Image Description: From the sky’s perspective, looking down to a field of long green grass, strips of bedsheets have been braided and laid onto the ground in the shape of a hexagon. Four people are laying on the grass inside of the hexagon, their bodies curled in various shapes of rest - exhaustion or restoration.

Text reads: “March 28th at 4pm PDT - Mutual Aid: Imperfect People Doing Imperfect Work - A Workshop with Dean Spade”

Mutual Aid: Imperfect People Doing Imperfect Work - A workshop with Dean Spade is presented as a part of SALVAGE EXCHANGE: on sustaining, an experiment in community care, shared embodiment, and decentralized learning happening March 21-31.

• DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2021
• TIME: 4 pm - 6:15 pm
• ACCESSIBILITY: ASL interpreted, Live-automated captions

Event will be recorded/archived on the Salvage Exchange website

In this two-hour interactive workshop, facilitated by Dean Spade, we will look at some common questions and stumbling blocks that emerge for people who are collaborating to build transformative change. This will include: what are the onramps that bring people into organizing for change? What discourages and encourages us to get involved in things we care about? How can we use what we know about this to help more people enter more deeply into collaborative work for transformation? How do the groups we are in create group culture that intentionally resists dominant culture? How do we redefine leadership together, departing from what we learn about "leaders" in dominant culture, so that we can build more horizontal, participatory ways of being together?

This workshop is appropriate for people with varying levels of experience working for change in groups. It may also be useful for people working together on a variety of creative projects.

For more information on the other events in this series, or about the project, please check out the Salvage Exchange: on sustaining project page.