This experience is fueled by the assumption that participants will have the capacity to nurture freedom dreams and come together to embrace what we are called to do in our “aftertimes.” Each generation has a legacy of healers, organizers and ancestors that have paved a way to ensure that our collective humanity is actualized. We will welcome participants with…”Kasserian Ingera?” We will hold the weight of the charges that hold change, listen, reflect, notice, pause, engage in truth-telling.
Together, we will grapple with ways to infuse “family integrity” and abolitionist thinking into the work of cultivating approaches, practices and behaviors that embody what we know prevention needs to mean for families—justice. We invite you to embrace JUSTICE as an acknowledgement of one’s humanness. Proactively pursuing healing systematic harm, while repairing fractured relationships from the past, equity of voice and personhood.
As you enter this container, we ask that you consider removing “what we can’t do” from your vocabulary. We also ask that you remove the “What abouts?” from your memory. To challenge us to be BIG in our quest to think culturally versus strategically, we will walk you through a nuanced way of understanding what the principled struggle for “justice doing” looks like in public. We invite you to dream accountability and bravery as we embrace an immersive container that aims for impact over outcome.
Participants will walk away with a clear understanding of:
• What abolition, justice, liberation and belonging mean for growing the way for our work ahead.
• The essence of gold mining.
• The ingredients for belonging.
• Where to make impact vs. how to make impact.
• Strategizing with history.
• Truth and reconciliation.