2024 Spring Workshop Series
The Justice Center at All Peoples works to develop comfort and confidence of individuals, organizations and congregations to engage in meaningful justice advocacy and activism.
Workshops are free for members and friends of All Peoples. Others are asked to pay a $25 fee per workshop.
All classes are in person 7:00 – 8:30 pm
at the Justice Center at All Peoples 4934 Brownsboro Road
Relational Advocacy – Tues Jan 30
Our advocacy is most effective and meaningful when we focus on our relationship as much as when we focus on the advocacy goals.
This workshop outlines an approach to advocacy that begins with creating a relationship with policy makers, recognizing the strategic nature of this kind of relationship.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/relational-advocacy-tickets-779649912877
Getting to Impact – Tues Feb 13
A general approach to organizing, activism and advocacy is to organize the event and (maybe) consider what it is we hope to achieve from that event. Getting to impact encourages us to start by thinking of the impact(s) we seek, which impacts both what kinds of events we organize, and how we hold these events. This workshop outlines a impact model of organizing and provides some basic skills for how to organize for impact.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/getting-to-impact-tickets-780242836327
Embodied Activism –Tues – March 5
The fuel for our activism (the passion and compassion, outrage, fear, concern, love…) is located in our bodies. The analysis and strategizing comes from our heads. Far too often we organize only from our “head space” and leave our bodies out of it. But there is wisdom that comes from paying attention to our feelings and sensations in regards to the justice we seek.
This workshop invites participants to open themselves up to these embodied responses and the wisdom that comes from listening to our bodies.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embodied-activism-tickets-780252886387
Finding & Sustaining Joy – Tues March 12
In order to sustain our justice activism and advocacy, and to maximize our impact, we have to find ways to find the joy in what it is we do. Seeking justice is often seen and experienced as the “hard long struggle” – which it often is, but when we fail to notice and honor the joy that is a part of and inherent in the struggling, we can lose sight of what it is we’re struggling for.
This workshop invites participants to locate where we all find joy in our work (individual and collective) for justice, and encourages us to wallow in this joy.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-sustaining-joy-tickets-780265624487
Solidarity – Tues March 26
Justice activism and advocacy is inherently relational work (working in relationship with each other in order to enhance our sense of connection – to each other and to the issues we’re fighting for). One aspect of this relationality is solidarity. If we’re not carefully attentive, our tendency is to act in solidarity with people who are like us.
This workshop, designed for people of privilege, defines solidarity, and supports participants to develop their abilities to engage in solidarity with people who are most marginalized and/or impacted.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solidarity-tickets-780270208197
About your facilitator:
Rus Ervin Funk is the Director of the Justice Center at All Peoples. He is a long-term activist and organizer having focused primarily in the areas of racial and gender justice. He has worked throughout the US and in multiple other countries both engaging in direct advocacy and activism, and in supporting others to engage in justice seeking.