Before I could demand that others listen to me,
I had to listen to myself to discover my identity.
- bell hooks
Join STRONGHOLD community for a day with our and others’ stress shapes. Our stress shapes are embodied strategies that live in our nervous systems and behavior patterns. We may have inherited or developed these strategies early-on in response to our environments and oftentimes they keep us from living into our values and participating in relationships in the ways we want to. We will spend time getting familiar with these shapes, including numbness, silence, perfectionism, isolation, and explore embodied strategies for healing and transformation rooted in truth-telling, accountability, “calling-in,” somatic and nervous system regulation, and mutual aid and care. We do this through our commitments to addressing embodied impacts of historical and ongoing harms, racial tensions, and conflict. We practice tuning into our bodies, nervous systems, and intuition; we practice speaking truths, being with discomfort, receiving feedback, and living into grounded and relational accountability.
STRONGHOLD honors it's lineage of restorative justice in Indigenous practice and prison abolition. At STRONGHOLD, we practice relational ways of being through embodiment, emergence, generative conflict, and moving at the speed of trust.
Learnings from this day can be applied to workplace settings, work with youth and adults, and community and family settings.
What to expect:
- We will spend time listening and speaking in circle.
- We will examine systems (structural racism, punitive justice, etc.) as well as how we have internalized those systems.
- We will pay attention and attend to the dynamics that are present in our circle.
- We will slow down, listen, and “move at the speed of trust.”
DETAILS:
when: March 23, 2024; 10am-5pm.
where: Oakland, CA
who: STRONGHOLD facilitators Ashley Kelly and Rachel Schaffran
cost: $400 - After completing this form we will send you an Eventbrite link to register and pay.
*Please let us know if you would like to attend this training and the cost is prohibitive for you. Our scholarship fund prioritizes BIPOC and system impacted folks.
*We welcome your contributions of any amount beyond the cost of the training in support of our scholarship fund.
If you have any questions about the training please email rachel@wearestronghold.org. We look forward to learning in community with you!
:: WE ARE STRONGHOLD ::
STRONGHOLD believes in restorative justice as a model that can repair harm at the individual, community, and systemic levels. we recognize that systems of oppression including white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, settler colonialism are forms of historical and ongoing harm that compound and contribute to the breakdowns we experience in our communities.
our pedagogy is rooted in restorative and transformative justice, and a commitment to collective liberation. our practice centers healing,; draws on folks’ lived experience,; invites real-time self-reflection and interpersonal practice with regards to harm and accountability,; and emphasizes relationships rather than self-reliance amidst conflict.
