In 2026, Transforming Culture brings transformative justice practice to in-person spaces through multi-day workshops in six locations. Each retreat is a practice lab where activists from different movements connect, experiment with new ways of navigating conflict, and build relationships across borders. From Buenos Aires to Portland, these spaces prioritize depth over scale, creating community through shared practice and experiential learning. Workshops are open to local organizers committed to transforming not just the world, but how we show up in our organizing.
More dates and locations will be added soon.
Inner Development Goals (IDG)
This workshop explores five dimensions of inner development: being (relationship to self), thinking (cognitive skills), relating (care for others), collaborating (social skills), and acting (driving change). We'll examine how strengthening these capacities supports both our wellbeing and our ability to build liberatory movements.
Transformative Organizing
In this workshop, we explore what transformative organizing looks like. We'll practice recognizing patterns of dominant culture in our own spaces: the constant urgency that leaves no room for reflection, the binary thinking that labels people as "good" or "bad," the individualism that isolates us from collective care.
The Science of Revolution
This workshop introduces dialectical thinking and historical materialism as tools for analyzing conflict and imagining transformation. We'll explore how thesis, antithesis, and synthesis help us move beyond binary thinking and understand how systems evolve through contradiction.
Life-Centered Praxis Retreat | Portland, Oregon
This is not a typical workshop. For three days, we'll practice together. Building on the frameworks from our online sessions, we'll explore what it means to organize from connection rather than domination, from abundance rather than scarcity, from life rather than extraction.
Life-Centered Praxis Retreat | New York
This is not a typical workshop. For three days, we'll practice together. Building on the frameworks from our online sessions, we'll explore what it means to organize from connection rather than domination, from abundance rather than scarcity, from life rather than extraction.
Transformando la cultura del conflicto
Este taller interactivo introduce herramientas de justicia transformativa para navegar conflictos de manera constructiva. A través de ejercicios experienciales, análisis colectivo y juegos de roles, les participantes explorarán cómo los patrones de la cultura dominante (urgencia, perfeccionismo, pensamiento binario) impactan nuestras respuestas al conflicto y practicarán alternativas centradas en el cuidado y la responsabilidad colectiva.
Más Allá del Choque: Construyendo Comunidad a Través del Conflicto
Este taller interactivo ofrece herramientas prácticas para transformar la manera en que activistas navegan conflictos dentro de sus organizaciones y grupos.