Creating Freedom Movements is a training program that teaches participants to build community, cross-issue solidarity, and infrastructures of justice and joy by moving from cultures of separation and domination to cultures of connection and reciprocity. CFM‘s 18-month cohort was designed for emerging and established grassroots leaders, fostering deep relationships and providing participants with resources supporting sustainability while promoting self-care and joy to keep the work going in the long term.
CFM provides cohort participants an opportunity to study current exploitative and oppressive systems (white supremacy, colonialism, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism), to recognize how these systems manifest in lived experiences, and to develop the creativity, practical skills, and healing capacities to collaborate with others to create alternatives.
Workshops cover four broad areas: Social Movement History & Analysis (understanding of the major systems that have created, and that continue to recreate, injustice, exploitation and oppression), Healing Practices (nutrition and herbs, ancestor work, grief and trauma response techniques, self-compassion practice, etc.), The Arts (the role of art in social change, developing creative and expressive capacities, etc.), and Practical Skills (community organizing, funding justice work ,nonviolent direct action, etc.). This sometimes challenging yet deeply rewarding work is necessary to build the collective power and mutual understanding needed to create the world we want to live in.
Website: Creating Freedom Movements