Consultation Group for Facilitators
Are you an experienced or brand new mediator, RJ practitioner, or other type of conflict facilitator? Would you like to meet monthly with other facilitators to share experience, resources, and techniques? Would you like a group of practitioners to talk to when you’re stuck on a case? Let’s make it happen. Fill out the form to let me know your availability and wishes and I’ll be in touch before the end of 2021 with details for how to join.
Upcoming Courses!!
Listed in calendar order—there are no requirements about the order these courses are taken, but I find 1 - 2 - 3 order the most helpful if you’re planning to take all of them.
Conflict Skills 1: A Responsive Approach to Conflict
Saturdays 1:00PM EST - 3:00PM EST, January 15 - February 5, 2022 (4 sessions)Sliding scale: $6 - $100 Click here to register
January 15, Session 1: Introduction to Conflict Transformation & Anti-Oppression
January 22, Session 2: Understanding Conflict Dynamics
January 29, Session 3: A Responsive Approach to Conflict
February 5, Session 4: Power Dynamics
Conflict Skills 3: Anti-Oppressive Approaches to (De)Escalation
Sunday 11:00AM EST - 2:00PM EST, February 6, 2022 (1 session)
Sliding scale: $2.50 - $50.00 Click here to register
This course will be offered again in early March 2022 - Date TBD
Conflict Skills 2: Communication in Conflict
Saturdays 1:00PM EST - 3:00PM EST, February 19th & February 26, 2022 (2 sessions)
Sliding Scale: $4 - $80 Click here to register
February 19, Session 1: What is Communication? + Deep Listening
February 26, Session 2: What is Understanding? + Clear Expression
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I am losing my full-time job this month. I am going to try to transition to full-time conflict facilitation, counseling, and learning (such as the courses above). So, I am opening the option of being a paid subscriber to my newsletter. By becoming a paid subscriber ($5/month or $50/year) you will receive no extra benefits, but you will be paying for folks to receive financially accessible conflict support and learning opportunities. If this works out, I’ll be able to reach my original goal of weekly newsletters and free virtual gatherings, rather than sporadic content. Everyone will benefit!
Opportunities to Learn + Act
Book release: Lessons in Liberation a toolkit for abolitionist educators.
Sign the clemency petition for Uhuru B. Rowe who has been imprisoned for 25 years of a 93-year sentence, since he was 18-years-old. More information here.
Meenadchi is offering a day-long workshop on inner-critics and shadows (how we talk to ourselves) on December 18th, and has an offering on decolonizing nonviolent communication and family constellations for BIPOC only. Check out all workshops here.
Friday December 12, 2021: Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups: Skills for Abolitionist Practice, Facilitated by Dean Spade. Register here.
Looking for places to buy gifts this season? Check out these shops:
For Everyone Collective: https://www.foreveryoneco.com/
A shop created by formerly incarcerated individuals, that hires formerly incarcerated individuals to screen print their abolitionist gear—including a location here in my home state of Michigan.
Queer Kwe’s Bead Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/queerkwe
Becca is a talented Anishinaabe artist here in Petoskey, MI and rad human being, making beautiful LGBTQIA+ affirming beadwork.
Beyond Buckskin: https://shop.beyondbuckskin.com/products
An online retailer selling products designed and produced by indigenous creators across the U.S. My favorite thing I’ve purchased from this shop are quill earrings created by Tashina Lee Emery of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians, here in Northern Michigan.
Blackstone Bookstore and Cultural Center: https://www.blackstonebookstore.com/
A Black-owned bookstore here in Ypsilanti, MI—you can order books online and have them shipped. They’re wonderful humans!
Sistah Sci-fi: https://sistahscifi.com/
The only Black woman owned sci-fi-only bookstore, focusing on and celebrating afrofuturism. If you haven’t read N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, Octavia Butler’s Xenogensis trilogy, Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death, or Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts—I highly recommend buying them from this shop if they’re in stock.
Feel free to share shops you want to support, in the comments!