CommonBound 2018: Full Schedule

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9:00am EDT

Healing Justice & Collective Care in Our Movements

As calls for self-care become popularized in mainstream and activist culture and we are bombarded by consumerist individualist pursuits of wellbeing, healing justice offers a transformative framework that can transition us to collective rhythms that support our lives together. Moving the needs of our personal lives out of the market back into our communities is an essential part of how we organize together.

Speakers

Alyson Thompson

Community Liason, The 4A Project

Kate Werning

Founder, Healing Justice Podcast

Kate is the creator and host of Healing Justice Podcast, a virtual practice space resourcing activists and organizers with weekly conversations and practices to sustain their work for social change. Kate is a decade-long community organizer, social movement trainer with Momentum... Read More →

Saturday June 23, 2018 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
HGA Classroom 219

Workshop Block A

Track Wellness; Healing and Self-Care

11:00am EDT

Self Care, Sisterhood & Sustainability

Two Visionary Founders of Grassroots (or Radical) Collectives in St. Louis Share Stories and Skills. We will explore the relationship of self development in mother communities, sister circles and our support networks. We are using our eight year span of self, (co) and social development as an ethnographic share of our practice in sustainability, community organizing, ancestral connection and partnered impact through a mixed media, ephemera and guided, group centered discussion.

Speakers

Dail Chambers

Chinyere Oteh

Saturday June 23, 2018 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
HGA Classroom 204

Workshop Block B

Track Wellness; Healing and Self-Care
Tag Gender Justice, Racial Justice

9:30am EDT

Fired Up & Burnt Out: Keeping It Together in Uncertain Times

How can we keep ourselves grounded as we participate in this movement moment? In our current political climate, we're seeing many new activists and increasing momentum but also increasing burnout and despair. This workshop shares strategies for how to collectively address burnout and make sure our movement work is sustainable. This hands-on workshop will use The Icarus Project resources, group exercises, and role plays to help activists get tools for sustainable resistance.

Speakers

Byul Yoon

Operations Director, The Icarus Project

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 219

Workshop Block C

Track Wellness; Healing and Self-Care
Tag 101

9:30am EDT

Health Equity for Workers

Health care is a vital need for all, and one of the biggest challenges for organizations. The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives seeks to build partnerships to strengthen and share solutions to address the health of workers in the new economy movement as well as their families.

Speakers

Mo Manklang

Communications Director, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Mo Manklang is the Communications Director for the USFWC. She leads policy efforts at the federal level, as well as working with our membership on state and local initiatives, and heading up health benefits initiatives. She has been convening people in cooperatives and social impact... Read More →

Daniella Preisler

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 215 3026 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103

Workshop Block C

Track Worker Cooperatives: Struggle and Growth Together, Wellness; Healing and Self-Care
Tag Gender Justice, Migrant Justice, Racial Justice

11:15am EDT

Building the Caring Majority

In the United States, someone turns 65 years old every 8 seconds, a demographic shift in the country that requires a new vision for our care infrastructure. In this workshop, we will examine the bold and creative campaigns taking shape in multiple states to build that new infrastructure in a way that supports those with long term care needs, as well as the family caregivers and home health workers who provide that care.

Speakers

Maggie Ornstein

NY Caring Majority/ Caring Across Generations

Kevin Simonwitz

Sunday June 24, 2018 11:15am - 12:30pm EDT
HGA Classroom 219

Workshop Block D

Track Wellness; Healing and Self-Care
Tag Gender Justice