A Prefiguring Future Lab: April 14-18, 2025
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 | Ranges | Organizational Budgets |
| $7,500 | Free the Money Range | Philanthropy, organizational budgets or assets over $10 million |
| $5,000 | Build the Lab Range | Organizational budgets, or assets of $6-9 million |
| $3,000 | Core Range II | Organizational budgets of $3-5 million |
| $1,500 | Core Range I | Organizational budgets of $1-3 million |
| $750 | Solidarity range | Independent 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.