Recontextualizing Nonviolence will offer 8 different topics.  You do not have to take every session in order to engage with the material. There is an option to complete the 8-part workshop series as well that will earn you a certificate of completion. Please fill out this form for any of the topic dates, outlined below, you wish to attend. You only need to fill this form once.

The series is designed to interrogate and transform understandings of nonviolence. Violence is humankind’s oldest enemy. Before there was technology, race, gender, or even the concept of America, there was violence. Over time, violence has evolved to wear many faces, speak many languages, and infiltrate every system and structure around us. We are all victims and vestiges of this violence.

This series acknowledges and analyzes white supremacy as a primary vehicle for violence. White supremacy is not just an ideology; it is a regime, a culture, a religion, a framework, and a mechanism for harm. It shapes the ways we see ourselves, each other, our work, and the world we move through. This workshop series centers the belief that nonviolence must be just as adaptive, expansive, and powerful as the violence it seeks to resist.

Using lessons from Avatar: The Last Airbender, metaphors of vampirism and viruses, constructions inspired by The Wizard of Oz, and intersectional historical analysis, we will examine white supremacist violence across personal, relational, institutional, and societal dimensions to develop tools to intervene with care, accountability, and radical imagination. This is a space for critical reflection, community dialogue, and skill-building. We will challenge conceptions of nonviolence as solely being passive or quiet. Instead, we will explore nonviolence as confrontation, disruption, sacred rage, and collective healing.

We are all affected by white supremacy; thus, this workshop is for everyone.

If you are:

• interested in social justice work
• a scholar of race or anti-racism
• interested in nonviolence work
• an educator, organizer, artist, healer, or cultural worker
• working in a nonprofit, corporation, community, or organization
• unknowledgeable or uncomfortable with race, white supremacy, resistance, or violence
• a curious mind interested in storytelling, metaphor, and pop culture as tools for resistance and liberation