At Threads of Justice Collective, we believe that cultural work and cultural organizing are central elements of liberatory education and anti-oppression work. It is everybody's work. In our use of cultural work, we are drawing on the ideas of Paolo Friere, Augusto Boal, and the Highlander Educational Center along with our own emerging experiences. In our workshops or gatherings you may find us inviting you to sing, dance, collage, make murals, work with clay, do theater and imaging, or write poetry. These invitations are two fold:

1. To inspire the expression of your own story: who you are, how you resist oppression, how you grieve your experience of - or participation in - oppression, share your struggles, and your work in healing.

2. To build community with others: share energy that can shift people, power and ideas, recognize the potential and power of unity, amplify access in all spaces for all people.

These practices are embedded in all of our services:

We believe that social change requires not only education but also human liberation. That means we include practices such as storytelling, critical self-inquiry, and many forms of creative expression.

In-Depth Social Identity Work: We cannot do this important work without doing our own work and learning around what stories and experiences have impacted our values, beliefs, and implicit (and explicit) biases. Through reflection, learning, and unlearning - identity work is closely tied with anti-bias practice.

Identity Affinity Group Work: We all have work to do - but that work looks different depending on your identities within social identity groups. Affinity work allows for us to dive more deeply into the work of healing, repairing, or speaking and acting out against oppression - without putting undue responsibility on marginalized identities.

Co-Facilitators: TOJC practices include a facilitation team of at least two to ensure more perspective and diversity and to promote nurturing and mentoring for those new to this role.

Accessibility and affordability: Fees for TOJC Services will be as flexible as possible to increase accessibility. Please let us know what your needs and resources are.

We are not here to help people check a box - this is not one and done work. It is never ending, ongoing work and learning. It is important to create a cycle of reflection and action to continue down this road.

In this course participants will work on the development of a leadership action plan for implementing anti-bias/anti-oppression work in their chosen leadership context.