We are a collective of diverse trainers and facilitators committed to building communal and individual capacity to attend to the impact and harm of othering, conflict and burn out that happens in movements and organisations working for climate, racial and social justice.
Announcing a Vancouver Chapter of Fierce Vulnerability Network
What would direct actions be like if we structure them as ceremony? What would be different if their goals were healing and collective liberation? How do we build movements where all people never question their belonging? How do we offer respite from our culture of domination and the “us vs them” binary? What happens when we lead with vulnerability and care in the face of crisis and division?
Necessary Trouble Collective is launching a Vancouver chapter of the Fierce Vulnerability Network (FVN). Our desire comes from working with activists in Vancouver-based movement spaces and witnessing the need and longing for healing, belonging and liberation. See below for links to register for our information zoom calls.
A 6 week offering led by Leonie Smith for Black, Indigenous, People of Colour who are looking for a learning and exploring environment that is liberation focused and built around their needs.
If you are curious about NVC, interested in how to explore ways of being that celebrate all that you are in the face of systems that do not see you, please join!
To find out more information and to register, please click the link below to be taken to the POC4NVC webpage.
Nonviolent Communication for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour
Fierce Vulnerability Vancouver Chapter
If the description above of Fierce Vulnerability resonates with you, Leonie and I are hosting 3, one hour information calls to help you discern if you want to be a part of creating and shaping the Vancouver chapter of FVN. We hope you will register to join one of the calls. Clicking on the date and time that you are available and it will take you to a Zoom call registration page:
Movements of Belonging
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Ongoing
NTC brought together a group of 15 movement leaders from the Greater Vancouver region in January 2025 to build community and improve the resilience of local organisations.
Research into the event’s impact is ongoing, and new cohorts may be formed in the future.
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We attend to impact and harm by supporting the learning of skills, practices and systems that subvert structures and habits of dominance, right/wrong thinking, shaming and blaming, and reward and punishment.
We offer training, coaching and group facilitation that allow individuals and organizations to attend to impact and harm as it arises, building trust and connection. When there is a foundation of trust and connection, challenges and conflicts become sources of inspiration, creativity, learning and growth.
