(Post-event update, 1/13/26): Wow – what an event. We had 1200 people register, and a really affirming—and practical—conversation. THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by.

HERE are the full notes & slides in a Proton document. Plus a few related links:

• Proton sometimes has issues on certain browsers, so HERE are the notes as a PDF, as a backup.
• HERE is a piece I wrote for Racket synthesizing our event notes into something more like an essay.
• A summary of the event’s big-picture takeaways over on IG.
• My kind of “home base” for a lot of links and resources right now is at resources for creative troublemakers.

I’ve also done a few interviews to share what we talked about at the event:

• City Cast Twin Cities
• Convergence Magazine’s “Block and Build” Podcast
• A great conversation with Morgan at the “Art is the New Wall Street” podcast in this video:

Are We Going To Do This Again?

There was a lot of interest in another session, and of course people who couldn’t make it. Our hope is that the notes are robust enough where you get all the content there, but we also know it’s not just about content; it’s also about community. For now, we’ll see. We live in Minneapolis, and you all know there’s a lot going on here. But if other people want to hold similar discussions, there definitely seems to be some hunger for them.

Bringing this Discussion into Other Spaces

All that being said: sometimes, organizational collaboration can be a good excuse to bring the content into another space. So if you want to bring this workshop to your organization, school, or other community space, get in touch here.

We wanted to do this first installment completely independent of any org collaborators so we could experiment with the content/format, but most of my actual work is in partnership with groups, whether in-person or virtual. Thanks.

Some people will find this post because they already know me; others may be coming to this post directly from social media. If you’re the latter, here’s my bio, and the basic pitch:

I’ve spent twenty years facilitating workshops – while people might assume that means “teaching poetry classes,” creative writing has really always been just a fraction of what I do. A lot of my facilitation work in non-creative writing spaces has happened organically, via relationships, but I thought I’d set up a page here to make some of my offerings explicit.

I would love to bring any of these to your local Indivisible chapter, or DSA chapter, or neighborhood group, or church group, or student org, or informal collective, or any other progressive activist formation. Not because I’m some amazing expert or authority (I’m not!), but because these kinds of workshops can be powerful opportunities to both build practical skills and forge relationships.

The following workshops can be in-person or virtual. Get in touch!

(And of course, while this post highlights these specific offerings, you can find info on all of my other work—school residencies, performances, keynotes, etc.—at that same booking link)

(2026 update) I’m leaving this post up, but it should be noted that it’s from October 2025, and the situation here in MN has shifted quite a bit since then. A few updates:

• For people specifically looking for whistle-related resources, check out MSPwhistles.
• For people looking for more information about what “the work” looks like in MN right now (ways to show up, calls-to-action, etc.) check out the first section of my resource hub here.