Family lineages are complex and deeply influence our lives, usually invisibly. We often suffer on behalf of our families and our people or origin in order to prove our love and loyalty. Yet that’s the last thing our well ancestors want for us in order to connect and belong. Using experiential Family Constellation exercises (and other modalities), we'll peek into hidden dynamics in the family lineage, and begin an ancestral, inter-generational and cultural healing process. Come with an open mind and be willing to receive insight about yourself in relation to your ancestry.

This workshop will cover the process of creating a Surfacing Tension process for the Movement Generation collective. Movement Generation is a justice and ecology project that inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture. Through their shared governance structure, their development of the Just Transition framework, and through collective practice in co-stewarding a land project with the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, Movement Generation is in practice of pushing boundaries in the transformation of theory into practice through individual and collective care. They see a world rooted in the belief that by bringing ourselves into right relationship with seeds, soil, each other and the ecosystems that hold us, we can create a better way forward.


This workshop will uplift the important dialogue around the inevitability and reality of organizational and relational tensions and conflicts in doing this justice work. It will share Surface Tension practices that they co-created with Raj Escondo to name, dialogue, and address organizational and interpersonal challenges. It will also highlight opportunities to create bridges from organizational challenges to possibility.

“Spiritual Care Work in the Age of Conspirituality” is a lecture that explores what it means to cultivate a liberatory, decolonial spiritual care work practice at a time when conspirituality, spiritual appropriation, and the “crunchy to alt-right pipeline” proliferates. Throughout, we will critically examine the pitfalls of contemporary wellness culture and address how “settler spirituality” poses a deeply concerning public health threat. We will also explore how spiritual care work has shaped histories of resistance, and how we can wield these practices as effective tools in our collective efforts towards community care and liberation today.

“Unmapped Constellations: Using Science Fiction to Plot Anti-Fascist Futures” is a dynamic, 45-minute workshop that invites participants to wield speculative fiction as a liberation tool for collective healing. Beginning with a framing lecture, we examine how stories become blueprints for power and can be composted to seed new, anti-fascist imaginaries. With group conversations and interactive activities, participants rewrite dystopian scenarios into brief, liberatory futures and identify real-world policy or cultural shifts. The session culminates in a commitment ritual, transforming collective imagination into actionable pledges that extend the anti-fascist work beyond the room.

This interactive workshop will explore the more-than-decade long history of organizing led by Black families and the Black Organizing Project in Oakland to pass the George Floyd Resolution, which abolished police in OUSD schools. We will uncover the impact of policing and anti-Black violence on the health and well being of Black children, and abolitionist & environmental justice strategies to nourish the health of Black children and their families (for parents, educators, healthcare providers, community members, organizers, etc).