Fierce Allies

ring and mutual accountability from any position of privilege or authority. Once trained as Emotional Warriors, participants will have a hunger and capacity for fiercely honest dialogue with the other side. Supported by facilitated conflict-transformation processes, participants will learn from, and attend to, contemporary and historical breaches of trust that have occurred between individuals and groups. They will also deconstruct the systems of power and accountability that inhibit their relationships. Ultimately they will design and implement new organizing models that hold mutual accountability, and power-sharing as paramount. Together they will create and nurture a culture in which cycles of dominance/oppression are replaced with healing cycles and diversity is able to harmoniously thrive. Fierce Allies affords oppressed people the power to reclaim responsibility for their own liberation. It invites people with privilege to engage in the struggle of equality and justice from positions other than shame, blame and hero. It trains both in a body of practices that allow for trust building through fiercely honest dialogue.