Nonviolent Direct Action: A Four-Hour Training
With Nichola Torbett and Bill Wylie-Kellermann
November 9, 2025
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 is a white, queer, raised-working-class spiritual seeker, recovering addict, gospel preacher, racial justice podcaster, and nonviolent direct action trainer. She grew up in a sundown town in Ohio and had no consciousness of racism until she was nearly 25. She is grateful to the powerful BIPOC-led movements of Oakland and San Francisco, California, […]
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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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