New conversation groups!
Starting October of 2025, Apokalypsis is hosting weekly community conversations for white-identifying people.
Facilitated by Ronin, these multi-monthly gatherings will go beyond one-time equity trainings by providing sustained opportunities to practice accountability, resilience, and care in community.
The intention of having these conversations multiple times a month is to allow us to come together and share, and then go out into the world with new levels of awareness and accountability, and then come together again to share what we noticed, continually growing and learning.
Through guided conversations, somatic practices, and shared learning, participants will:
- be introduced to new skills, and
- be given a place to practice their capacity to be more self-aware in workplaces, schools, and community spaces.
By creating this ongoing, compassionate space for white-identifying people to engage in this work together, we aim to help reduce racialized harm and remove emotional labor burdens on BIPOC community members, to foster long-term culture change.
Topics are in response to recent feedback from folks of color on ways in which white folks are unknowingly impacting them in a negative way in the Lane County area (you don’t have to live in Lane County to participate).
What to expect
- Two or four Sundays a month (with some exceptions)
- 1.5 hours per gathering
- No attendance requirement
- Supplemental resources (e.g., videos, articles)
- Embodiment practices
- On Zoom
- Free, and donations welcome
- We are taking a break in December, but will be back in January– stay tuned!
Dates and times for December
Topic: We will build on November’s topic (see below), adding the layer of whiteness with the context of ways in which we have overcome challenges and acceptance (e.g., neurodivergence, queerness, poverty, accessibility).
- December 11th and 25th (Sundays)
- 4-5:30pm PST
Topic/dates/times for November
Topic: When we white people think we’re being helpful. This will include offering unsolicited advice, people-pleasing/fawning, urgency, perfectionism, and oversharing. Listen to a 15-minute podcast episode on this topic here:
(These groups are not about shaming ourselves or others– they are about building capacity, in community, to understand how we might be negatively impacting folks of color.)
- November 2, 9, 16, and 23 (Sundays)
- 2-3:30pm PST
- Zoom
- You don’t need to attend all of them, but the more you attend, the more you’ll get out of them
- Free, and donations welcome
- We are taking a break in December, but will be back in January– stay tuned!