liberation, we'd love for you to join us this Wednesday, December 6th!
Our program will feature sessions on the art of relational container setting, building collective power, embracing complexity, and navigating difference.
Come join our growing practice community and help shape and strengthen the field of relational culture building. Join us for individual sessions or the full program as your schedule allows. Recordings of the full event are available at registration.
With love,
The Courage Team
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Session One
10:15 Eastern | 3:15pm UTC
Setting the Relational Container
with Maytik Avirama and Daniela Fontaine
Join us for our first session as we situate the work of building relational culture in these times of global rupture and realignment. Together we will reflect on relational compassion and care, and how to hold space for and reclaim belonging and community in the face of disconnection, polarization, and rupture.
Session Two
11:30am Eastern | 4:40pm UTC
Building Relational Power With and Within
with Monika L. Son, Ph.D.
Systems of oppression live in our bodies and are reproduced through our cultural practices, influencing how we think about, relate to, and practice power. As relational facilitators we are aware of the different ways that power shows up in space in our bodies, families, communities, institutions, nature. Together we will explore our relationships to power and how to deepen our sense of power with(in), in service of strengthening relational culture.
Session Three
1:00pm Eastern | 5:00pm UTC
Strengthening Our Movements for Justice and Liberation
with Leila McCabe, Cynthia Ong and Aurash Khawarzad
The work of building relational culture can be challenging, especially when we encounter setbacks, differences in ideology, political losses and relational ruptures. How can we build organizations and movements that are resilient to these challenges and more resistant to fracturing under times of stress? Join us for a panel session with relational movement leaders who are engaging in martial arts practice as a means of building personal and collective strength, community solidarity and a capacity for engaging conflict. These panelists will also address some of the nuance around self and community defense, as well as the ways in which martial arts and other somatic trainings have influenced their relational approach to movement work.
Session Four
2:30pm Eastern | 6:30pm UTC
On Complexity and Collective Power
with Katrine Bregengaard
As facilitators, we are constantly navigating tensions that if not tended to, can lead to fracture and divide. In this session we will practice the art of holding complexity and explore what capacities are needed to hold and shift tensions towards collective transformation.
Session Five
3:45pm Eastern | 7:45pm UTC
Breakout Sessions
We are so excited to offer participants an opportunity to choose their own closing breakout session at the symposium! You’ll be able to choose from sessions including:
- “Working with Conflict Across Differences and Tensions”, with Jen Sandler and Olivia Espinoza of the Stoke Collective;
- “Strengthening Relationality with the More-than-human World”, with Andrea González Andino of the Ecoversities Alliance;
- “Forward Stance: Building a Strong Justice Movement” with Leila McCabe of the Beloved Communities Network; and
- “How Might We Facilitate and Experience Care Within Colonial Systems of Education?” with Wayne Serebrin of the University of Manitoba
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Care & Action Circle | Monday, December 4 @12p ET
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All community members are invited to join us for a care and action circle in which we will provide space for conversation, witnessing, and reciprocal care. At the end of our circle, we will devote time to calling and emailing our representatives.
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RelationSHIFT Sessions | Weekly on Thursdays
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Over the next several weeks we will be focusing our free, public RelationSHIFT sessions to support us in resourcing, grounding, and accessing sustainable power as we work together to save lives. We will explore ways in which stress and trauma can pull us out of connection and presence, and can impact our ability to keep showing up. We'll share specific practices for working with freeze, anger, overwhelm and checking out.
Join us!
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Spiritual Activism Workshop | February 10th
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Join us online to explore how building cultures of practice rooted in care and justice can help us navigate the perceived tensions between spirituality and activism, or "inner" and "outer" transformation.
In this embodied workshop, will pay particular attention to the tensions between "me" and "we", personal and collective liberation, being and doing, and "center" and "margins".
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Succulence: A Healing and Integration Program for Facilitators | Launches February 20th
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Succulence is a healing and integration program for relational facilitators, coaches, trainers, teachers, educators, leaders and others who work to make our organizations, communities and movements for healing, justice and liberation more resilient. The program acknowledges the toll of care-work on our relational tenders and that we, too, need spaces where we can show up fully in service of our own healing and integration. Fellowships available!
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Building Relational Power Worskhop | February 29th
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Back by popular demand! Join us for an experiential introductory session and learn tools to deepen your personal, interpersonal and collective relational practice. Leave with tools that you can immediately apply in your relationships and your communities of practice.
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Spring Relational Facilitators Program | Launches March 14th
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This 11-week program, which meets weekly on Thursdays from 10-12:30pm Eastern, is designed to help facilitators learn to lead and build compassionate, counter-oppressive, healing-centered and visionary trainings and practice communities based on our model, CourageRISE.
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