Passion & Power Institute

If you want your Black, queer, and other marginalized community members to experience radical safety but you struggle to 'hold your community members accountable' when they perpetuate white supremacy culture and other systems of oppression it's probably because you have only learned about community accountability through the lens of policing systems, punitive justice, and cancel culture.

So you see confrontation as inherently blame, shame and punishment-driven when it doesn't have to be.

Or maybe you struggle to support your community members in accountability when they cause harm because you've learned that it's not safe for you to challenge oppressive language, actions, and practices when you see it. In your communities and organizations, your efforts to disrupt oppressive cultural norms are often met with gaslighting, judgment, and rejection from folks who say they're invested in a more just world.

Instead of actually addressing the harm you brought attention to, folks try to characterize you and your delivery as the central problem. You're tired of being labeled rude, confrontational, or divisive no matter how polite or palatable you try to be in your pursuit of collective liberation.

In turn, you've gotten sucked into a cycle of people-pleasing where you constantly shrink and silence yourself because you've started prioritizing the feelings of folks who need to be accountable at the expense of your values, your needs, and the marginalized communities you support. 

I'm here to help you radically shift these dynamics so you can transform your relationship with accountability!

Because when you know how to:

• Define your unique strengths as changemaker and disrupt harm while grounding yourself in restorative justice values 
• Reframe your call outs as an act of community care (instead of shame, blame, and punishment)
• Determine what accountability strategies you should prioritize and when to use them as you encounter harm across different contexts and community relationships

Then you can confidently confront your community members who cause harm in a way that feels less accusatory, overwhelming, and stressful for everyone.

This workshop will teach you the restorative justice-driven accountability strategies you need and how to implement them sustainably so you can call out harm, navigate conflict, and initiate tough accountability conversations with less shame and stress in your professional or social community spaces.