Nonviolent Direct Action: A Four-Hour Training

With Nichola Torbett, Bill Wylie-Kellermann and Lydia Wylie-Kellerman

November 9, 2025

Date and Time Details: Sunday, November 9; 1-5pm

Location: available upon registration

Contact: Nichola
nicholat@kirkridge.org

  • $55.00 – Sponsorship rate
  • $40.00 – Base rate
  • $25.00 – Subsidized rate

Inspired by the long legacy of nonviolent direct action in movement history, and especially movements led by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, this training will begin to prepare participants to use nonviolent, disruptive tactics as part of campaigns for justice. The workshop will give you tools so that your group can find tactics that match antiracist, liberatory values and risk-level of the folks you are organizing with as well as the practices to implement those tactics. We will also build relationships toward the formation of affinity groups that can take action together.

Registration is offered on a sliding scale, and scholarships are available. Please get in touch if the low end of the scale is out of reach, and likewise, if you can, please register at a higher rate and/or donate to our Equity fund to ensure that everyone has access.

We will gather in person at the beautiful Kirkridge Retreat & Study Center. Exact location will be available following registration.

 

About the Leaders

Nichola Torbett

Nichola Torbett (they/she) is a white, queer, raised-working-class organizer, survivor, recovering addict, direct action trainer, teacher, abolitionist, and preacher in the radical Christian tradition. Politicized predominantly by Black- and Brown-led movement struggles of Oakland, California, they are a student of transformative justice, disability justice, and ancestral lineage healing (specializing in working with Euro-descended folks with […]

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Bill Wylie-Kellermann

Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a nonviolent community activist, writer, and United Methodist pastor living in Wawiatanong/Detroit. He is also is part of the Community at Kirkridge. Bill was a friend of William Stringfellow’s and has done several books on him, including A Keeper of the Word: Selected Writings of William Stringfellow (Eerdmans, 1994), William Stringfellow: Essential […]

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Lydia Wylie-Kellerman

Lydia Wylie-Kellermann is a writer, editor, activist, and mother. She is the director of Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center and editor of Geez magazine, which explores the intersection of activism, art, and spirit. She is the editor of The Sandbox Revolution: Raising Kids for a Just World. She lives with her partner and two boys at Kirkridge on Lenape land […]

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