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Join us for an upcoming Prefiguring Futures Lab!

“I think about the lab as a practice space for what is possible.” 

– Lab Participant (June 2024)

We are excited to host the Prefiguring Futures Lab—a rigorous, sacred, and liberatory learning space for people working to advance liberatory transformation to be in practice together.

We hope you can join us from April 14th to 18th in Briarcliff Manor, New York, for the next Prefiguring Futures Lab! The Lab is a rigorous, sacred, creative, and transformational learning space for people working to advance liberation to be in practice together. Learn more and apply today!

The Lab Experience

This five-day in-person experience will bring together a small group of social justice practitioners, facilitators, grassroots leaders, and justice funders who are already experimenting and practicing the five elements of liberatory transformation. It will be an opportunity to dive into the elements, share practices, learn, and unlearn together. 

The Lab’s design is emergent and co-created. Together, we shape a transformative learning and practice space that is grounded in practicing liberation (influenced by the work of Monica Dennis) by connecting, engaging, embracing, and reweaving with:

  • Body: Physical practice like dance, 10-Step, breath, and neurosomatic practices
  • Source: Nature walks, meditation/prayer, and quiet time
  • Emotions: Learning and moving from and with our emotions
  • Story: Story telling orally, in pictures, and in song

Areas of Inquiry & Practice

“Leading from LANDS [liberation and sovereignty], multiple ways of knowing, energetics —fresh and grounded BIPOC theory with an acknowledgment of spirit—led to personal breakthroughs for me.”

– Lab Participant (June 2024)

  • A Theory of Transformation: Connecting to and deepening our pathways and portals to the next world now
  • LANDS (Liberation AND Sovereignty): Unlearning and learning, reclaiming, and reconnecting
  • Complexity: Sense-making and strategy in the emergent and chaotic
  • Shared Leadership and Power: Engaging with power over, with, and within, embracing generative conflict and mutual accountability
  • Multiple Ways of Knowing: Leveraging creativity, intuition, energy, soma, and the natural world as guides
  • Inner Work: Moving with purpose, source, and the sacred
  • Hands-on:  Experimenting our way forward, application, and reflection

Through inquiry, connection, experimentation, and (re)membering, we seed and nourish the relational roots necessary for interdependent, thriving movements. Learn more about the Prefiguring Futures Lab and apply for the April 5-Day Lab below!

The Details

Start & End Time

Start Time: 10:00 am EST on Monday, April 14, 2025
End Time: 11:00 am EST on Friday, April 18, 2025

Location

Westchester County, NY

Accommodations 

Hotel rooms will be provided onsite from Sunday night, April 13th, through Thursday night, April 18th, with checkout on Friday morning. We will cover meals from Monday at lunch through Friday breakfast. 

Travel

Our meeting location (shared via email) is convenient to all the major airports in the area. The closest airport, Westchester County Airport (HPN), is 25 minutes away. LaGuardia (LGA) and JFK (JFK) Airports are 45 minutes away.

Registration Cost

We are asking folks to contribute between $750 and $7,500+. Change Elemental is subsidizing the Lab’s cost significantly (the actual cost is approximately $15,000 per person). Please see below for suggested registration fees. 

Your registration fee covers the program, lodging, on-site group meals, and snacks. It does not include the cost of air and/or ground travel to the location. We will have a pool of funds to offer travel subsidies to those who need it.

Participation is on a sliding scale, and we ask that you contribute based on the suggestions below. Please select an option that best describes your situation and the amount you’ll pay.

Prices RangesOrganizational Budgets
$7,500Free the Money RangePhilanthropy, organizational budgets or assets over $10 million
$5,000Build the Lab RangeOrganizational budgets, or assets of $6-9 million
$3,000Core Range IIOrganizational budgets of $3-5 million
$1,500Core Range IOrganizational budgets of $1-3 million
$750Solidarity rangeIndependent artists, healers, and organizational budgets less than $1 million

If these amounts prohibit you from participating, please let us know so we can discuss an alternative that may meet your needs. 

We want to create a container with up to 20 people who play various roles in our movements. We will not consider the registration contribution you have specified above when reviewing applications. 

Application Form: Prefiguring Futures Lab – April 14-18, 2025

Application Due Date: December 13, 2024

If you have questions about applying, please reach out to us at PrefiguringFutures@ChangeElemental.org

Contact Information

Name(Required)
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Share a bit about yourself and your interest

Demographic Questions

To support our efforts to bring together a diverse group of movement actors and collect information that will help us convey the Lab’s community and impact to potential funders, we ask that you share some demographic data below.
Race/Ethnicity (Check any that apply)(Required)
Age(Required)
Gender (check any that apply)(Required)
Sexual Orientation (check any that apply)(Required)
Are you a primary caregiver, either full-time or part-time? (Check any that apply)(Required)
Movement role (check any that apply)(Required)

Registration Fee

No payment is required to complete the application. If your application is accepted, a deposit will be required to secure your spot. Please select the amount you/your organization can contribute to the cost of the Lab.
Payment Amount(Required)
If you are staff of an organization whose budget is $2 million or above or an individual of considerable means (by your definition), we ask you to consider paying for your food and lodging as an additional flat fee of $1,600.
Yes, I would like information on the pool of funds for travel subsidies.(Required)

Once you hit submit, you will be taken to a confirmation page that lets you know the form went through. We will be in touch after soon to notify you about your application. Thank you!