Community Care and Repair Series for climate and social justice activists Hosted by the Necessary Trouble Collective, with support from Building Belonging, Community Care & Repair (CC&R) is a series of bi-weekly online learning and practice sessions to build the skills and ...

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Text on a purple patterned background: The Gifts of Collaboration May 12 What do we mean when we say we want collaboration? How can that collaboration welcome difference? In this session, we will present some personal practices that will support collaboration, as well as the ways that collaboration can meet our needs and the needs of our communities.

Text on a brick patterned background: Basics for Collaborating Through a Nonviolent Lens May 26 How can we invite all different kinds of people to collaborate? What means will make collaboration fruitful for every participant? This session will present technical and practical skills to facilitate collaboration, some of which include making agreements, checking in, and retaining clarity of purpose.

Test on a green patterned background: How to Make Room for the Relational when Collaborating June 9 How can we continue to care for each other when working together? What can we do to acknowledge important moments and make room for varied experiences and perspectives? This session will present skills to care for relationships while working together, including how to make room for difference and listening to all voices.

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Text on a blue patterned background: Community Care & Repair Spring 2025

Text on a yellow patterned background: Introduction to the Conflict Ecosystem March 31 What causes conflict? How can we intervene to diffuse or disrupt conflict in the community before it becomes entrenched? This session will present a model of conflict based on unmet needs, as well as strategies to identify those needs and attend to conflict.

Text on a blue patterned background: Coming Together Through Conflict April 14 How can communities bolster themselves through conflict? In a culture bent on avoiding conflict until it tears the community apart, how can we recentre disagreement productively? This session will present interventions that can make conflict a site of growth and increased connection.

Text on a coral background: Managing When Conflict Leads to Disconnection April 28 How does the community continue its work if relationships break down? How do systemic hierarchies interact with those in our organisations? This session will apply Nonviolent Communication principles to situations where repair and restoration are not achievable, and methods for working together anyway.

Learn more about this spring's Community Care & Repair sessions, and don't forget to register in advance!

Community Care and Repair Series for climate and social justice activists Hosted by the Necessary Trouble Collective, with support from Building Belonging, Community Care & Repair (CC&R) is a series of bi-weekly online learning and practice sessions to build the skills and ...

Our popular Community Care & Repair program is back on March 31. In this six session series, we will introduce the conflict ecosystem as well as nonviolent approaches to collaboration.

Find out more and register on our Sutra website: communitycareandrepair.sutra.co