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Saturday 21st November 2026- Edinburgh
This workshop run by Glasgow Prisoner Solidary will explore why we must reject the framing of racist incidents as ‘hate crime’, and ways we can intervene when we witness such harm in public.
Challenging automatic responses such as calling the police or doing nothing, this is a space to explore the multitude of alternative responses available to us.
Together we’ll share skills and build autonomous practices to respond to racist incidents, reduce our reliance on the state and keep each other safe!
Asks for Participants:
The topics covered in this workshop can be sensitive. Although we welcome relevant input based on experience, this is a learning space, not a venting space. We cannot guarantee that emotionally charged reflections will be given the space they deserve.
We recommend making a plan in advance for after the workshop, for example, calling or meeting a friend who can talk with you about what comes up. Please don’t repeat harmful language in the space. Regardless of what happens, we encourage everyone to go easy on themselves and resist shame.
Background:
This workshop emerged from work by Remember Resist, a project by Daikon Zine, to expand abolitionist thinking and practice within East and Southeast Asian diaspora organising in the UK. In 2020, in response to the increase in racism against those racialised as Chinese, lots of community groups turned towards the police seeking protection. Knowing that migrant, Black and brown people would only be put further in harm’s way by the involvement of the police, Remember Resist ran workshops on hate crime and abolitionist approaches to explore community responses to racist attacks.
A need for mass bystander intervention training emerged from this. It was further developed by workshops hosted by Cradle Community, a transformative justice collective, and Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity in 2023. Glasgow Prisoner Solidarity (GPS) is a small group of people working together to support incarcerated people and spread awareness about prison expansion and abolitionist ideas. We run a pen pal programme and distribute a newsletter, The Interloper. GPS currently meets on the 2nd Thurs of the month 6-7.30pm at Pluto Q for an open pen pal meeting. For more information, email bystanderinterventionscotland@proton.me or follow instagram.com/glasgowprisonersolidarity
We look forward to meeting you
We work with diverse groups in lots of different spaces, meaning that the format and access provisions of our events will vary. We are currently working on a shareable version of our baseline access commitments, which are met at every event we host. We also set aside a budget that allows us to meet specific access costs for participants, including travel and childcare.
For more information about the access provisions for a specific training or event, please visit the information page for that event.
Tripod’s trainings are inspired by direct education methodologies and based in our intersectional values. We bring a trauma-informed approach to conflict. Our work focuses on creating space for personal, collective and systemic transformation. We are committed to experiential education, which means that we’ll be learning by doing and that we’ll centre the experiences and knowledge already in the room. You’ll have plenty of opportunities for practice and feedback, and to address specific questions and challenges you’re bringing.
Tripod builds the power of social movements tackling the root causes of injustice in Scotland and beyond. As a collective of facilitators and educators, we connect people and develop skills to embody the liberated futures we’re fighting for. We seed active solidarity and strengthen strategic collaboration within and across movements. We offer training, meeting facilitation and conflict mediation to support groups to work in better alignment with their visions and values. We are a worker-led, not-for-profit coop, and have been embedded in movements since 2008.
For more info about our approaches and other work, have a look around our website. Our 2025-2030 strategy focuses on building intersectional movements, and increasing the capacity to better navigate conflict within and across groups.
Do your communities keep playing out the same destructive patterns in conflict? Do you want to find ways to navigate conflicts complicated by friendships, romantic relationships and years of shared history?
In this three-day residential training, we’ll explore approaches to conflict informed by the values of transformative justice, collective care and anti-oppression, with a focus on how to use these skills in complex, messy communities.
This training is geared towards folk who often find themselves navigating conflicts in densely entangled communities. By ‘entangled’, we mean communities in which work, housing, organising, friendship, dating and other dynamics overlap across fluid and evolving groups of people.
Do your communities keep playing out the same destructive patterns in conflict? Do you want to find ways to navigate conflicts complicated by friendships, romantic relationships and years of shared history?
In this three-day residential training, we’ll explore approaches to conflict informed by the values of transformative justice, collective care and anti-oppression, with a focus on how to use these skills in complex, messy communities.
This training is geared towards folk who often find themselves navigating conflicts in densely entangled communities. By ‘entangled’, we mean communities in which work, housing, organising, friendship, dating and other dynamics overlap across fluid and evolving groups of people.
We work with diverse groups in lots of different spaces, meaning that the format and accessibility of our events will vary. We are currently working on a shareable version of our baseline access commitments, which are met at every event we host. We also set aside a budget that allows us to meet specific access costs for participants, including travel and childcare.
For more information about the access provisions for a specific training or event, please visit the information page for that event.
Tripod’s trainings are inspired by direct education methodologies and based in our intersectional values. We bring a trauma-informed approach to conflict. Our work focuses on creating space for personal, collective and systemic transformation. We are committed to experiential education, which means that we’ll be learning by doing and that we’ll centre the experiences and knowledge already in the room. You’ll have plenty of opportunities for practice and feedback, and to address specific questions and challenges you’re bringing.
Tripod builds the power of social movements tackling the root causes of injustice in Scotland and beyond. As a collective of facilitators and educators, we connect people and develop skills to embody the liberated futures we’re fighting for. We seed active solidarity and strengthen strategic collaboration within and across movements. We offer training, meeting facilitation and conflict mediation to support groups to work in better alignment with their visions and values. We are a worker-led, not-for-profit coop, and have been embedded in movements since 2008.
For more info about our approaches and other work, have a look around our website. Our 2025-2030 strategy focuses on building intersectional movements, and increasing the capacity to better navigate conflict within and across groups.