We want to facilitate more local connection for ourselves and those around us. We want to spread the community-building skills of interpersonal support, communication, and constructive conflict.
The most reliable way to know about upcoming events is to join our events google group. Email events@walkingseed.org with how you heard about us or what interests you about connecting with us to request to join.
Here you’ll find posting of events, upcoming or passed, depending on how regularly we update the page.
For potlucks, any food is welcome, but alcohol is not.
EXAMPLE EVENTS
Discussion: Strategies for Opposition
Join us for dinner and connection. After dinner, we’ll discuss how fascism functions, why we have to do more than just defeat fascism to escape the neoliberal-fascist cycle, why we have to work in groups, and showcase opportunities to join oppositional efforts.
Rays of Sunshine
Share food, build connection, make acquaintances. In addition to your potluck contribution you’re invited to share something(s) that brings you hope, bolsters your morale, or reminds you of what is important. Could be news, a personal item, a piece of art, an idea, a poem, a book, anything. If you’re feeling too down to do so, come anyways and maybe someone else’s ray of sunshine will warm your heart.
TWorking Families Party Virtual Events
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a grassroots political party building a multiracial movement of working people to transform America for the liberation of our people and the planet. Welcome Gatherings are an energetic space where you can meet other working people with the same vision of building a world where we can thrive, and not just survive. Join us as we participate in one of the WFP’s national online gatherings.
Cooperative Board Games
Like playing with your friends, but don’t always like the experience of trying to defeat each other? We have a bunch of co-op and social games to show and let you try. Bring some too if you want!
Workshop: Basics of Peer Mediation
What can we do when two people we know are getting agitated with each other? We’ll introduce a few basic options and do role-plays from there. You’re welcome to bring situations you want to work with.
Workshop: Building Healthy Group Dynamics
Think about groups you’ve been a part of and what’s gone well or poorly. We’ll introduce a notion of several factors that help sustain healthy group dynamics, and discuss or apply them as participants are interested.
Crafternoon and Snacks
Bring your craft to work on! Collage and paint materials will be available.
Improv Games
Ever want to be in Who’s Line Is It Anyway? Come blow off some steam with non-serious acting games and laughter.
Motivation
Capitalism has always been tyrannical, ever widening inequality and legalized oppression/extraction. Instead of seeing and treating people transactionally, we need to find our way to a culture and systems that reject transactionality and care for each other relationally. Elements of that caring culture have always remained in ours, no matter how oppressive things have become. While we don’t know how to get fully there, we do believe that strengthening our local relational network is a critical step. Please join us in learning, growing, and befriending.