Compassionate Accountability Workshop

Maximum Participants: 35*

Can someone who has hurt others, even repeatedly, actually change? What comes after the call out? What can someone do if they’ve been called problematic, but aren’t totally sure why? Or, after losing friends, jobs, and networks, how does a person move forward if they want to become someone who won’t cause that type of harm again?

Led by Jae Lin (they/them), Founder and Executive Director of , an accountability support project that guides individuals who have caused harm towards understanding, responsibility, and change.

This workshop aims to share the skills, experiences, and frameworks ReSpec has developed to balance compassion and accountability, foster transformation, and genuinely interrupt cycles of violence.

TICKETS: Pay What You Want (Ticket Value $35). Anyone and any amount is welcome.

*Interested participants are encouraged to register ASAP, as we have a limit of 35 registrants to ensure meaningful participation. 18+ only.

Can't get enough of this topic? Get a ticket for the other event in our series, "An Anatomy of Accountable Communities" with Jae Lin, on October 3 at 7pm. Tickets here!

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This event and series are proudly co-presented by Calgary Outlink and Affirming Connections.

Jae Lin (they/them) is an artist, community organizer, and accountability coach who adores their home and community in Austin, Texas. They are the Executive Director of Unbound Communities, which is home to ReSpec, an accountability support project guiding people who have caused harm towards responsibility, clarity, and change, and Gender Unbound, a community arts org uplifting trans and intersex artists in Central Texas.

They care deeply about transformative justice and abolition, collective liberation, queer art, and building resilient relationships. Previously, Jae served as the Hotline Director at the Games and Online Harassment Hotline for four years at Feminist Frequency, with roots in community health programming for queer people of colour. They love a good turn of phrase, a wide-open sky, and losing themself in a story.

Jae intends to share the skills, experiences, and frameworks ReSpec has developed around balancing compassion and accountability, fostering the possibility of transformation, and genuinely interrupting cycles of violence.

The organizers acknowledge the lands that we inhabit are known as Mohkínstsis, Wîchispa-Oyade, Guts’ists’I, Otôskwanihk (ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ), or Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Turtle Island. We honour and value the culture, spirituality, and traditions of the first peoples of Treaty 7; and acknowledge the ancestral stewards of the land, and our shared stewardship as treaty people: the Niitsitapi (the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai First Nations); the Îyârhe Nakoda of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations; and the Dene of the Tsuut’ina First Nation. Southern Alberta is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Calgary Elbow District.

Host or Publisher Affirming Connections