Caring in Common: Resourcing hope in times of despair
Caring in Common: Resourcing hope in times of despair
Secure your place in Caring in Common
Thank you for your interest in Caring in Common. We'd be delighted to have you join us.
If you haven't already, please read over the details here, and download the info pack.
We are offering these price bands to support accessibility, while also ensuring all organisers and facilitators are fairly paid. Please consider which price band feels most appropriate and in line with the values of Caring in Common.
To register, select 'Confirm your place', choose select 'self-select tiered pricing', then add 'your contribution', choosing the appropriate rate from the tiers below.
Payment plans are available via PayPal - at the checkout, choose 'pay later' or 'pay in three' .
Tier 3: Solidarity - £550-£750
This rate is for you if you have ample financial resources, due to organisational sponsorship, personal earnings and/or access to intergenerational wealth. Paying this rate extends support to community members without these privileges and acknowledges the value of building a diverse and equitable community.
Tier 2: Sustain - £350-£550
This rate is for you if you have access to financial security and do not traditionally qualify for sliding scale fee reductions. Paying this rate recognises the actual cost and values the time, labour, and resources of practitioners.
Tier 1: Mutual Aid - £200-£350
This rate is available to honour the ongoing inequity, harm, and barriers to accessing care spaces. Paying this rate maintains a generous practice of reciprocity ideally without compromising your financial well-being. Please inquire if a lower rate is needed
Donations and Community Solidarity places
As part of or commitment to resourcing the movement for social and environmental justice, we are offering a limited number of free places for members of grassroots and under-resourced activist groups. We invite those with financial means (eg due to high income, intergenerational wealth etc) to select the 'Donate a place' option, to cover the cost of one community solidarity place (or more! You can add an additional donation, too!).
Dates
Saturday 21st March, 11am-3pm GMT - Grounding
Tuesday 24th March, 6-8pm GMT - Connection
Tuesday 31st March, 6-8pm BST - Rage
Tuesday 7th April, 6-8pm BST - Visions
Tuesday 14th April, 6-8pm BST - Grief
Tuesday 21st April, 6-8pm BST - Hope
Tuesday 28th April, 6-8pm BST - Mastery
Saturday 2nd May, 11am-3pm BST - Celebration
Why join Caring in Common?
The atrocities we’re witnessing are overwhelming. So many of us are feeling powerless, hopeless and despairing right now.
We know that folks are tired. It's tempting to shut down, to harden or lash out.
Make no mistake - all this is by design. The powers that be (or the powers who think they are) rely on us being unfeeling and unable to witness the injustices they enact. They love when we’re fighting among ourselves, fragmented and weak.
If we want to tap into the power that we are, we have to start feeling.
We have to start connecting: to ourselves, to each other and to our shared dreams for a better world.
Caring in Common is a programme bringing together like-minded, caring souls to remind ourselves that:
- Our feelings are valid and vital tools
- We each have gifts that give us power
- There are plenty of us and together we can change things
Who is it for?
This is a space for those who are:
- Appalled by genocide, facism, deprivation, division.
- Stuck in the depths of grief, rage, hopelessness or numbness.
- Torn between wanting to ‘do more’ and feeling frozen.
- Feeling isolated.
- Feeling burned out or overwhelmed.
You don’t have to be an ‘activist’ or in a professional change-making role, although we welcome those who are. We just want to bring together a group of caring souls, longing for change and willing to engage with open hearts.
There are a limited number of discounted and free spaces available to support accessibility for those with limited resources.
It is important to note that, while this is a supportive space for collective resourcing under traumatising systems, and healing may happen in this programme, it is not catered for healing interpersonal trauma. It’s important to consider whether this is the right time for you to engage in this work and we will be having individual conversations with every participant to identify your resources for wellbeing.
How does it work?
Caring in Common will consist of 8 online sessions run over March-May 2026. These will be a combination of shorter and longer sessions, some in a larger group (max.25 participants), and some in smaller groups.
Each session will include:
- Space to share our collective grief, rage and despair.
- Practices that connect us more deeply to our experience, to each other and to what we care about.
- Support to move into meaningful action, based on our individual gifts and capacity.
In between sessions, you will be supported with daily practice suggestions and a group chat space.
We hope all participants will leave with:
- Connections to friends, allies and collaborators to continue caring in common.
- A sense of purpose and hope in the power of collective action to build a fairer future.
- Clear, concrete ideas for defining your individual role in the movement for justice.