Transformative Justice (TJ) is a political framework that seeks to respond to conflict, harm and violence in generative ways. This is a 12-month experimental project inviting 6-8 groups into a community learning and practice space. You can be a collective, team, friendship group, housemates, organisation, or a community formation - anyone trying to build more accountable and relational ways of being together. We will meet bi-monthly online, along with three in-person gatherings, to explicitly build long-term, collective practice in places where people are already organising.
We know that across our movements, organisations, communities and relationships, many of us are experiencing unprecedented levels of burnout, conflict, fragmentation and even harm. On top of that, increasing state surveillance and control are affecting our movements and organisations, creating additional stressors to working together towards our shared visions. Before We Fall Apart provides a tangible framework towards building processes and skills to strengthen our groups before exhaustion, conflict and disconnection push us further apart.
In this year-long programme of gatherings, co-facilitators, Nishma and Dee, will support groups to use and reflect on a range of tools with the goal of building out conflict infrastructures within their formations. The aim is to practice using these tools together, and simultaneously build the way to move through future ruptures more generatively.