Session Dates: July 27, Aug 3, Aug 17 & Aug 24 (Sundays) - Each session: 4-6:30pm ET (1-3:30pm PT)
Registration is ongoing while the series is in session.
Recordings will be posted 2-3 days after the corresponding live session
Summer Rejuvenation - An online series hosted by Comrades Education
FACILITATED by: Eleanor Hancock
with STORYTELLERS: J.P. Hill, Sharet Garcia, Huwaida Arraf and co-founders of Folke Healing
and SPIRITUAL PRACTITIONERS: Katrina Messenger, Angela Raincatcher & Vanessa Crowley
cosponsored by Two Rivers Sanctuary (a DC based temple founded by Comrades’ esteemed elder, Katrina Messenger)
Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.
We Keep Us Safe.
Summer Rejuvenation is an online program hosted by Comrades Education designed to support activists, allies & everyday people taking action across multiple fronts this summer. Together with eight remarkable guests, we'll be sharing stories, sharing strategies & gathering our strength!
Register here or read on for more details …
As state repression & imperial forces escalate, 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 experience ourselves as part of a collective. Meeting the moment we’re in requires a strong & healthy collective - something we each contribute to in our own way and in different ways at different times.
This online, four session summer program is designed to bring people together across many walks of life and meet these challenges by:
restoring ourselves in community with guest storytellers & spiritual practitioners,
sharing our own stories & strategies,
and building connections with one another …
… so that we can contribute to the collective power required 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.
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 | Founder, Two Rivers Sanctuary
Practice: 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: Vanessa Crowley | Two Rivers Sanctuary
Practice: somatic release and meditation for building courage
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: Angela Raincatcher | Two Rivers Sanctuary
Practice: meditation for nourishing our hearts, such that strength and love is overflowing into our work for our communities and our world
Sunday, August 24 Agenda
STORYTELLERS: Nicole Born-Crow & Anna Barr | Founders, Folke Healing
Topic: strengthening ourselves through our connection to ancestors, ancestral folk practices and connection to the land
PRACTITIONER: Katrina Messenger | Founder, Two Rivers Sanctuary
Practice: meditation for drawing strength from the land and connecting with plant allies
READ GUEST & FACILITATOR BIO’S ON OUR SITE HERE. Course structure & ground rules can be found here.
Live sessions: July 27, Aug 3, Aug 17 and Aug 24
All sessions recorded. Live attendance not mandatory. Registration fee sliding scale; no one turned away for lack of funds.