Once the sale of the Tivoli Housing Co-op was complete in 2014, the Common Fire Foundation shifted its focus dramatically, limiting itself to providing basic support for the Beacon Co-Housing community. The Foundation previously had a much more expansive vision of helping to support the creation of numerous intentional communities nationwide that shared our values related to communities as a foundation for personal and collective transformation. The information on this page represents our PREVIOUS more expansive vision and is provided here in the hopes that it may help to support or inspire other people’s efforts in this field.
Sunday, March 25
10:00am – 6:00pm
Tivoli, NY
2 hrs north of NYC
www.commonfire.org/directions
Cost: Sliding Scale $70-$120
Scholarships and work-trade available
Space is strictly limited. To register or for more information:
(845) 554-3406 certificate@commonfire.org
Individual trainings are open to the public, though most have limited capacity and priority is given to program participants, so please register as soon as you decide you would like to join us.
The Trainer
Jenna Peters-Golden works with AORTA, a collective of trainers devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. They work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training and planning. They base their trainings on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression
Jenna is an organizer, trainer, anti-Zionist Jewish rabble-rouser and artist with an inexhaustive amount of energy for exploring, taking things apart, and putting them back together. Firmly planted in West Philadelphia, Jenna was raised in southeastern Michigan. Politicized around the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2001, she came out of her shell by way of youth-led anti war organizing. As national intern for the Young Democratic Socialists of America Jenna became committed to radical participatory democracy in all of its forms.
She has organized regionally and nationally for the new Students for a Democratic Society, the Rainforest Action Network andStudent Environmental Action Coalition around PowerShift. She has been inspired by working with organizations like Casino Free Philadelphia and the Ruckus Society, and is a member of the political study group Marginal Notes. Jenna is also a core member of Philly Stands Up a transformative justice collective.
In 2010, Jenna was a recipient of the the Leeway Foundation's Art and Change grant.
Jenna also served as a track coordinator for the Growing Safer Communities Track at the 2011 Allied Media Conference. Jenna has presented at events such as the U.S. Social Forum 2010, NASCO Institute, Communities United Against Violence’s Safety Fest 2011, and the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 2011.
Currently Jenna’s favorite workshops to facilitate are: Radical Human Resources, Anti-Oppression Meeting Facilitation, Strategic Planning, Anti-Oppression Fundamentals, National Organizing and Large Scale Campaigns, and Democratic Education.
The Training
This workshop aims to help us better understand patterns of oppression in the world today and to be more effective at transcending those patterns in our own lives and in the world. We’ll have the opportunity to more deeply explore our own identities, investigate ways we’ve internalized various forms of oppression in our views and behaviors, and ways those connect with larger patterns and systems of oppression. We'll look at the relationship between oppression and privilege, and we’ll look at what our personal barriers are to overcoming oppression within ourselves and in the world, and develop strategies for addressing them.
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