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Summer Rejuvenation

share stories, share strategies & gather our strength

An Online Series Hosted by Comrades Education

FACILITATED by: Eleanor Hancock / with GUESTS: J.P. Hill, Sharet Garcia, Huwaida Arraf, Katrina Messenger, and more!

cosponsored by the Order of the Elemental Mysteries

El pueblo salva al pueblo.

We Keep Us Safe.

Summer Rejuvenation is an online series designed to support activists & allies taking action across multiple fronts this summer.

As the strength of state repression & imperial forces escalates, so must we! But people are not machines. In order to meet the moment, we need to nourish ourselves, build strength through our connections and understand that we are part of a collective. Meeting the moment we’re requires on strong & healthy that collective - something we each contribute to in our own way and in different ways at different times.

This online, five session summer program is designed to help us restore ourselves and contribute to the collective power we need if we are to overcome fascism and build an equitable world

Designed to be immediate & rejuvenating, each live session of this program will focus on one storytelling guest and one nourishing reflection or meditation led by a spiritual movement leadership. Whole group & small group discussion will be interspersed around these two main activities.

Registration is ongoing while the program is in session. All live sessions are recorded and available to everyone who joins, regardless of when you sign up.

Session Topics:

Sunday, July 27 Agenda

STORYTELLER: J.P. Hill | New Means Substack

Topics: mutual aid, creation of a people’s community center in NYC, report-back from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor

PRACTITIONER: Katrina Messenger | meditation for strengthening our collective “soul”

Sunday, August 3 Agenda

STORYTELLER: Sharet Garcia | Founder, Undocuprofessionals

Topic: how we can be allies to members of the undocumented community right now

PRACTITIONER: Eleanor Hancock | solidarity meditation created during the initial phase of the Covid pandemic, inspired by the heightened awareness of the role “essential workers” played in all of our lives

Sunday, August 10 Agenda

STORYTELLER: Crowd-sourcing best practices for confronting ICE | facilitation w/ Eleanor Hancock & OEM member

Topics: building on our work with Sharet Garcia, community discussion and sharing around how we are preparing for and/or confronting ICE in our area

PRACTITIONER: Order of Elemental Mysteries member | meditation for strength & trauma release in the face of confrontations with state violence

Sunday, August 17 Agenda

STORYTELLER: Huwaida Arraf | Co-founder Freedom Flotilla Coalition

Topics: people’s attempts to break the siege on Gaza, including this summer’s Gaza freedom flotilla journeys; inspiration and support for taking action within the Palestine solidarity movement

PRACTITIONER: Order of Elemental Mysteries member | filling our heart to overflowing, such that our love pours out to all

Sunday, August 24 Agenda

STORYTELLER: Nicole Born-Crow | Co-founder Folke Healing

Topic: strengthening ourselves through our connection to ancestors, ancestral folk practices & connection to land

PRACTITIONER: Katrina Messenger | meditation for drawing strength from the land & plant allies

Course Details

Five online sessions:

July 27, Aug 3, Aug 10, Aug 17 & Aug 24

4:00-6:30pm ET • 1-3:30pm PT

Live attendance is not mandatory.

Sessions will be recorded. 

Suggested registration fee: $70-200*

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Registration is ongoing while the program is in session. All session recordings are available to everyone who joins, regardless of when you sign up.

To learn more about participant expectations and how this program will be held, please view our program structure and ground rules document.

Meet the facilitator

David Dean

is a political educator, writer and speaker seeking to support the growth of powerful coalitions in our social movements. He leads trainings independently and is also a contributor and former Associate Director at Comrades Education. Over the past decade, David has taught courses for more than 5000 people. He is currently writing a book titled, Roots Deeper than Whiteness, meant to help white Americans cultivate a rooted, anti-racist identity based on a deeper understanding of their ancestry that can drive their efforts for collective liberation. To receive regular writing from David and learn about other training opportunities with him, subscribe to his substack, Toward Solidarity.

What participants have said about our courses

  • “I am so grateful for the language, the love, the empowerment, and the honest respect shown by the facilitators for everyone's experience. This is the kind of work I've been looking for. You have helped me feel so much less alone.”

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  • “This course helped me to feel more motivated to work in community and at a community level - that there could actually be meaningful change that comes from that kind of action."

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  • "Many of the activist spaces I have been in used shame tactics to bring people into the movement, and it was really meaningful (and healing!) for me to be in a space that instead focused on what we can do starting now and what our individual and collective capabilities are."

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This course is actively supported by our Advisory Council Members:

Katrina Messenger

Betty Burkes

Bonnie Duran

"Why do you charge for your work?"

We believe the work that we do is significant, and we want to do it well. To this end, we charge a modest fee for our online programs, and solicit donations from participants and supporters, in order to meet our financial needs. This allows Comrades Education staff and instructors to focus their time and energy on the educational work this project promotes, for the benefit of all.

Comrades Education and our instructors support a transition away from capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy; we support reparations to historically targeted groups, communities and Peoples; and we make our work available to all regardless of financial means.

If you have further questions, please contact: info@comrades.education