To support all those on the front lines at protests — Right to Be is bringing back its Conflict De-escalation in Protest Spaces training — for free. The 60-minute interactive training teaches participants how to de-escalate hate and harassment at protest sites so that it doesn’t turn into violence. Conflict de-escalation requires patience, a willingness to listen, and an ability to see the humanity in everyone, even those we don’t agree with or who seek to hurt us. Using Right To Be’s Observe-Breathe-Connect methodology, this training can teach you how to identify potential conflict before it escalates using our “pyramid of escalation” and how to assess whether intervening is the right action.

Register here.

Check out other Right to Be free trainings here.  

Join WNC Votes! and the Interfaith Action Network (IAN) for a voter outreach postcard writing event! Together, we will write postcards to registered Black voters, who have historically been harmed by injustice and underrepresented across North Carolina, as part of the Center for Common Ground’s Reclaim Our Vote initiative. 

We will provide names, addresses, postcards, postage and supplies, as well as sample text for writing to voters, however, we are asking attendees to consider making a donation to help defray the cost of postage ($10 - $20 suggested), or bring some postcard stamps. There is no obligation to contribute financially. If you can help us write postcards, please come!

Join WNC Votes! for a voter outreach postcard writing event! Together, we will write postcards to registered Black voters, who have historically been harmed by injustice and underrepresented across North Carolina, as part of the Center for Common Ground’s Reclaim Our Vote initiative. 

We will provide names, addresses, postcards, postage and supplies, as well as sample text for writing to voters. For this event, UU the Vote has graciously made a grant to cover postage., however, we still will gladly accept donations to help defray the cost of postage ($10 - $20 suggested) for future events, or bring some postcard stamps.  If you can help us write postcards, please come!