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Practical tips and insights presented by Atom Fire Arts: How do we create nurturing, productive, and transformative spaces for learning, work, and growth? What are the building blocks for sharing space and how can we use them to address our needs as learners and educators?

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Creating Community in Classrooms with Atom Fire Arts

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🎧 We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

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🎧 We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

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In this episode of “Movement Memos,” host Kelly Hayes talks with facilitators Aarati Kasturirangan and Rebecca Subar about how organizers can transform conflict in movement spaces.

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To Transform Conflict in Movements, We Must Learn How to Stay in It Together

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“Trust-building requires risk,” says facilitator Aarati Kasturirangan.

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If students are kept in the dark about what might happen and to whom because of inconsistent, overly harsh, or hard to understand standards of behavior, they will not likely be able to focus on learning. The easy way to resolve this is to dissolve the power dynamics and make decisions together about your shared learning space.

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📓 Logical Consequence, Meaningful Change

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📓 Logical Consequence, Meaningful Change

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Mutual trust, shared agreements and values, and autonomous spaces for self care and problem solving set us up for success with a strong culture. But what we do daily to deal with disruptive or problematic behaviors is vital to maintaining that trust and culture, as is including student voices when addressing issues.

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Given our assumptions about the conditions we are organizing in and the common causes of tension, what are some things to keep in mind as we try to build human-centered, non-punitive accountability practices? How can we evaluate our accountability practices? What are our common goals?

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Members of a group are more likely to work well together when expectations for group participation, roles and responsibilities in the group and decision-making processes are clear. Groups and group structures often evolve over time to meet the changing needs of the group and the larger community of people that the group is accountable to.

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Conflict is a natural, healthy and necessary part of any group dynamic when people are able to practice accountability. Groups that wish to cultivate a culture of accountability should articulate a shared set of practices or norms and embed these in all aspects of the group’s structure and function.

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🎥 Turning Towards Each Other (1.75 hours)

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🎥 Turning Towards Each Other (1.75 hours)

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[Watch the video on YouTube here.] Jovida Ross and Weyam Ghadbian wrote the Turning Towards Each Other Conflict Workbook with the hopes of supporting people working towards social justice to build our collective conflict resilience and strengthen relationships, movements, and collective well being.

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The main goals in restorative conversations are to support each person affected in exploring: the impacts of the incident/harm; what they needed before, during, and after the incident/harm; and what realistic repair looks like.

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🎥 Intro to Restorative Conversations (2 hours)

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🎥 Intro to Restorative Conversations (2 hours)

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[Watch the video on YouTube here.] What is a restorative conversation? How do we ground our conversations in seeing each other's humanity? In this session, we'll reflect on our personal values and restorative justice principles. We'll discuss some restorative questions and how to add your own flair and personality to these questions. Presented by nuri nusrat.

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A helpful tool for groups who are working through conflict and are stuck. This circle is best done with two to eight people, and takes between two and four hours, depending on the people present and their willingness to share.

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Facilitation ensures that everyone gets to participate in a conversation, not just those who feel most comfortable speaking up. This document is meant to create a shared framework and way of approaching facilitation that is not a rigid formula, but rather is grounded in openness, ease, flexibility, and building and sustaining trust.

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SIA_ Facilitation Guidelines and Community Agreements

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Check-ins offer us small, meaningful ways to design experiences that invite us to be present, seen, and heard. Something we can use to nurture ourselves when we show up in shared spaces, sustain our creativity, bring joy, and get us attuned to what we're feeling, whether online or in-person—when that in-person future arrives for us again.

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🎥 Self-Accountability & Movement Building (2 hours)

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🎥 Self-Accountability & Movement Building (2 hours)

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Join Shannon Perez-Darby to explore the role self-accountability plays in building strong, sustainable movements. We'll discuss how self-accountability—that is accountability with and for ourselves—is essential in building accountable communities and the movements to sustain them.

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Self-Accountability & Movement Building with Shannon Perez-Darby

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📓 Towards An Abolitionist Horizon: Reflection Questions

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📓 Towards An Abolitionist Horizon: Reflection Questions

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Page 29-35: Reflection Question to help you get present in this moment.

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This is a guidebook created by Mariame Kaba (Project NIA) for young organizers who took part in Project NIA's Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute in July 2021. It was designed by Mon Mohapatra. The resource was not created for public distribution, however, we've heard from those who have received copies that it has been useful to their continuing education. So in April 2022, we posted this resource for others to use if interested.

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Towards An Abolitionist Horizon: A Guidebook for Young Organizers

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This is a guidebook created by Mariame Kaba (Project NIA) for young organizers who took part in Project NIA's Abolitionist Youth Organizing Institute in July 2021. It was designed by Mon Mohapatra. The resource was not created for public distribution, however, we've heard from those who have received copies that it has been useful to their continuing education.

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How do you feel in your heart and in your body when you contemplate that the whole self is SPICEE? Are there other parts that you would add or things you would change?

Written by Marcia Lee, originally published by Healing by Choice. If this acronym feels useful for you, here are a few ways that I’ve been using it to ground myself and others, to truly live into all of who I am and you are – is welcome here.

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This self-care work needs to happen on both an individual and organizational level. Below are some practical tips for how to be strategic around self-care by prioritizing the tasks at hand.

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🎥 Self-Care for Sustainability and Impact (8 minutes)

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🎥 Self-Care for Sustainability and Impact (8 minutes)

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Move to End Violence Founding Director Jackie Payne speaks about the importance of self-care for activists to maintain sustainability and impact.

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