Thursday, November 12, 5:30-7:30pm LEAF Harm Reduction (211 E. Michigan Ave., across from Family Dollar with parking on N. Park St.)
The ICPJ Care and Freedom Circle is hosting a follow-up to the WCSO dashboard training.
During this session, we will gather ideas from the community about what we’d like to see in a dashboard about policing behaviors and data that would need to be gathered/tracked in order to make it possible. We will also use a couple of scenarios to explore the different dashboards in the county and how they can be useful for organizers.
Join us on November 7 for Connect & Act and an ICPJ member meeting!
1-5pm: Connect & Act
5:15pm: Dinner is available
5:30-7:30pm: Member meeting (including voting) – virtual option available
Please see information for both events below, and RSVP on Givebutter so we know to expect you.
CONNECT & ACT: PEACE TAKES PRACTICE
Each year, we offer an opportunity for our members and partners to learn and practice together. This year, Connect & Act: Peace Takes Practice will focus on building our conflict resilience skills. Our facilitator will be Kulkiran Nakai, whose photo and bio you can find below:
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Kulkiran Nakai (pronounced: Cuul-KEER-ren Nah-Khai | pronouns: they/any), Psy.D., LP is the founder of Azaad Healing Justice Studio, a mental health private practice located on the unceded lands of the traditional Anishinaabe peoples of Southeast Michigan. Kulkiran is honored to serve as a liberation-focused psychologist, healing justice practitioner, transformative conflict mediator, and performance artivist specializing in trauma-responsive experiential therapy that integrates somatic internal family systems, group action methods, intercultural spirituality, energy work, play practices, and plant-medicines. Through embodying the principles of clowning and loving-justice, Kulkiran takes pleasure in alchemizing oppressive systems by befriending pain and building upon life-affirming experiences of healing and liberation across inner-child, interpersonal, intergenerational, collective, and ancestral levels.
Kulkiran will guide us through an interactive workshop to help us better understand our nervous systems, our conflict styles, and conflict itself. We’ll gain tools for navigating conflict with curiosity, compassion, equanimity, and integrity.
We will also dive into the ICPJ Conflict Resilience Policy and have an opportunity for members of the ICPJ Facilitator’s Lab Cohort to lead a practice for reflection & integration.
Finally, we’ll share a meal together and move into the membership meeting portion of the evening.
the ICPJ 2026-2027 Transition Governance Structure Proposal, which we will vote on during the meeting
the November 2026 Secretary Nomination
an ICPJ circle visualization
a more detailed schedule for the membership meeting portion of the evening
If you have any questions or would like to request the membership meeting information in a different format (email or printed copy), please email info@icpj.org!
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