Resource Your Activism: Nonviolence and Collaborative Leadership for Inner and Collective Transformation
August Monday 18th to Friday 22nd, 2025 - Sauchie Home farm near Stirling, Scotland
What if you had all the support you needed to play your part in bringing about a world that works for all and work with groups that truly walk their talk?
I will be joined by colleagues and friends Shar Molloy and Elkie Deadman. The three of us are part of visionary projects that experiment with what it takes to cultivate nonviolent and collaborative ways, cohesive teams and deep care for personal and collective capacity. We are passionate to seed webs of support and communities of practice across the world, inspired by the skills and insights that our groups are developing and sharing with others.
This course is for anyone who is engaged in grassroots projects, environmental, citizens-led and peace initiatives, and progressive social movements including faith-groups, third sector organisations and trade unions. If you are looking for fresh inspiration to navigate conflicts and other challenges inherent to distributed leadership, this workshop is for you.
Our tool kit is rooted in the work of Joanna Macy, Marshall Rosenberg, Miki Kashtan and many others, and these areas of practice will guide our time together:
• Vision: how do I increase my capacity to focus on what I am or my group is aiming to create, beyond opposing what I/we see around us?
• Mourning: what personal and collective practices can support me/us in mourning the gap between my or my group's vision and the current reality?
• Liberation for all: how do I/we work for a world that works for all, not only for those who are like us or agree with us but truly everyone?
• Collaboration: how do I/we relearn, even while working for change, to distribute leadership, increase trust, and ground leadership in care for the whole?
More information and registration here.