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Shreshtha will be online. If you'd like to connect with her, feel free to message Angeli/her and I can send y'all to a private room.

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Workshop 1: Roots Before Branches

We ground ourselves in the wisdom of ecosystems and community care. Using pod mapping and the metaphor of the mycelium network, we identify the people and relationships that support our healing.
Writing Prompt: Write a survivor love letter to someone in your support network who helped you grow—someone you may never have thanked.

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Reflect on the people in your life who have offered support, encouragement, and understanding. These may be friends, family members, teachers, or even ancestors or fictional characters who inspire you.

On a piece of paper or in a journal, create your Mycelium Council, your list of support:

Write the names of individuals who you trust and rely on.

Identify individuals who could potentially join your support team with more trust-building or open conversations.

Write the names of networks or groups that could serve as resources for you.

Write the names of ancestors, historical figures or even fictional characters that are a source of strength for you.

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lofi hip hop radio 📚 beats to relax/study to

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Dear Survivor,

You are beloved and beautiful.

Maybe you can’t believe that,

But I will hold it here until you can.

Somebody did that for me.

-Jeff Chu #SurvivorLoveLetter

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About SOIL — SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project

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SOIL was founded in 2020 to build the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive.

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Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective – Building Transformative Justice Responses to Child Sexual Abuse | Building Transformative Justice Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

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Contact information: (206) 751-5109

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We map our life stories and reclaim our personal timelines. By reflecting on our younger selves and the moments that shaped us, we recognize both trauma and resilience as part of our becoming.
Writing Prompt: Write a letter from your younger self to your present self, then respond with a promise to care for them.

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Take about 10 minutes to do a life timeline: you’ll start with date you were born and then todays date and write down significant event, and/or any moments of struggle. This will be a first pass- there's no right/wrong way to do it. <3

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Write a love letter to your younger self using the prompt: “The Truth is. . .”

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What has kept you alive (including creativity)?

What's my resources (think mycelium council)?

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13 Practice: Reflection on Belonging with Prentis Hemphill

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Listen to this episode from Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast) on Spotify. This practice with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter, leads you to cultivate a sense of belonging within yourself that is untouchable by external conditions.

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Emotions wheel from the Junto Institute

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This session explores collective movement, ancestral strength, and the power of survivor-led change. We reflect on how connection and shared leadership create transformation.

Writing Prompt: Write a survivor love letter to an ancestor—real, chosen, or imagined—who reminds you that you are not alone.

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Transform yourself to transform the world -Grace Lee Boggs

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Dear Survivor,

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things. #SurvivorLoveLetter

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ammara (@tender.yarrow) • Instagram photos and videos

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157 likes, 8 comments - tender.yarrow on April 13, 2025: ”✨️2 weeks away✨️ Come tend to grief, drink some tea, read books on love, write the letters in your heart, be moved by human stories, & revel in the abundant love that exists. We have an incredible lineup of artists vending prints, jewelry, ceramics, plant medicines, vegan pastries & more! Chapbook release + grief cafe + open mic
Sunday, April 27th 1-5pm
@studio.7117
masks required gratitude to @kc4culture for funding support 🌼@perpetuallyjune: June is a Khmer educator, martial artist, & writer born & raised on Coast Salish lands. Her work, play, & learning are fueled by the notion that love is inevitable, liberating & everlasting. 🌼@waxdrawing: I’m a multiracial Asian American artist living in Seattle on Coast Salish & Duwamish land. I mainly create imagery of animals & abstract works with watercolors, digital drawing & beading materials. 🌼@meimeicakery: diasporic chinese baker making bespoke vegan cakes & pastries. small, slow batches made with care by my disabled body in my home kitchen 🌼@lunas.aaart: I am a queer, boricua Taíno artist & poet. My art is a manifestation of the thoughts & feelings that come as I navigate the world we live in. My work is inspired by my identity, as well as my family & ancestors. 🌼@sam.doodles: sam 정우 (he/him) is a queer & transmasc immigrant & artist boy who creates art to hold himself & his community. he’s grateful to be alive & is grateful u are too! 🌼@baguantte: Hi I’m Sam & I wanted to share my experiences & feelings through my art. I hope my pieces are able to resonate with people. 🌼@tender.yarrow: Ammara is an autistic queer disabled Khmer plant witch-poet, tender space-holder, & story-weaver. Their art invites us to hold softness & receive the medicine that blooms from tending our grief 🌼@chefwhatwehavehereis: Black, disabled, queer femme who is interested in caring for community &reducing harm. i am a home cook who enjoys learning about herbalism & using food as medicine. 🌼@meifa.stu: Katharina is a queer canto-german artist creating across many mediums & synapses (a proud autistic bean). They seek to make art that inspires tenderness, love & intimacy with self & others (Cont in comments)”.

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Take a few moments to reflect:

What did you learn about yourself, your inner child, your emotional world?

Has your perception of the event shifted? Of the people involved?

Are there emotional or practical needs you recognize now — from others, or from yourself?

What pearls of wisdom did you uncover?

Finally, consider:
How can you integrate this experience into your life?
Into your relationship with others?
Into your relationship with yourself?