Offering Popular Education Workshops, Training, and Consultations
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“Education is the first step in organizing and popular education methodology is at the core of our work for racial and economic justice.”
- Jeannette Huezo, UFE Executive Director and Senior Popular Educator
We help workers understand the policies that have created the problems that they face every day.
Using popular education — with healing for liberation and language justice tools — we facilitate workshops, trainings, and transformative learning experiences for movement leaders and organizations.
Popular Economics Education
Popular education is a critically important tool for base-building in the economic justice movement. Rather than sitting through lectures, popular education workshops use participants’ own experiences in the economy as the starting point for building shared analysis to support collective action for change. Ordinary people define their own problems and apply the lessons of past political successes and failures to their own situation. Popular education is openly political – popular educators see the learners as powerful people who can change the social conditions that surround them.
Our Economics for Everyone Workshops meet the pressing needs of communities most impacted by economic injustices for action-oriented political education — to reflect on experiences, build collective critical understanding of economic and social structures, develop community-based leadership, and strategize for action.
Healing for Liberation and Cultural Organizing
Too often, building a fair economy is treated as separate from the well-being of those who lead the way. We have learned that our work to imagine and build liberated futures requires us to make space for individual and collective healing from the traumas created by economic greed and systematic oppression – resource extraction, land theft, militarism, slavery and its legacies in low-pay work, carceral systems, white supremacy, and more. Movement organizations need tools to work through conflict, and to prioritize the humanity and well-being of staff and leaders.
Our Healing for Liberation and Cultural Organizing practices include: circle work; restorative justice processes; generative approaches to conflict; community altars and connections to indigenous and spiritual practices, to land; collective practices and rituals; self-care and collective care; meditation; and somatic practices.
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.” – Grace Lee Boggs
Watch UFE’s Personal & Collective Healing for Liberation.
Language Justice
UFE is a movement leader committed to language justice, creating multilingual spaces to learn and build together as an essential part of working for racial and economic justice. We use simultaneous two-way interpretation (Spanish and English), for which all participants who are not bilingual in these languages wear headsets, to be more inclusive and democratic.
Learn more about our recent Popular Education, Healing Justice, and Language Justice work:
> MAKING CONNECTIONS AND LEARNING POPULAR EDUCATION AT THE FALL TRAINING OF TRAINERS
> ANNOUNCING OUR NEW CURRICULUM FOR FACILITATING LEARNING AND ACTION ABOUT ANTI-BLACKNESS WITH LATINX COMMUNITIES
> 90 Seconds of Movement Building for Economic Justice with UFE
> Listening to the immigrant community: Using popular education to transform the City of Somerville