Strategizing for Collective Care and Protection While Honoring Our Limits

Note: Purchasing a ticket will give you access to BOTH sessions (session 1 is on 12/8 and session 2 is on 12/15). Upon registration, the facilitator will send you a calendar invitation to both sessions in this series!

We are living through a particularly oppressive period of degenerative chaos and conflict. For those of us seeking to translate our principles of equity and justice into our everyday lives, we must tenderly but courageously confront an important tension that exists between: (1) doing what we can to materially care for and protect marginalized peoples; and (2) existing within the bounds of our own bodyminds and capacities so that we can sustain our commitments. In order to make space for our own care in a way that is not rooted in hyperindividualism and selfishness, we must organize this work as a part of an interdependent community of practice.

In December, anti-oppression facilitator and coach Yejin Lee (she/they) of Jeong Coaching & Consulting LLC will be offering a two-part workshop to support participants in finding responsive and strategic ways to show up in “the work”™ without disposing of their own needs.

Session 1: Facilitated Processing Space
Monday, December 8th from 3-4:30pm EST
Alternate date: Wednesday, December 10th from 3-4:30pm EST

The first part of this workshop series will be a facilitated processing space for the group to collectively ground ourselves in the political realities of the moment, and in the possibilities and limits of our minds, hearts, bodies, and efforts. In order to redefine care from a relational and trauma-informed lens, Yejin will help us to:

• Free ourselves from the hyperindividualistic treatment of “self-care” in order to make space for interdependent organizing;
• Discuss what it means to center the needs of marginalized peoples while honoring our own bounds and limits;
• Identify ways each of us can offer care and protection in these times.

Session 2: Workshop with Framework & Tools to Strategize for Collective Care
Monday, December 15th from 3-5pm EST
Alternate date: Wednesday, December 17th from 3-4:30pm EST

The second part of this series will focus on offering practical frameworks, tools and processes to build an interdependent web of care and protection that honors both our expansive abilities and our limits. During this session, Yejin’s objectives for us are:

• To increase our capacity to center consent and utilize trauma-informed practices when developing strategies of care and protection;
• To learn how to surface necessary data & information about external organizational & human factors and internal/personal considerations to set responsive strategies;
• To build capacity in translating data & information into strategies that center the needs of multiply-marginalized people without treating our own labor in extractive and violent ways;
• To support participants in understanding what type of exhaustion they are experiencing, and what kind of rest they need;
• To unveil additional considerations when identifying and honoring our limits as individuals (e.g. neurodivergence, chronic illness, other compounding marginalizations, accumulated fatigue/burnout, making room for joy);
• To explore how to build an interdependent web of care and protection in practical ways (culminating in the development of a menu of collective care actions/activities).

Participants will receive robust follow-up materials from Yejin following the workshop series, including a comprehensive and tailored workbook to help this community translate their learnings into concrete practices.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Backup Dates: In case of emergency, illness, or technical difficulty, Yejin has scheduled backup dates for both sessions of this series. The backup date for session one is Wednesday, December 10th from 3:00-4:30pm EST, and the backup date for session two is Wednesday, December 17th from 3-5pm EST. Please put a hold on your calendar just in case!
• Recording: These sessions will be recorded and made available to all registrants for 60 days following the event. Captions will be enabled, and the transcript will also be sent along with the recording. Since this is taking place via Zoom Meeting and will encourage interactivity, folks will have the option to request pausing the recording before they speak. The chat will also be shared, but Yejin will scrub everyone’s names from the document for added safety.
• Pricing: Yejin utilizes a justice approach to pricing, and trusts everyone to honestly locate what they are able to spend. 30 free community tickets are available to multiply-marginalized sweeties, and more seats will become available with every purchase of a “sponsor” type ticket.
• Follow-Up: All registrants will receive a comprehensive follow-up message, which includes the recording/transcript/chat/slide deck, additional resources (e.g. articles, podcast episodes), and a workbook to support internalization and application of the session.