De-escalation 101: Finding Your Protest Role

Join us on Thursday, July 3nd at 5PM PST / 8PM PST!

In a time where we’re protesting for justice from a place of love, we’re asking the question, “How can our movements open hearts?” when each of us is indispensable…and insufficient

There’s a lot to protest about and we need more people empowered to play their role to sustain our movements. You may want to go to a protest or vigil or march but feel scared or unsure on how to show up. Are protests inherently violent? Can nonviolence really create change? What would I do if a counter-protestor starts yelling in my face? How can I be centered when I am face to face with an officer in riot gear? Wherever you are in these questions, there is a role for you to be part of creating a more just and loving world.

In this one hour training, we will explore the orienting themes of respect and dignity of all people, intervention vs. self care, and collective safety when it comes to protests and organizing.

Meet Our Instructor; Angela Kim is a Visionary Organizing and Kingian Nonviolence facilitator-trainer working towards a world where we have increased capacities to sit with our own and each other’s complexities. Angela stewards community containers where participants can share grief, practice conflict skills, and be co-opted into emergence inspired by the erotic, the intuitive, the divine, and the more-than-human.