RELATIONAL WORLDBUILDING + LEARNING AS LIBERATION

The aim of this training is to prepare creatives, organizers, + leaders to shape curriculums + intellectual-imaginative spaces that facilitate community healing, critical thinking, and socio-cultural change.

This 8-week comprehensive training emerges from a profound engagement with intersectional feminist epistemologies + praxes of relational worldbuilding. Each virtual class will be inspired by the work of intellectual ancestors who have uniquely contributed to artistic, literary, and political movements.

bell hooks. June Jordan. adrienne maree brown. Audre Lorde. Donna Haraway. These women provide us with frameworks to develop our own embodied politics + ways of being together. They have let it be known— the way we gather + learn + dialogue together matters.

We are here to re-design alternative sites of knowledge + cultural production as collective offerings for expansive-resistance. We believe that feminist facilitation is a calling to be of service to education, growth, + justice for all.

By the end of this training, you will have designed a curriculum and/or series of events, grounded in your personal ethics, skills, + local community needs.

Join us for 2 months of experimental expansion to initiate or deepen your facilitation practice—

Training dates: May 31st—JuLY 19

Pre-sale registration ends April 30

Class Modules

  1. ETHICS AS WORLDBUILDING

  2. EMBODIED SYSTEMS AWARENESS

  3. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY

  4. RELATIONAL POLITICS

  5. POETICS OF IDENTITY

  6. CURRICULUM AS STORYTELLING

  7. DESIGNING CLASS FLOW

  8. FINAL PRESENTATIONS + FEEDBACK

Learning Objectives

· Learn the difference between facilitation + teaching

· Develop guiding ethics + principles for your unique facilitation style

· Discover pedagogical approaches for critical thinking

· Engage feminist epistemologies + praxes to develop creative facilitation strategies

· Adapt your offerings to present-day political challenges + energetic community needs

· Expand emotional awareness + leadership tools for relational attunement

· Situate your work within fractal ecosystems change

· Design a course curriculum and/or series of events for diverse learning styles

Creative Possibilities

ideas for what participants might design through this training—

*A book club membership

*Ceremonies + rituals for communal healing

*Curating a multi-disciplinary gallery show for community dialogue

*Hosting an intimate film festival + panel talk

*Virtual workshops + courses

*Wild plant foraging + tea ceremony

*Intersectional embodiment tools for a holistic retreat

*Alternative sites for community learning + local political organization

++ more…

Feminist Frameworks—

“Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place where visions of theory and praxis come together. The heartbeat of critical thinking is the longing to know—to understand how life works.”

—bell hooks

“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.”

—Donna Haraway

Hello my loves,

Ella here. I wanted to include an intimate invitation for those of you feeling the call to sign-up for this training.

Whether it’s a barely-noticeable hum,

Or a resonant-clear in your heart,

I welcome you into this space.

When I started teaching in 2020, I read off of elaborate scripts I had written on my laptop. I am—at my core—an introvert, a homebody. Teaching was not something I had ever envisioned for myself. But the call to share knowledge + build connection around that knowledge, was stronger than my lack of preparation.

Today, I am wrapping up a year-long teaching fellowship at Harvard University, where I’ve been refining the craft of facilitation in an academic setting. This experience, alongside my own space-holding virtually + internationally, has finally prepared me to share this facilitation training with you all. I am eager to entangle in thought + feeling, to bathe in the nourishing words of our feminist intellectual ancestors, and to build new worlds for growth + healing— together.

See you soon, in the Zoom room,

E.