Institutes

Facilitated by:
Bobbie Briggs & Emily Goodbear

Audience:
All- Open to Everyone

Description:
This workshop offers participants an affirming and interactive space to explore the realities of vicarious trauma, particularly in the context of racial justice work. Through guided education, reflective dialogue, and body-based practices, attendees will learn and practice tangible ways to release stress, regulate their emotions, and process the emotional toll of showing up for others. Rooted in the belief that rest is resistance and healing is collective, this session advocates for liberation as a daily practice - not just in external systems, but within ourselves. Participants will engage in self-healing while being held in community, modeling what it means to be part of a liberation ecosystem that centers Solidarity, embodies Mutual Aid through shared tools and care, and commits to Repair by addressing harm, burnout, and over-responsibility. By reclaiming rest, emotional well-being, and nervous system safety as necessary tools, this session moves us closer to becoming the world we’re fighting for - together.

Facilitated by:
Rebecca Hoyt

Audience:
All- Open to Everyone

Description:
This session is about unpacking ableism from its roots in history anti-Blackness, eugenics, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.  We will examine how models of disability are mobilized today to institutionalize, segregate, and disempower people with disabilities.  Often issues of race and gender are not centered in disability spaces and issues of disability are not centered in race and gender-centered spaces.  This session is designed to foster solidarity for stronger movement work.  In this approachable and conversational training, you will learn (and unlearn) different social narratives of disability and how Disabled people have informed their own sense of identity. We'll explore movements rooted in disability rights, the social model of disability and disability justice.

Facilitated by:
Dekila Chungyalpa, Janice Rice, Alejandro Miranda, Roxanne DeLille, Guy Reiter, and Marin “Mark” Denning

Audience:
All- Open to Everyone

Description:
In this experience, we will offer an unapologetic, healing-centered space rooted in storytelling, shared wisdom, and community-building among Black women and others navigating the impacts of white supremacy culture in professional spaces. Through honest dialogue, humor, and reflective exercises, participants will unpack the unspoken rules of "survival" in these environments-examining how racism, silencing, performative allyship, and workplace trauma show up in their daily lives. Our session is grounded in solidarity and mutual aid, centering truth-telling, validation, and collective healing. Participants will leave with tools for navigating harmful systems while also building networks of support, shared accountability, and deeper connection-moving beyond survival toward liberation.

Facilitated by:
Mya Williams, Micah-Jade Stanback, Rudy Bankston, & Sam Jeschke

Audience:
Youth and Educators take priority, but is Open to All Community Members

Description:
Throughout history, the concept of freedom has manifested in various forms across cultures, ranging from dance to visual art to collective social justice movements. Honoring the Summit theme of Get Together: Becoming the Liberation Ecosystem, we invite high school youth, eighth-grade youth, young adults, and K-12 educators to participate in a mixed-media art co-creation that focuses on what freedom looks like, sounds like, and feels like as both individuals and as a community. Co-led by youth from Bayview Community Center, we will explore several forms of media, including painting, music production, and written poetry, to co-create an art exhibition centered on the experiences of youth, young adults, and educators. At the end of the session, there will be a showcase of the different art pieces that were created. With this offering, we hope to create an ecosystem where participants can come together to craft an intricate and beautiful representation of liberation that transcends time, honors our ancestors, ourselves, and future generations to come.

Facilitated by:
April Kigeya and Jaylin Stueber

Audience:
This session is designed for Black women, femmes, and other BIPOC individuals. We also welcome accomplices and aspiring co-conspirators who are ready to listen, learn, and take accountability for dismantling oppressive workplace dynamics.

Description:
In this experience, we will offer an unapologetic, healing-centered space rooted in storytelling, shared wisdom, and community-building among Black women and others navigating the impacts of white supremacy culture in professional spaces. Through honest dialogue, humor, and reflective exercises, participants will unpack the unspoken rules of "survival" in these environments-examining how racism, silencing, performative allyship, and workplace trauma show up in their daily lives. Our session is grounded in solidarity and mutual aid, centering truth-telling, validation, and collective healing. Participants will leave with tools for navigating harmful systems while also building networks of support, shared accountability, and deeper connection-moving beyond survival toward liberation.