Trainings are offered on a regular basis through my office.  You can also set up an in-service for your group or organization. Trainings are available on a sliding scale.

Training Bio:
Cristien has over two decades of experience in community work on anti-violence, social change, and human rights issues.  She is a founding member and former Executive Director of Home Alive, a Seattle based non-profit that provides self defense classes within an anti-oppression framework.  As a facilitator, Cristien has developed community based anti-violence curricula that addresses the broad scope of how violence, trauma, abuse, and secondary trauma inform the structures of our relationships, our organizations and our progressive movements.

Cristien was also a Researcher and Cultural Organizer for the Northwest Coalition For Human Dignity.  NWCHD worked to expand civil and human rights and end malicious harassment and hate violence by supporting grassroots human rights efforts to vigorously challenge both the ideology and the activities of hate groups, the radical religious right, and other anti-democratic organizations or movements.

In addition to providing trainings, Cristien is a writer and therapist with a private practice in Seattle.  She also runs If You Don’t They Will, a Seattle partnership providing support for communities responding to hate.

Workshop Descriptions:
Boundary Setting, Self-Care & Social Change: The workshop offers practical skills grounded in anti-oppression analysis.  Participants practice boundary setting strategies while attending to larger social and political contexts that deeply inform how we take care of ourselves.

Building Bridges between Self-Care & Radical Social Change:  By linking boundary setting and cultural organizing, the workshop highlights the centrality of culture to radical social movements’ imaginations of liberation. It considers the profound impact art, music and culture have on how people and communities heal from violence, resist oppression, and work towards social justice.