Liberatory Facilitator Circle: Season 2, Planting Seeds

The Liberatory Facilitator Circle is a co-created space for activist facilitators to share, practise and grow in community.

This is a space where those working at the frontlines of justice, healing, and systems change can be resourced, restored, and supported to grow together. In this circle, we tend to our ecosystem, building the conditions where our collective values and visions for justice can take root.

In these monthly gatherings, we get into our bodies, share knowledge and challenges, practice together, and simply connect.

Season 2: Planting seeds

In our first season, we prepared the ground and rooted into our collective values of decoloniality and collective care. Now, we move on to planting seeds. We'll be exploring how we embed liberatory principles to our facilitation.We’ll share the foundational practices, tools and resources that help us hold truly anti-oppressive spaces and help to bring dormant revolutionary ideas to life.

1. January 28th
Imagination as revolutionary practice
2-4pm GMT | 3-5pm CET | 9am-12pm EST

2. February 25th
Consent and agency as foundations for liberation
2-4pm GMT | 3-5pm CET | 9am-12pm EST

How do we create conditions of safety for the seeds of liberation to flourish and grow?

3. March 25th
Contracting justice: how we work with clients and funders
2-4pm GMT | 3-5pm CET | 9am-12pm EST

Details tbc

Why join?

We won’t get change from more of the same. For those of us working for a radically different future, the realities of resisting oppressive systems can leave us burned out. We’ve spent years trying to fix the system from within, only to realise it was never broken — it was built this way. It’s time to down tools and build something new.

Radical change needs radical approaches. A liberated future needs us to be caring, sharing and healing, right here and now

Our strength comes in numbers. One of us against the mainstream might be called a ‘trouble-maker’. Lots of us against the mainstream - now that’s really trouble. Beautiful, beautiful trouble.

We grow together. We need opportunities to connect with transformative ways of working and to practice with trusted peers. We need to embody the values we espouse - collective care, transformative justice, solidarity, anti-oppression, abolition - not just in the work we do, but in how we do it, and who we do it with.

How does it work?

Each season, we set a theme based on what we hear from the community about what’s needed. From January to March, we're Planting Seeds. Each session, we'll dive deeper through a mix of:

• Education — peer-led skill-shares, guest speakers, and shared resources.
• Exploration — discussion, somatic practices, and personal and collective reflection.
• Embodiment — somatic practices, commitments to action, and our ongoing relationships (including time simply to be together).

We encourage active participation in every session, but this looks different for everyone. You’re welcome to turn your camera or mic off, or to engage through chat or reactions instead.

Closed captions are enabled and slides and a recording are shared after the session. If you have any access requirements, please email associate@soulworkco.org; we’ll do our utmost to accommodate.

Join us as we begin Planting Seeds.