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The second Sunday of each month from 10am-12pm PST
July Session
July 11, 2026 from 11am-1pm PT / 2-4 pm ET
With Kazu Haga, author of ‘Fierce Vulnerability’, and Fierce Vulnerability Network (FVN) Facilitators & Friends
July Practice: Fierce Vulnerability.
Together, we’ll deepen into the book’s principles through embodiment practices, guest speaker interviews and small-group conversations to support learning and transformation.
Participants will be guided in forming kinship pods of 3-8 (in your geographical region, when possible) to co-create community-inspired action projects. These experiments could range from a grief ritual, a community conversation, a song circle or other possibilities that invite a lived experience of Fierce Vulnerability.
Why Join?
- Strengthen kinship ties both locally and globally
- Cultivate relational skills that you can use in all types of collaborations
- Gain insights about yourself and deepen your connection with others
- Grow aligned community within an intentional, playful container
The Core Elements
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Overview
An overview of the relational practice, guidance and breakout instructions.
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Breakout Groups
Either join with others in your region, or connect with others virtually.
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Harvest
We’ll share reflections, insights and lessons learned from the practice and breakouts.
In times of profound complexity, our response to the collective challenges we face must evolve—toward healing, not division.
Yet too often, activism and social movements reinforce an “us vs. them” mentality, driving us further apart when what we most need is connection.
Fierce Vulnerability offers a path forward that merges the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the insights of trauma healing and the grounding of spiritual practice.
With nuance and compassion, Fierce Vulnerability invites us to see these critical times as a catalyst for healing–of both personal wounds and systemic fractures. Together, we can shape movements that center relationships, where care, courage, and kinship become the foundation for meaningful change.
Meet Your July Guides
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Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse. He has over 25 years of experience in nonviolence and social change work. He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA, where he lives with his family.
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Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong commitment to spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and activists, as well as artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. Her upcoming events and teachings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.
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Francis Weller is a writer and soul activist who has worked as a psychotherapist for more than 40 years. He's the author of many books and projects including the beloved grief text, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief.
Francis is currently on staff at Commonweal Cancer Help Program. He also founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western poetic, psychological, and spiritual traditions.
His most recent collection is In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty.
Register to Join
This program is offered in the Gift Economy
Open to all, donations accepted
Register by
If you cannot join live, we’ll send out a recording too all who registered (not including breakout rooms)
Frequently asked questions
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Examples might include:
Connecting over a meal with prompts for sharing and then doing this together in a public space that might invite others to join/witness/inquire/participate
Fiercely vulnerable public offerings, which might look like public rituals or grief ceremonies, nonviolent actions that invite healing or a public art installation
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Tuesdays (+ 2 Fridays - April 3 and 17)
11am–1pm PT / 2–4pm ET
8 sessions across 3 months (weekly at first, then bi-monthly):
Start Date: March 24, 2026
End Date: June 9, 2026All sessions will be recorded and recordings will be available to registered participants within 48-hours of each live session.
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We’ll help all participants join a kinship pod: small groups of 3-8 people. In localities with 3+ participants, local kin groups will be encouraged.
If no local pod exists, we will support participants in joining online kin groups based on geography/time zone or affinity.
if there is anyone in your local community that you want to go through this course with, having pre-existing relationships can really support your journey through this work. Feel free to join with someone you know or with your own group.
Each group will be supported in carrying out a collaborative project aligned with the book’s themes.
Kinship pods will meet during session breakouts and are invited to meet in-person as much as they’d like - we recommend meeting for project planning in the off-weeks when we are not hosting group sessions.
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Yes, all sessions will be hosted on Zoom and will be recorded. All registered participants will have access to a portal that will house audio and video recordings, transcripts and other program information.
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We recommend having your own copy of Fierce Vulnerability. Once you register you will receive a discount code to purchase the book.
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The Gift Economy is a method of managing resources that is modeled after natural ecosystems, and which aims to create sustainability for all people. Gifts, like this program, that are offered in the Gift Economy are not “free.” They are an invitation into a reciprocal relationship with the giver. During the program, we will share more about what this means and offer invitations for you to help make this program sustainable. No amount will be too small or too large.
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This program is a soft re-launch of the Fierce Vulnerability Network. After this program culminates, pods and individuals who would like to continue will have the opportunity to join an additional two-month program to onboard into the Network.
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Email support@kinvene.co for program support. We’ll direct your questions to the best person.