Summit Program

Opening Convocation
Join members of the Strategy & Solidarity Collective to open our 2025 Global Summit!

DEI & Narrative Warfare
Explore how the word "equity" gets weaponized as a wild card to win narrative battles, and strengthen your ability to analyze and counter narrative attacks on racial & social justice efforts.

Rise. Slay. Rest. Repeat.
Overcoming adversity, choosing joy, and powering through prejudice.

Becoming a Fearless Dreamer
Uncover limiting beliefs, reconnect with your creative energy, and transform fear into possibility—dare yourself to dream and create freely.

Transforming Our Approach to Community Events
Learn actionable strategies for creating events that foster engagement amid the challenges and opportunities of the current social, political and social media landscape.

From Prison to Power, a Restorative Journey
From foster care and incarceration, to social/racial justice movement work and non-profit leadership, Stephen Jerome fowler demonstrates how Restorative Justice can be a guiding compass for personal healing, relationship repair, and community building.

Peace through Parenting
As we transform to find peace in ourselves, we find more joy and ease in parenting our children - but first we have to find self-understanding and acceptance, and that's often harder than it sounds.

Holding on to Hope while Recovering from Burnout - Equity Directors Panel
Directors & consultants share their experiences navigating burnout after leading “DEI” work at large companies and public agencies.

Leading Through Chaos with your Sanity Intact
Drawing from decades of real life experience leading teams through emergencies, chaos and crises, Katie Thornton will share strategies for leading through the unknown while maintaining your integrity and your own well-being.

Community Impact Training
Learn skills and strategies to create sustainable change at the local and state levels.

Shifting The Narrative: Empowering Our Organizing Beyond Survival
Dive into the power of story at the intersection of political organizing, spirituality and embodiment.

Twerk School
Join Twerk School to master Twerknique, learn twerk drills, and connect with your body in a fun, empowering session.

Gatekeeper of Your Reality: Unlocking the R.A.S.
Learn how to work with your brain’s Reticular Activating System (R.A.S.) to focus on what you want, filter out what you don’t, and shift from default patterns to conscious creation.

Supporting Black Children in Schools
Framing and tools to empower parents, guardians, educators, and community members to actively support Black children, disrupt harmful stereotypes, and foster resilience and self-advocacy.

Carnival Was Always a Protest
Join Couch2Carnival for a dynamic Caribbean dance workout combined with insights on Carnival’s history and the importance of wellness as resistance.

White Supremacy on Wheels
Join the co-founders of the ONLY disability service provider in the US that is openly and freely operating at the intersection of systemic racism and disability in a presentation on the manifestation of white supremacy that nobody wants to talk about.

HR For the People
Learn how HR can strengthen protections, create safer workspaces, and play a vital role in supporting the most vulnerable and targeted employees.
The Power of Your Sphere
Interactive activities, reflection, and practical tools to explore how your individual actions create ripples of change in your workplace, community, and beyond.

People of the Broken Path
Humans are adaptive. We often fragment to cope with tauma and stress. But even in the most complex life, we can find our way back to wholeness.

Dreaming is not a privilege, it's a priority
In times of burnout and systemic fatigue, the act of imagining becomes a radical return to self and collective visioning. Dreaming is not a luxury for the privileged—it is our responsibility to the future.

Remain in Light: Buddhism and Activism!
How can spiritual practice and social engagement mutually support one another in the face of suffering and injustice? Mindfulness practices can help activists avoid burnout, stay centered, and respond skillfully to injustice.

Consent in the Face of Collapse
A ceremonial exploration of collapse as cultural transformation, this offering invites participants to reimagine consent as a living technology for navigating the death of empire and co-creating something sovereign, relational, and new. Rooted in poetic witnessing and communal inquiry, we gather not to survive—but to re-ember.
The Present & Historic Heritage of Our Harmony
Captivating live performance, insightful discussion, and hands-on creative exercises, uncover the deep historical roots, innovative spirit, and unifying power of Black musical tradition.

Philanthopy as Solidarity
Heather Infantry, CEO of Giving Gap, and Sharde Nabors, Resource Redistribution Director for New Economy Coalition, join us to discuss how Black non-profits are faring in the legal attacks against reparative funding efforts, and why its more important than ever to find ways to support Black-led organizations in 2025.

From Inclusion to Interdependence
Instructors from the Mighty Impacts Continuum share practical tools and frameworks for how social enterprises can serve as testing grounds for power-sharing, economic redistribution, and cultural shift.

Identity + Strategy: What now?
Let's explore how the remnants of the DEI movement can catalyze new ways to educate and activate identity as part of justice work.

Core Spiritual Practices for Activists
Core spiritual practices for activists, including personal alignment, spiritual hygiene, boundaries, protection, and offensive tactics.

Immersive Healing - a guided meditation for your body, mind and soul
Cultivate the feeling of safety in your body, shed self-limiting beliefs, and resonate with the energies of love, community and connection.

Building Resilient Community in 2025
Gain clarity in your vision, values, and role in collective spaces.

Kaiut Yoga
Kaiut yoga focuses on gentle and controlled movements, often using props to support the body.

Irreverent Art for Hope
Art is for everyone with something to say. Let's create art that uplifts our spirits and create hope for a better future.

Sacred Rage for people pleasers in an Apocalypse
A ritual workshop to explore the purpose, power and needs of anger, and identify, befriend, & alchemize our scared rage as a community.

Documentary Showing - Bad Indian
Exclusive screening of Bad Indian (2025) with an introduction and Q&A session with its creator.

Breathe Deep: Regulating the Nervous System for Resilience and Resistance
Somatic breathing practices and energetic safety techniques to help you regulate your nervous system for the resistance.

Building Solidarity Among Transracial & Intercountry Adoptees
A panel of transracial/intercountry adoptees share their unique experiences of being separated from their birth nations and cultures, wrestling with their American privilege, and navigating racialized experiences with white parents.

Disposables, Disparities, and Disruption
Product innovation can reflect cultural heritage, environmental urgency, and economic empowerment—especially when led by women of color navigating the biases of mainstream entrepreneurship.

Responsible Storytelling
Gain a deeper understanding of ethical practices and trauma-informed storytelling while building community and reflecting on your current practices.

Disability Justice & Access Art
Learn more about Disability Justice and Access Art directly from the perspectives of Disabled people.

Audio Dramas: A Tool for Organizing & Making Struggles Come to Life!
Transform your organizing stories into audio dramas that captivate and mobilize.

Say More Than Their Name: Storytelling With Accountability & Power
Explore narrative power mapping and learn to tell stories that are culturally relevant and community-rooted—without exploiting the communities you aim to serve.

Writing for Liberation
Explore how writing can serve as a tool, a pathway, psalm, and a light towards liberation.

Embodied Activism
Accessible mind/heart/body/spirit skills for connection to self, each other and the land to support your work for racial & social justice.

What If It Hadn’t Happened?
Through story and stillness, explore neurodivergence, collapse, and reclamation.
Style as Rebellion
Throughout American history, Blackness, queerness, and Native understanding of fashion and gender have served as declarations of pride, and declarations of war.