Are you cooped up at home with your partner, housemates, family or all by yourself? Do you find yourself dreading weeks of isolation, fear, confusion, and loneliness? Are you feeling hopeless about being in such close proximity?
Join us for a free 90-minute webinar from Amanda, Josh, and Nicole of "Getting the Support You Need" to learn some simple but powerful strategies for keeping you connected and grounded in these times of “social distancing.”
Just because you can’t gather in-person doesn’t mean you have to feel isolated and alone. And just because you're cooped up with the same people doesn't mean you have to settle for constant conflict and tension. We want to help you connect to your innate capacity for resilience and identify some ways to strengthen your ability to access support.
We’ll guide you through a few simple exercises, hold space for some collective mourning, and offer some wisdom from the work we’ve been doing around building virtual community for years now. There will also be singing, movement, reflection, small group time, and sharing of additional resources.
Registration is required. The webinar is free if you attend live and a recording of the webinar will be available to non-attendees for purchase.
REGISTRATION LINK:
https://airtable.com/shr9aauOWF7Z3PJB2
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT US:
"I have deeply appreciated how you collaborate and work together and support each other in facilitation. It speaks volumes to me about how to radically and wholly share space and power with each other."
"I really appreciate the way you facilitate connection among class members. Also how your co-facilitation models connection."
FACILITATORS
Amanda Blaine is a white, cisgendered, straight, double-Ivy-League-educated, middle class, Jewish woman. And she’s hellbent on using every ounce of her privilege to leverage change. She wants to support you to learn the skills that make the difference between “heartbreaking waste of time” and “heart-opening, get-lots-of-important-shit-done-together collaboration.” She makes her home on Vashon Island, occupied Puyallup land near Seattle, Washington.”
Nicole Bauman is a white, middle class, queer, genderqueer, farmer, healer, facilitator, movement builder and parent, rooted in community and organizing in the Rust Belt city of Elkhart, IN (occupied Potawatomi territory). Nonviolent Communication has been an empowering tool for Nicole's own personal healing and transformation, and has also increased her capacity to show up more skillfully to communication, conflict and collaboration interpersonally and within the movement. Nicole’s embodiment and teaching of this work is deeply shaped and informed by her own parenting journey, as well as years of work as a birth doula and yoga teacher, and a decade of living in an intentional community.
Josh Blaine is a community song leader and organizer based out of Austin, TX (occupied Numunu and Tikan'watic territory) who's found that unlearning his patterns of white and male supremacy is best done in community. Since the Fall of 2017, he's been organizing other men who are committed to undoing male domination patterns by leveraging the tools of nonviolent communication as a backbone of the work.