Join Kelly Hayes, author, movement educator, and organizer, with the Center for Courage & Renewal’s Director of Strategic Initiatives Taylor Culliver for a conversation on the inner work of organizing and building, deepening, and repairing trust within movements. Drawing from her books Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (co-written with Mariame Kaba) and Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, Kelly brings powerful reflections on reciprocal care, principled struggle, and how we sustain ourselves and one another when the ground feels unstable.
At a moment when it’s easy to feel overwhelmed or powerless, they will share practical wisdom for taking first steps, renewing your energy, and staying grounded in movement work. The conversation will explore the role of trust in taking collective action, renewing our spirits as we organize, and the power that truth-telling and imagination hold in sustaining long-term change.
Together, They’ll Explore:
- The practices and preparation needed to engage and sustain movement work
- How to build, sustain, and repair trust within movements and why being trustworthy is foundational to effective organizing
- The challenges posed by misinformation and artificial intelligence, and our responsibility to remain grounded, discerning, and committed truth-tellers
- Why collective vision and imagining beyond crisis are essential to creating a just and equitable world
This is a registration-by-donation event. Every contribution supports the Center for Courage & Renewal in nurturing spaces of reflection, relational trust, and courageous leadership.
Make a donation of $50 or more when registering to receive your choice of one of two books by Kelly Hayes. Donate $75 or more to receive both books. The books available are Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care, co-authored by Mariame Kaba, and Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis.
A recording will be made available to all who register.
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(On April 14th at 7pm ET, participants of this conversation are invited to gather for an Open Community Drop-In to reflect and connect with others around themes uplifted in the conversation and within Kelly’s writing. The opportunity to register for this follow-up community event will be made available in your confirmation email and in communications after the event.)
The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
