Care work

Sharing and exploring thoughts about policies and processes within our activist groups, that aim to translate our values into practices.

caring is sharing sessions

Alternative Justice, Gastivists Collective, RadHR and The Global Grassroots Support Network organised exchange sessions on Care practices, inviting people to think deeply together about what it means to live our values in the ways we organise. 

This current configuration is clearly only a starting point, and we know that the cultures and learnings around care, accountability, anti-oppressive practices and just being more human with one another, vary from place to place. This is never easy work, but countless kindred spirits are doing it, all around the world. It is not new, but it is spreading and the links are being made to share the learning from group to group.

National borders will define some of the legal, cultural and linguistic aspects of how we organise, but we have more to learn from those operating in different spaces, than separates us!

There is a wave happening right now – more and more of us are thinking deeply about what it means to live our values in the ways we organise ourselves. 

  • Activist networks are deepening their decision making processes, trying to bring everyone into their ways of working more fairly…
  • Workers cooperatives are shaping more-equitable approaches to pay, to recognise the different needs that their members bring to their work;
  • Community groups are finding ways of keeping one another safe, without turning to cops or other violent state agencies.

We are exploring together ways to put our values into our policies and processes, in the ways we think about our budgets or internal work. Join us!

2.0. This time we decided to focus on conflict.

We want to shape a gathering that gets to the depth of some of the immense challenges that many of us are working through in our groups.

An initial list of topics :

  • Navigating & mapping power differences in conflict
  • Practicing self-accountability
  • Creating group cultures around conflict
  • Tools for difficult Conversations
  • Generative (& destructive) elements of conflict
  • What is accountability (healthy vs unhealthy)
  • Accountability processes (how to engage when things get really tough)
  • Conflict and neurodivergence

Easy-peasy, isn’t it? Let’s have this difficult conversations!