Afternoon Sessions

Facilitated by:
Stephanie Roades

Audience:
All - Open to Everyone

Description:
Now more than ever, it’s going to take community to keep each other safe and minimize harm. No one is born with these skills; it takes lifelong learning and practice to keep the tools in your harm reduction toolbox sharp. Whether you’ve attended similar workshops before or this is your first time, this is a space for everyone to learn something new.

Bystander Intervention De-escalation training will focus on ways to intervene in public instances of racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-Trans, ICE raids and other forms of oppressive interpersonal violence and harassment while considering the safety of all parties. The physical and vocal practice of various strategies is designed to change social norms and encourage people to find ways to interrupt violence and prevent further harm. This workshop includes a learning segment of tips and strategies, how to document, knowing your rights as an intervener, and practice scenarios constructed on ways to show up and support a diversity of identities, both as the intervener and the person experiencing harm. 

Important Note: This session ends at 3:00PM

Facilitated by:
Cynthia Lin

Audience:
All - Open to Everyone

Description:
This will be an introductory session to grow your facilitation skills! We will focus on learning and practicing the fundamentals of facilitating meetings, in ways that support you to reflect on and ground in your own leadership, power, and vision for racial justice. We will cover and practice with: the arc of a process, embodied presence to hold the container and tend to power, and nitty-gritty tips. 

Facilitation is a cross-cutting core competency that is essential to making solidarity, collective power, and transformation both possible and palpably felt - including inside of the actions, practices, experiments, and networks that advance racial justice. Starting from the very basic and concretely useful skill of facilitating meetings can support folks to reflect on and grow in their relational skills and facilitative leadership/presence overall.

Facilitated by:
Alinne Ramirez and Sol Kelley-Jones

Audience:
All - Open to Everyone

Description:
The escalating violence and repression against migrants we have seen this year requires a community response. This session will offer multiple practical and hands-on ways to be in solidarity with migrants in Wisconsin. Building on the decades of organizing that Voces de la Frontera has been doing with migrants, and building on the multiple pronged approach they have developed in response to the current anti-immigrant tactics present in our communities, participants will be invited to choose an area of solidarity they would like to engage with. We will explore specific areas of action such as in the realms of  advocacy, mutual aid needs for legal and labor supports, tangible tactics for defense of migrants, engaging faith communities, or engaging organizations or businesses to act in solidarity with migrants. Participants will come away with concrete ways they can continue to support migrants in their communities.

Facilitated by:
Garrett Denning

Audience:
White People

Description:
White neurodivergent folx often boast a "strong sense of justice" as part of what brings us to social justice movements, yet often we find ourselves unprepared for what that work looks like and how messy it can be. Left unchecked, this leads to poking others' wounds and even hiding behind our identities when confronted with our actions. But it doesn't have to play out this way. In this experience, we will reframe this "sense of justice" and other neurodivergent traits to dream and reimagine what liberation, community, and solidarity could look like. Participants can draw on our own individual neurodivergent traits, interests, and wisdoms to reshape our social justice journeys by determining what could serve the cause and what could harm it if not watched out for.  Through this work we can start working to imagine a better world, rooted in liberation and defended through uncolonized and unfiltered neurodivergent "chaos." While this workshop is tailored for neurodivergent folx who hold whiteness, these skills can apply to anyone with at least one dominant identity who wishes to better be in community at a time where everything is exhausting and o no one who wishes to be part of it will be turned away if there is room. We also honor all definitions of neurodivergence and journeys of connecting to neurodivergent identities. Self diagnosis is real and will always be honored.

Facilitated by:
Mya Williams and Sam Jeschke

Audience:
Youth Only

Description:
Honoring the theme of Get Together: Becoming the Liberation Ecosystem, we invite all youth attendees to join us in the Youth Room: a dedicated space for youth to relax, create, and share their collective experiences in and out of school. The session will open with a Welcome Circle, facilitated by Bayview Community Center’s Restorative Justice Club, and the remaining time will be dedicated to youth-led activities such as art, music, journaling, or even just resting. This space has an open-door policy, so youth may enter at any time if they feel they need a break from Summit experiences, or they are welcome to stay the entire afternoon. The youth of Madison, and all across the world, work hard day in and day out to speak up for themselves, for others, and for their community– this space is dedicated to honoring that they, too, need spaces to unwind and care for themselves.