Public Trainings
Reckoning and Restorative Justice:
a six-week exploration of harm, accountability,
and healing (2021 dates TBD)
We have all caused harm, we have all been targets of harm. What are our lived histories within harm? What are its origins in our lives and communities? What cycles of harm-doing have we inherited?
Accountability is an active, ongoing, and embodied practice. What do accountable relationships look and feel like? What disrupts our ability to take accountability?
Healing and repair are not linear. How do we make room for shame, rage, doubt, and fear in our processes? How do we work with incompletion? How do we reclaim trust in ourselves, our needs, our timing, and our right to wholeness?
Reckoning and Restorative Justice:
BIPOC Affinity Immersion (begins April 29th)
This training is only available to BIPOC folks who have attended STRONGHOLD's reckoning & restorative justice training OR restorative & racial justice stewardship training, formerly known as facilitation skills for restorative and racial justice.
STRONGHOLD believes in restorative justice as a model that can repair harm at the individual, community, and systemic levels. we also recognize that racism and white supremacy are forms of historical and ongoing harm that compound and contribute to the breakdowns we experience in our communities and organizations.
Within race-based affinity groups, we will turn our attention toward our cultural inheritance and the ways our racial conditioning lives both inside of us and also expresses itself (often unconsciously) through us.
Our work will be guided by personal and community accountability, shame resilience, and ritualized truth-telling. together we will move toward the conditions that allow us to show up rooted in our wholeness, dignity, and deep agency for our communities and processes.
Reckoning and Restorative Justice: BIPOC Affinity Immersion (begins April 29th)
This training is only available to BIPOC folks who have attended STRONGHOLD's reckoning & restorative justice training OR restorative & racial justice stewardship training, formerly known as facilitation skills for restorative and racial justice.
STRONGHOLD believes in restorative justice as a model that can repair harm at the individual, community, and systemic levels. we also recognize that racism and white supremacy are forms of historical and ongoing harm that compound and contribute to the breakdowns we experience in our communities and organizations.
Within race-based affinity groups, we will turn our attention toward our cultural inheritance and the ways our racial conditioning lives both inside of us and also expresses itself (often unconsciously) through us.
Our work will be guided by personal and community accountability, shame resilience, and ritualized truth-telling. together we will move toward the conditions that allow us to show up rooted in our wholeness, dignity, and deep agency for our communities and processes.
With Love For Us: A BIPOC Gathering for Community Care (2021 dates TBD)
we are each other’s harvest, we are each other’s business,
we are each other’s magnitude and bond
- gwendolyn brooks
we are organizers. workers. learners. parents.
envisioners. children. supporters. teachers.
creators. elders. protesters. healers.
we are living.
mourning.
surviving.
healing.
thriving.
this is an offering to BE with one another, in community and rooted in radical love, so that we may share in the ceremony of gathering, the wisdom of reflecting, and the embodiment of restoration.
during our time together we will:
center and ground
share the really, really of how we are
have silent reflection
witness and be witnessed
Collective Practice to End White Supremacy
“We will not end white-body supremacy—or any form of human evil—by trying to tear it to pieces. Instead, we can offer people better ways to belong and better things to belong to.”
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands
As white people, we are called not just to fight racism, but to take radical responsibility for it. This is a moment to summon our collective outrage and channel it into courageous self-examination. This is painful and critical work. And, we don't need to do it alone. We can belong to each other in our shared commitment to transform the legacy of white supremacy. We can rewrite the social contracts of whiteness to center accountability and action rather than silence. This takes willingness, rigor and practice. This takes heart.
Learn more & register for the 2-hr Intro Session (this is a prerequisite for the 8-week series) (monthly, every 2nd Wednesday, 5:30-7:30 PST)
8-week series beginning April 21st, 2021. 5:00-7:00 PST