Friday, December 4th
9:30am–12:30pm Pacific · 11:30am–2:30pm Central · 12:30–3:30pm Eastern
LIVE | ONLINE | CAPTIONED | RECORDED
A live three-hour online workshop for facilitators, healers, organizers, and space-holders learning to stay in relationship when things are sticky.
WITH STEPHANIE GHOSTON PAUL, MICHELLE CASSANDRA JOHNSON, & TRISTAN KATZ
THREE TIERED PRICING: $100 - $175 - $250
Pay What You Can / No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE?
WATCH THIS FREE CONVERSATION
On July 29th the three of us sat down for a live, unscripted conversation about what we're carrying, how it shows up in the rooms we hold, and what becomes possible when we stop pretending we can hold it alone.
The recording is here, captioned, and yours to watch whenever you have the time.
I AM SO EXCITED THIS CONVERSATION IS HAPPENING.
I think this is proof of what I've been thinking—that we've been having this conversation in our small groups, and the fact that you're gathering more people together means we can have these conversations in larger groups.
That makes me feel hopeful somehow, in the midst of this.
— Tamara Jeffries, participant in the July 29th conversation
The polycrisis is not out there, separate from the rooms we gather in—virtually or otherwise.
It moves through our bodies and shows up in our group settings. It shapes what becomes possible, what breaks open, what contracts, what gets projected, and what gets avoided.
When the container we're holding becomes safer, people may unravel—not because the content didn't land, or because the facilitator failed.
Because there is finally enough room for what has been held, hidden, managed, or survived to come forward.
The question is not whether conflict will happen in our spaces.
Conflict will happen. Harm will happen. Mistakes will be made and rupture will occur. Disintegration will happen. Grief will be present.
YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING
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What are we to each other while we endure this?
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What else is there besides endurance?
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We've been unwell for a long time—why does this moment feel like its own thing?
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What gets in the way of staying together?
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How do we practice Beloved Community when things are falling apart?
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This workshop will be a practice space.
✻ Friday, December 4th
9:30-12:30pm Pacific / 12:30-3:30 Eastern
LIVE | ONLINE | CAPTIONED | RECORDED
WHAT WE’LL PRACTICE TOGETHER
Naming what’s here. Noticing the conditions we are actually in and how they show up in bodies, relationships, groups, and containers.
Beloved Community when things are falling apart. Staying in relation past the point where staying gets sticky.
Practices and principles. The technologies of support we already carry—ritual, ceremony, storytelling, ancestral practice, somatic play.
Minding my business / the group's business. Discerning what is mine, what is the group's, and what belongs to the systems moving through all of us.
Ecosystem roles. Who we each are in a movement, a community, a room. What we're built for and what we're borrowing.
Commitments. What we know now, who we need, and who we need to become.
MEET THE FACILITATORS
Stephanie Ghoston Paul is an internationally recognized speaker, racial justice facilitator, life coach, organizational development consultant, and recovering lawyer who supports individuals, teams, and organizations through transformative liberation work. She helps people move through the messy middle of change with more clarity, confidence, and capacity—shifting from reactive patterns into proactive practices rooted in identity, culture, and collective possibility.
she/herSTEPHANIE GHOSTON PAUL
MICHELLE C. JOHNSON
Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial equity consultant, educator, and intuitive healer whose work centers healing from individual and collective trauma, returning to wholeness, and aligning mind, body, spirit, and heart. For more than two decades, she has supported individuals, organizations, and communities in dismantling racism, disrupting systems of oppression, creating ritual in justice spaces, and practicing collective healing and liberation.
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Tristan Katz is a nationally recognized speaker, facilitator, consultant, and writer whose work is rooted in intersectional, anti-oppression, and trauma-informed approaches to culturally competent marketing, business, and LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Tristan supports leaders, practitioners, and communities in moving from awareness to action with more clarity, accountability, relational skill, cultural responsibility, and care.
they/heTRISTAN KATZ
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
from past participants of The Art of Skillful Facilitation with Michelle, Stephanie + Tristan
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Michelle, Stephanie and Tristan guided the group with incredible grace, skill and heart.
— Emily Dalsfoist
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I felt like I learned how to be more deeply human over the course of five days.
— Asha
✻ Friday, December 4th ✻
9:30-12:30pm Pacific / 12:30-3:30 Eastern
LIVE | ONLINE | CAPTIONED | RECORDED
TIERED PRICING
Community Rate
FULL PAYMENT OF
$100
FOR THOSE NEEDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Sustainer Rate
FULL PAYMENT OF
$175
COVERS THE COST FOR YOU
Supporter Rate
FULL PAYMENT OF
$250
FOR THOSE WHO CAN SUPPORT OTHERS
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE. NO ONE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. CONTACT US DIRECTLY IF YOU NEED A SCHOLARSHIP
We trust you to make choices that are mutual in integrity.
We are not meant to wait until the world calms down before we practice community. We are here, now, in the midst of rupture, grief, fear, longing, conflict, love, and possibility. So let’s practice.
LET’S RITUALIZE THE FUTURE WE ARE BRINGING INTO BEING.
ACCESS & CARE
Live captioning and transcript provided
Recording will be available after the workshop for ongoing access
We'll take a break partway through, and you are always welcome to attend off-camera.
We’ll practice Community Agreements and care practices, named at the beginning of our session
You are always welcome to notify us of any additional access needs as they arise
We know people will arrive with different capacities, nervous systems, identities, access needs, and lived experiences. You are invited to participate in ways that honor your body and capacity while remaining accountable to the collective space.
COMMON QUESTIONS
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Yes! We mean it when we say this is a pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds offering. If none of the existing pricing tiers are accessible for you, for any reason, reach out and we’ll make it work!
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Not in the curriculum sense. This is a practice space. You'll leave with practices, principles, and commitments rather than a framework to implement.
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You're welcome. The questions we're asking belong to anyone holding anything with other people.
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Yes. We record the facilitator portions and full-group conversation, and you'll receive the recording afterward whether or not you made it live. Breakout rooms are never recorded.
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Yes, in small groups more than once. Participating on camera and out loud is welcome and never required—listening is a real way to be here.
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You're welcome too, and we'd guess you're tired. This is a space to be in the questions rather than to hold them for someone else.
A NOTE ON SAFETY, POWER, & TRUTH
This workshop will not promise a “safe space” where discomfort never happens.
WE WILL ORIENT TOWARDS SAFER SPACES:
spaces that acknowledge power, social location, impact, trauma, conflict, and the possibility of harm; spaces where discomfort is not automatically treated as danger, and harm is not dismissed because someone “meant well;” spaces where we can practice relationship with more honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and care.
This matters because many of us have inherited facilitation norms that ask us to manage the room, smooth over rupture, or make conflict disappear. We need different practices, now more than ever.
There was ample opportunity to witness, reflect, process and practice identifying harm and practicing repair.
— Joan Zelaya, past participant, The Art of Skillful Facilitation
