Communiversity Course Registration

Interrupting Criminalization is offering another “Communiversity” series in Brooklyn starting in September and October 2026!

Last year, we partnered with Women Building Up to organize an anti-criminalization Communiversity series. In 2026, Women Building Up will once again host a Communiversity series organized by IC. This time, the focus is Healing Justice (HJ).

As defined by the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, HJ “is a political strategy…to intervene and respond to generational trauma and systemic oppression, and build community/survivor led responses rooted in southern traditions of resiliency to sustain our emotional/physical/spiritual/psychic and environmental well being.”

Come learn how to have a hard conversation while supporting yourself with plants. This workshop will provide participants tools to prepare for and initiate hard conversations, give and receive feedback and regulate your nervous system using herbs. Participants will also learn about plants and processes that certain Indigenous communities utilize to resolve conflict. 

In this workshop, participants will:

Learn how to give and receive feedback
Learn about herbs that can support them throughout this process
Experience the herbs
Practice receiving and giving feedback 
Create and take home their own customized tea blend to support them in future hard conversations
Receive a resource list to continue their learning 

Facilitator Bio:

Diana Arellano-Gonzalez (she/ella) is a clinical herbalist with over 15 years of experience studying and practicing herbalism. For the last 8 years, Diana has been learning about and practicing conflict resolution, restorative justice, circle keeping and transformative justice. She believes deeply in the transformative power that hard conversations can have in our relationships with others, and with ourselves. She’s known for lovingly nudging her friends and comrades to have those convos, because our communities deserve that intention and care.