Join the Strategy & Solidarity Collective for a 6-week intensive to develop the skills, tools and strategies you need to start cultivating a culture of care in your workplace or community group.
6-session Live Intensive
Thursdays, 10AM - 12pm Pacific
November 5, 12, 19
December 3, 12, 17
Session recordings will be available to all registered participants
How you practice is how you perform.
Cultivating Cultures of Care is a 6-week Intensive designed to guide dedicated individuals, teams, organizations and community groups in building effective, caring teams to carry out essential services in tumultuous & uncertain times.
In each live work session, participants will PRACTICE skills & strategies for building empathy across & between teams, interrupting and repairing racialized harm, productively engaging conflict, and creating team cultures that center the most impacted & neglected.
Participants will learn & practice skills to:
Assess their current organizational/group culture
Develop realistic action plans with strategies for self-care, peer support & culture change.
Resource their own nervous systems while navigating challenging dynamics or hostile environments.
Differentiate between trauma responses and intentionally harmful behavior among peers & colleagues.
Support individuals demonstrating signs of emotional distress.
Interrupt & repair racialized harm and other forms of identity-based harm.
Intervene productively in peer conflict with strategies grounded in shared values & moving towards clear outcomes.
program overview
Live sessions will be held via zoom, on Thursdays from 10AM - 12pm (pacific time) in 2026:
November 5
November 12
November 19
No Session on Nov 26 - U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday
December 3
December 10
December 17
Session recordings & private discussion space will be available to all registered participants in Strategy & Solidarity’s virtual learning lab.
We hope you will join as many live sessions as possible, and you are welcome to participate asynchronously if live participation isn’t feasible.
Week One
Restorative principles & Practices
We’ll clarify our individual goals, challenges and strengths, explore the differences between retributive & restorative approaches to conflict, and introduce key skills for resourcing yourself & your team through challenging times.
Week two
Strategic Empathy
We’ll identify the goals & strategic value of empathy for self-care, team building, and strategically navigating challenging individuals & situations.
Week three
Power Mapping
We’ll map out the strengths, challenges, barriers and resources available to support our effort to cultivate a culture of care, assessing viable strategies.
Week four
Capacity for Discomfort
We’ll identify the most common scripts that are used to excuse harm and protect the status quo, and practice strategies for interrupting & defusing them - in ourselves and in others.
Week five
Care & Repair
We’ll review common experiences of racial & identity based harm in organizational settings and identify effective strategies for self-care, peer support and organizational response.
Week six
Action Plans
We’ll draw on all of our skills and tools to develop actionable plans for resourcing ourselves, supporting our colleagues and doing what’s within our power to cultivate cultures of care wherever we go.
Who is this for?
Cultivating Cultures of Care is open to any individual who wants to develop the skills and tools to be an agent of change in their workplace, community group or organization.
The practices are adaptable to individual circumstances whether you are a director, a frontline worker, a mutual aid organizer or community volunteer!
How can that be true?
A director absolutely has more formal power & authority to influence shifts in organizational culture than most frontline workers. And, every one of us can be a force of change by changing how we show up in the spaces we navigate.
Can you help me figure out how to fix the problematic people I work with?
No. We can’t “fix” people. And neither can you! We also can’t promise any secret tricks for making your colleagues change their behavior or beliefs overnight.
We do have are proven skills and tools to help you:
Assess your relative power, influence and safety within your organizational ecosystem,
Analyze realistic options you can leverage towards culture change,
Develop & implement action plans for being & leading the change you want to see, regardless of how much formal power you have in the hierarchy.
(And we can help you do even more if you are the director!)
Why are you focusing Specifically on Racial Harm?
We live in a culture of racialized trauma - no one is immune or exempt from the impacts of generations of racialized violence, legal discrimination, structural exclusion and economic exploitation.
No matter how woke or well meaning your team is, you will have to address racialized harm at some point - it is a unavoidable in our current social reality.
Unaddressed and poorly managed responses to incidents of racialized harm are not only harmful to the impacted individuals, they are also detrimental to team cohesion & effectiveness, and often cause dynamic community movements to implode.
Your work team or community group cannot truly be a force for positive social change in the world if you can’t work effectively work through a repair process after an experience of racialized harm.
When you have developed the skills & practices necessary to work through a racial harm repair process effectively, you will likely find that you have the skills & tools you need to work through almost any other kind of conflict that might arise!
Sliding-Scale Registration
Registration is offered on a sliding-scale of $149 - $599 to make this offering as accessible as possible to our community, while honoring the value of the faciliators’ time, energy & expertise.
All individual participants will have access to the same opportunities & materials regardless of the registration rate paid.
Please support our facilitators and the financial sustainability of Strategy & Solidarity by paying the highest amount that is feasible for your current finances.
Scroll through sliding scale registration options below.
Full scholarships may be requested by emailing info@strategyandsolidarity.org
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Sustaining Membership - Starting at $35/month
Become a sustaining member of Strategy & Solidarity and get access to Cultivating Cultures of Care, plus new live workshops each month, full access to replays of past events, and lots more!
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Standard Rate - $549
If you are financially comfortable, or your employer is paying for your participation in this series, please pay the full rate.
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Community Rate - $299
If the standard rate presents a barrier to your participation, please pay the reduced community rate.
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Scholarship Rate - $149
Please register at the scholarship rate if you are a student, unemployed, disabled or otherwise unable to pay the standard or community registration fees.
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Team Registration - $2,500
Register up to 8 members of your organization as a team and get two private strategy sessions with the facilitators to discuss your specific organizational context, challenges & goals, refine your approach, and evaluate your progress.
FAQ
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Registration is offered on a sliding-scale to ensure community access and support the financial sustainability of the Strategy & Solidarity collective.
All individual participants will receive access to the same materials, benefits and opportunities regardless of the rate paid.
Sliding-Scale Options are:
Standard Registration - $549
This is the full price that reflects the full value of the 6-week intensive. If you are financially comfortable, or your employer is paying for your participation, please pay the full rate.
This fee is a meaningful energy exchange that honors the value of the time, energy and expertise our team is investing in program design, session facilitation, administrative support and participant engagement.Community Registration - $299
This significantly reduced rate is available for individuals and community groups with moderate resources.
Scholarship Registration - $149
This is a highly discounted rate for those who cannot afford the standard community rate.
If the $149 scholarship fee is still a barrier to your participation, please contact info[at]strategyandsolidarity[dot]org to request a full scholarship.
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We encourage you to attend as many live sessions as possible! Sessions will be highly interactive and you’ll get the most out of it if you plan to attend and engage as you would an in-person event.
And, if your work schedule, family obligations, timezone, or unexpected life circumstances make live attendance impossible, you are absolutely welcome to join us asynchronously!
Each session will be recorded and shared in our private virtual learning lab where we’ll continue the discussion & learning between sessions.
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No, you do not have to download the mobile app to participate.
You can also access the session recordings and private discussion space from any web browser.
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Maybe? The world is wild right now. We’re just focusing on what we can offer our community to best meet the current moment.
Probably, but we don’t have any firm dates set and
Facilitators
Carlos Kareem Windham
Carlos is the founder of El Porvenir Services and Co-Founder of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective.
Their revolutionary spirit has guided them through community centers, universities, music halls, board rooms, and government agencies around the world as a teacher, organizer and performer.
For the past 12 years, Carlos has been applying the hard-won wisdom gained over a lifetime of activism and organizing; guiding non-profits, community groups, and public agencies to create more racially just outcomes. You can also find Carlos bringing down the house at comedy clubs from Portland, Oregon to Limassol, Cyprus with their irreverent, unapologetic, and highly memorable stand-up.
Carlos is a certified trainer in the Community Resilience Model from the Trauma Resource Institute, and an initiated priest of Obatala in the Lukumi tradition.
Theresa Logan
Theresa is the founder of Subduction Consulting and Co-Founder of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective, a certified Community Resilience Model trainer and an assistant teacher at the Last Mask Center.
I was raised in the liberation theology/social justice side of the Catholic church but never felt much connection to spirit there. I felt most connected to the divine spirit of creation while camping near freshwater lakes or marveling at the vastness of the ocean.
I find great joy in dancing and singing the songs of the Orisha - who I came to know through marrying into an Afro-Cuban family. I have also been working to reclaim the blessings and gifts of my pre-colonial Irish ancestors through a working relationship with The Morrigan. I have recently completed the Cycle of Transformation with Christina Lee Pratt and the Cycle Community - an 8 year process of energy body clearing, shadow transformation and ancestral healing. I learn so much each day from plants and animals and the natural elements who are so generous in sharing their wisdom with me when I am willing to be quiet long enough to listen and receive.
I suppose I could be labeled an animist polytheist, but mostly I just strive to be a thread of true love weaving my way through the world in right relationship with the dream of all life on earth. That is what compels me to work to create a just and thriving future for all.
In addition to raising 3 remarkable teenagers and learning to better tend relationships with the land and people where I currently live, I primarily use my skills and energy to facilitate conflict transformation processes, offer skill-building workshops, and support organizations in mitigating & repairing racial harm, and leveraging their resources to advance racial justice.
Carlos Kareem Windham & Theresa Logan co-founded the Strategy & Solidarity Collective in 2024 to bring together their global networks of racial justice practitioners, artists, activists, healers and community leaders.
As a virtual global community center, the Strategy & Solidarity community app provides opportunities for our members to build community, skills, peer support networks, and effective strategy for manifesting our shared vision of a just and thriving future for all.