
Liberation Learning Series
Transforming present-day helplessness into collective action and belonging.
Bi-Weekly Online Learning Series
Tuesdays from June 10 to September 30
Series Description
Within the Intentional Communities movement, we consistently ask ourselves: How can we foster culture change? We know that the dominant culture of hyper individualism is the root of deep harm, injustice, and dysfunction in our society. To create a more just world, we must shift to a cooperative culture. So how do we do this?
There are countless ways to engage with culture change, from personal growth and healing to collective actions, from resisting dysfunctional systems that cause feelings of helplessness to nurturing community resilience for a greater sense of belonging
The Liberation Learning Series explores a handful of these “cooperative culture access points.”
Throughout nine webinars, we will learn from and join in conversation with activists and community-builders who champion culture change; from nervous-system regulation, anti-racism work, and community grieving, to re-imagining our relationship with economy and resource-sharing.
The Liberation Learning Series will provide you with opportunities to acknowledge our collective uncertainty, engage in often challenging conversations, and inspire diverse ways of taking action- all igniting a sense of liberation towards cooperative culture.
Join us in becoming a culture-change catalyst—one conversation, one connection, one community at a time.
Schedule of Events
Finding Belonging Amidst Cultural Severance with Lydia Violet Harutoonian
🗓️Tuesday June 10, 12pm-2pm Central
Join us for this song-filled and interactive webinar that draws from Lydia Violet’s Tending the Bones curriculum to tend diasporic healing and find wisdom that lives in our ancestral and cultural reconnection.

The Somatics of Resistance and Resilience with Lux Gypsum
🗓️Tuesday June 24, 12pm-2pm Central
Learn to work with your nervous system through practical, easy-to-understand teachings and embodied practices that will build your capacity to act rather than react.

Solidarity Economy for People and Planet with Emily Kawano
🗓️Tuesday July 8, 12pm-2pm Central
Join author and cofounder of the Wellspring Cooperative, Emily Kawano, in an interactive presentation where we learn to reimagine an economical framework grounded in solidarity, democracy, equity, sustainability, and pluralism. Together we will articulate a post-capitalist system with support from real world examples.

Dark and Tender: Breaking Barriers to Embrace Closeness with Aaron Johnson
🗓️Tuesday July 22, 12pm-2pm Central
Join us for an experiential workshop, including song and writing, as we explore the practices introduced by The Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project in the short film Dark and Tender, to dismantle the Black Brute archetype and barriers for platonic closeness across races.

Community Grieving for Greater Connection A Panel-Led Discussion
🗓️Tuesday August 5, 12pm-2pm Central
Join us to untangle the painful yet powerful work of processing grief within community in this panel discussion with LaUra Schmidt, Jessica Serrante, and Bernadette Pleasant, facilitated by FIC’s Programs Director and community grief-tender, Sabrina Simon.

ZEGG Forum: A Technology for Community Resilience with Debby Sugarman and Sarah Taub
🗓️Tuesday August 19, 12pm-2pm Central
Join us for a hands-on introduction to the ZEGG Forum, a community tool designed to promote transparency, empathy, and understanding. In a time when the world urgently needs tools for authentic relating, the Forum offers a tried and true practice where people share deeply and transform pain into deeper, more meaningful relationships.

More webinars and workshops to be announced soon!
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- Power & Leadership in Community (10-hour pre-recorded course)

