Joy and Celebration

Joy is vital for community organising as it strengthens relationships, sustains organising, fosters healing, and serves as an act of resistance against oppressive systems. The roads to justice are often long and unpredictable. Creating opportunity for joy and celebration is an important part of building morale and momentum and organising sustainably.

In this training you will be introduced to practical ways you can incorporate joy in your organising and apply learnings to your context.

Outcomes

• Gain a better understanding of the importance and role that joy plays in community organising and movements for justice. 
• Be introduced to practical tools that could be incorporated into your community organising practise. 
• Have an opportunity to reflect on your context and how you can incorporate more joy in your organising.

Meet the facilitators

Ezimma Chigbo is an associate senior collective care trainer at Act Build Change. Ezimma is also a writer, healer and creative facilitator with a background in youth work. She specialises in working with young women exploring issues such as healthy relationships, labels and identity and has worked mainly with young women involved in the criminal justice system.

Kennedy Walker is a trainer, coach and facilitator. They’ve helped individuals, groups and organisations move through conflict, build power, cultivate knowledge and strengthen skills for over ten years. They’ve trained with the Gestalt Centre in London, Navigate, Action Learning Associates and more in counselling skills, trauma informed facilitation, coaching, and mediation. They've co-founded organisations such as Kinfolk Network in 2017 and others that aim to strengthen collective care, learning and power. Kennedy holds a master's degree in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice and is currently a trainee counsellor.

Cost

• Full Members (those with a paid membership): Free - just email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket. If you’re not a paying member but would like to become one, you can register on our membership page (this will also get you access to lots of other great events, trainings and more!).
• Non-members and Basic Members: £15.

Access

To avoid technical difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address as is attached to the Zoom account you will use to access the session.

Is there anything we need to know to support you to be able to participate well in this online session? This includes but is not limited to language, comfort, access (physical, emotional, technological). Please get in touch and we will do our best to support.