Training Schedule

Daily schedule: (times are estimates and times and content subject to change)

 

8-10 am: breakfast and morning circle

10-12 am: zegg forum

12-6 pm: climb trainings

6-8 pm: dinner and evening circle

 

Special events:

 

Sept 4: Interrupting Racism & Oppression workshop

Sept 7: Non-Violent Direct Action w/ Portland Rising Tide

Sept 8: Forest Carbon Science Workshop and History of the Forest Defense Movement in the Pacific Northwest

 

Topics for facilitated conversations and/or covered in workshops:

 

  • Antiracism and indigenous relations
    • Trainings:
      • Indigenous sovereignty (ie. treaty rights, government-to-government relations, legal processes, suggested protocols, diversity of sovereign structures, complexity of tribal governments and relations with traditional bodies, etc.)
      • Antiracism (ie. broader anti-colonial perspective, unsettling whiteness, making our internal organizing more accessible to black/brown/indigenous participants, interrupting racism at our events, etc.)
      • Environmental Justice 101 (ie. ecological damage disproportionately impacts POCs, shift in perspective to center POC needs, problems with urban liberal white environmentalism, etc.)
    • Working with Warm Springs specifically
      • Reminder that confederation of Wasco (Upper Chinookan speakers), Warm Springs (Sahaptin speakers), and N. Paiute tribes.
  • Consent culture/antipatriarchy
  • Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA)
  • Climb trainings
  • Blockades
  • Know Your Rights (KYR)
    • How to not talk to cops
    • How to talk to cops once in the system?
    • Much larger issue: jail solidarity
  • Security culture
  • Forests, climate, and fire
    • ​​​​​​​Science backgrounder
  • Consensus, decision-making, facilitation
  • History of forest defense movement in Pacific NW
  • Deeper spirit connections
    • Plant walks
    • Grief work
    • Spiritual practices that have helped long-term activists
  • Energetic roles
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​How to help people appreciate the diversity of skills/ways that people bring to organizing. Esp. extroverts to appreciate quieter ways.