Decide Together: Online Sessions 2025
What is your small step toward more collaborative decisions?
Update – April 2025
We have decided to postpone our online sessions until after the Decide Together in-person event, May 14-16 in the Netherlands.
You are warmly invited to register for the in-person event or learn more about participation options. You can also support us financially, or just spread the word (e.g., by sharing FB event)!
We invite you to join our google group to receive updates and info about future offerings.
Original Invitation for Online Sessions
Join us as we gather for an online journey to explore our blocks, barriers, strengths and successes in collaborative decision making and build both community and skills for engaging in this vital work.
đź“… When?
| Wed 9-11 AM EDT 3-5 PM CEST | Mon 12-2 PM EDT 6-8 PM CEST | |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1 | April 30th | May 5th |
| Session 2 | June 4th | May 19th |
🌍 Where: Online (details provided upon registration)
As part of our Decide Together event we are hosting 2 online sessions, each designed to help you take small steps toward more collaborative decision-making. Each session is offered twice to accommodate different time zones. Each session will begin with a short introduction to what we mean by collaborative decision-making and conclude with a reflection on your next small step—so you’ll leave with something concrete to experiment with.
The idea for the Decide Together event began with a clear intention: to offer an in-person experience. As we moved forward, we realized that many people wouldn’t be able to attend in person. In response, we decided to create an online journey as well, so more people could be part of the experience. If you’re able, we warmly encourage you to join us in person. Live collaboration offers a rich, energizing experience that simply unfolds in different ways than what’s possible online.
Session 1: What’s blocking you from making collaborative decisions?
Reflect on your doubts and concerns – about yourself, others, your organization, your community, or the world as a whole—in small group discussions. Bringing these barriers into the light is the first step toward moving through them.
Session 2: What are your strengths in leading collaborative decisions?
Explore the unique skills, qualities, and capacities you bring to the table when supporting collaborative decisions and ground yourself in your resources so that you can lean on them more in daily work and challenging moments.
How much does it cost?
The organizing team offers the online session as a gift, meaning no one is required to pay to participate. We ask people to gift us money to help cover our costs and some of our living expenses. We are taking on more risk by choosing not to charge people for participating in our events because we really want to move away from capitalism. This is a small step towards our dream of a world where resources flow freely to where they are needed, also called the gift economy.
We invite you to choose an amount to gift us that considers both your needs and ours, including any funding you can use from an organization or program. You can gift us money even if you don’t participate, and you are welcome to participate even if you are not able to gift us any money.
The easiest way to send us money is through our fundraiser on Whydonate.
If you need more guidance in choosing an amount, information about the gift economy or more options to send us financial gifts, please visit our gifting page.
Who is holding the sessions?
Magda BaraĹ„ska – I feel a deep calling to contribute to making decisions that work for everyone, because I see how much more alive and effective groups become when everyone’s needs matter. I believe humans intrinsically enjoy finding solutions that care for everyone’s needs and what gets in the way are unsupportive beliefs and lack of skills. I’m passionate about inspiring and supporting transformation of such beliefs and teaching the skills that make interdependent collaboration possible. I enjoy offering softness and acceptance to free up the energy that gets stuck in self-judgments and self-doubts. When facilitating I bring faith that integration is possible and trust in the wisdom and creativity of a group. It gives me great joy to contribute to co-creation through deep listening to everything that is shared and through the integration of dissent and concerns. I aim for each encounter and decision in my life to become an example of the change I want to see in the world. My ongoing sources of learning include collaborating in diverse projects, parenting and inner transformation.
Rinah Rachel Galper – a seasoned coach and healer, consultant, connector, licensed educator, ordained clergy, facilitator, and a change and peace maker with over three decades experience working with diverse youth and adults across educational, community, and organizational settings. She is a trained Reiki master in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition, end of life doula, ritualist, writer, facilitator and nature guide. Rinah has a Masters in Education, an Associate degree in Expressive Arts, and two ordinations as a Kohenet and a Maggid. Joyoushout is an evolution of Rinah’s intersectional work for social justice, teaching, healing, creative, and spiritual practice and is informed by her personal journey as an elder, queer, white identified Jew, liberation ally, neurodivergent learner and unlearner, truth-teller, storyteller, writer, and woman in recovery. ​Rinah owes a debt of deep gratitude to her mother, Miriam Thompson (of blessed memory), a trailblazer in educational reform, labor organizing, civil and human rights, and worker education for over 50 years, and countless mentors and co-conspirators past and present.
Contact us by email at cdme-support@googlegroups.com.