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Freedom Movements!
We invite you to create more justice and joy in the world with us...

Next Public Workshop
in Collaboration with Embraced Body:
Facilitating Accessible, Interactive, Embodied Online Workshops
September 1, online
5-7pm PT // 8-10pm ET
ASL & Spanish Interpretation Provided

image of a diverse group of disabled folks using various mobility or other disability aids. one person's service dog is in the illustration, too. All on a cream background with a bright, colorful gradient at the top and bottom of the page. Text reads: Creating Freedom Movements and Embraced Body present: Facilitating Accessible, Interactive, Embodied Online Workshops September 1 || 5-7 PM PT || 8-10 PM ET In English, with live ASL & Spanish Interpretation + automated Zoom captions. Recording provided to all registrants. Swipe for more information! Register: bit.ly/AccessibleOnlineFacilitation (case sensitive!) Sliding Scale of $5-$50 USD. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

cream background with a bright, colorful gradient at the top and bottom of the page. Text reads: About the Workshop: Accessible facilitation is more than accommodations -- it's about creating online spaces where everyone can participate, connect, and belong. Grounded in Disability Justice, this interactive two-hour workshop explores practical strategies for designing engaging virtual experiences that embrace multiple ways of learning, communicating, moving, and participating. Through discussion, reflection, and real-world facilitation scenarios, participants will examine how collective access, participant choice, and flexibility can transform online learning environments. You'll leave with practical tools and a Disability Justice-informed framework for facilitating virtual workshops, trainings, meetings, and community gatherings that are responsive, inclusive, and engaging for people with diverse body/minds and access needs.

Close up shot of India Harville, Black cis woman smiling with long wavy black locs wearing a sleeveless purple top with soft natural light on her face. Text reads: Meet India! India Harville (she/her) is the Founder and Executive Director of Embraced Body, a Black Disabled-led arts and consulting organization rooted in Disability Justice. A queer, multiply Disabled facilitator, consultant, and dancer, India has more than twenty years of experience helping people and organizations build spaces where more bodies, minds, and ways of participating can belong. Her work blends practical access strategies, embodied learning, and intersectional awareness. She supports facilitators in moving beyond accommodation toward designing interactive workshops where access is built in from the start, and participants can engage through multiple forms of communication, movement, reflection, and connection.

JJ Omelagah, a Black trans person with short hair, smiles at the camera wearing glasses, a lavender shirt, black tie, and charcoal gray vest, standing in a bright indoor space with blurred plants in the background. Text reads: Meet JJ! JJ Omelagah (they/them) is the Program Director and Access Doula at Embraced Body, where they lead collective access coordination for staff, artists, and community gatherings. A Black, trans, neurodivergent facilitator, access coordinator, and sound artist, JJ brings nearly two decades of experience in access work, human services, and healthcare work. They've coordinated access for organizations including Sins Invalid, Movement Research, and UCLA's Dancing Disability Lab. Their approach blends practical access coordination, deep listening, and embodied participation. JJ helps groups build access in from the start, offering multiple ways to communicate, move, and connect, rather than retrofitting it later.

Our Mission

We cultivate holistic, visionary leaders through an intensive and intimate cohort experience centering those most impacted by multiple oppressions. We grow beloved community & cross-issue solidarity, and incubate justice & joy projects that push our world in a liberatory direction.

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Cohort Workshop Areas

Our 18-month intensive cohort program for emerging and established grassroots change-makers consists of weekly workshops, as well as support as cohort members create Justice & Joy projects in their communities. Workshops cover four broad areas:

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Social Movement
History & Analysis
We will develop an understanding of how current realities of injustice, exploitation and oppression are created and maintained. We will also study past and present social movements to learn about how we can create change.

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Healing Practices
We will cultivate individual and collective habits that can sustain us through the challenges of social justice work and life itself. These practices will help us stay grounded and connected as we work with each other across differences, priorities, and needs.

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The Arts
We will learn about the role of the arts in social change and develop our creative and expressive capacities through various arts workshops. This area will also expand our imaginations, empathy, and emotional resilience.

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Practical Skills
We will develop practical skills that can help us divest from oppressive institutions and build alternative ones. Workshops include community organizing, growing our own food, how to fund our justice work, nonviolent direct action and much more.

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Cohort Facilitators

Creating Freedom Movements works in collaboration with over 40 respected social justice activists, educators, artists, healers, and grassroots organizations.

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I cannot express my gratitude enough for our CFM community, especially at this time. Not only does it feel good to see people’s faces on a weekly basis, but knowing that I can show up authentically (in my varying capacities while navigating the micro- and macro-impacts of medical and socio-racial crisis). CFM makes room for that. This is what love looks like. And my life will never be the same! This curriculum is transformative and CFM are forever my beloved community.

–Sierra, 2020 Cohort

Is Creating Freedom Movements For Me?

Do you want to expand your skill-sets and deepen relationships with folks who share visions for Racial, Gender, Disability, Economic, & Transformative Justice?

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We are committed to keeping this program accessible to all, and to paying the artists, educators and activists who work with us a living wage. To avoid mission drift and keep building a movement of people invested in this work, our fundraising philosophy prioritizes cultivating individual donors.

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Welcome to Creating​Freedom Movements!We invite you to create more justice and joy in the world with us...

Next Public Workshopin Collaboration with Embraced Body:Facilitating Accessible, Interactive, Embodied Online WorkshopsSeptember 1, online5-7pm PT // 8-10pm ETASL & Spanish Interpretation Provided