Mycelial Organizing: Care, Power, & Collective Futures is a collective learning and strategy space that builds care & resistance frameworks for community organizers navigating sustained stress, urgency, and fragmentation.   

This workshop is led by IP artist and. mentor Bhavana Goparaju.  She is an accomplished filmmaker and writer who has developed this workshop series.

This second workshop continues to draw inspiration from mycelial networks, experiences, insights and lessons from the Global south and Civil rights movements, immigrant and BIPOC survival practices, and long-arc movement thinking, this interactive session reframes care as infrastructure, repair as political skill, and connection as power laying strategic foundations for sustainable collective work. 

The workshop centers shared capacity, collective pacing, and decentralized strength, so organizers are not asked to carry collective work alone inside systems that isolate responsibility.

Sessions include:

• Story circle-Guided collective reflection grounded in lived organizing experience

• Mapping of care, labor, and connection within organizing ecosystems

• Group exercises that strengthen shared responsibility and long-term thinking

• Space for participants to translate insights into their own organizing contexts

This activity is intended to build belonging and familiarity while we all work to move through difficult times.