Toran Ailisheva
Toran Ailisheva
Anti-Oppression Educator + Activist
Toran identifies as a white, queer, genderfluid anti-oppression educator and expressive arts and somatic therapist with a background in radical mental health and community and labor organizing. They are on the leadership team of Flying Over Walls, a Queer/Trans Prisoner Solidarity Project in the SF Bay Area, and served as a longtime core member and facilitator with the White Noise Collective. They believe in healing as a path to liberation and that no one has to navigate it alone.
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Toran Ailisheva
Skills & Strategies for Difficult Conversations
What frameworks and tools can support us to connect with others on challenging topics like systems of oppression? We will focus on: *Noticing physiological signs of nervous system activation, the overlap with expressions of privilege-related fragility, and grounding skills to support regulation *Understanding default vs intentional practices to strengthen capacity, skill, and presence in interpersonal connection *Utilizing the Spectrum of Allies framework to apply interventions strategically
Understanding Identity, Privilege & Colonization
We will integrate writing, art and group discussion to explore the ways that colonization and other systems of oppression operate in all of our lives and to more deeply relate to both the privileged and marginalized aspects of our identities. How do we learn to turn with curiosity towards the discomfort and build awareness of the costs of maintaining the system as it is in order to rehumanize and reclaim our complex wholeness and support our commitments to interrupting systems of oppression?