Group Facilitation
Freedom Lifted builds workshops and retreats that support to organizations and groups committed to using a historical lens to build social justice leadership. With thoughtful, collaborative preparation, we design gatherings that feature grounding practices, engaging activities and meaningful reflection.
Types of Gatherings
Retreats
Nurture a new or established team with a retreat that creates space for building trust, sharing knowledge, and creating new work collaboratively.
Listening Sessions
Share decision-making power and collect input from your community that meaningfully informs new projects, policy changes, and culture shifts.
Something Special
Design a unique gathering that supports social justice leadership in your local community.
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Examples of Gatherings
Histories We’ve Never Been Told: Lessons in Leadership from Black and Latinx Feminist History
An 6-part workshop series for parent mentors on lessons in leadership from case studies about Black and Latinx women and femmes in history
2018 With/Out Borders: Towards a Futureland
A week-long gathering of land activists from 10 countries across the world
Monthly Black Space
Gatherings in cities across the US for intimate groups of Black community leaders and organizers that centered on healing, affirmation, and power-building
Public Schools in the time of COVID-19
Listening sessions for parents, students and teachers creatively addressing the challenge of keeping public schools open in the face of COVID-19
Centering Racial Justice in Philanthropy
Listening sessions for grantee partners to share with a philanthropic foundation how it can shift its relationships and processes to center racial equity and racial justice.
Past + Current Clients
Philosophy & Approach
We believe that communities who are earnestly trying to work for justice already have all the answers they need within and around them.