Introduction

The Co-Conspirator Workgroup is a Supporting Healthy Families (SHF)–aligned leadership and transformation workgroup designed to strengthen individual and organizational capacity for sustained, accountable justice work.

Rooted in lived experience, systems analysis, and trauma-informed facilitation, this workgroup supports participants to examine how power, race, and oppression operate across family systems, institutions, policies, and internal belief structures. This is not abstract theory or one-time training. It is applied, embodied learning that creates measurable change in how participants think, regulate emotions, relate to others, navigate systems, and take responsibility within spaces of influence.

SHF centers the understanding that meaningful systems change requires internal change. Participants engage in reflective learning, facilitated dialogue, and practical skill-building that disrupts performative allyship and replaces it with clarity, accountability, and aligned action. The workgroup equips participants to remain present in discomfort, respond rather than react, and interrupt harm without replicating it.

Once participants understand the architecture of white supremacist racism—and how it reproduces itself through everyday decisions, policies, and cultural norms—neutrality is no longer an option. This workgroup supports the shift from awareness to responsibility, and from intention to sustained practice.

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Who This Is For

For Individuals

This workgroup is for people ready to do the internal work required for external impact. It is designed for educators, organizational leaders, faith leaders, advocates, and community members who are committed to justice and willing to examine how their beliefs, behaviors, and roles shape outcomes within systems.

Through the SHF framework, participants build self-awareness, emotional regulation, and systems literacy—developing the capacity to interrupt harm, repair relationships, and take responsibility without defensiveness or disengagement. This space is for those done with surface-level learning and ready to build the skills necessary for long-term, values-aligned action.

For Organizations

Urban Triage partners with schools, businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies to deliver the Co-Conspirator Workgroup within teams and institutions. Using the SHF curriculum model, organizations are guided to examine internal culture, decision-making structures, and power dynamics that sustain inequity.

This workgroup supports organizations to move from statements and training toward practice and accountability. Staff and leadership develop shared language, improved communication, and clearer responsibility pathways—strengthening trust, alignment, and collective capacity for change. Together, we build environments that do not simply name equity but operationalize it.

Weekly Workgroup Sessions
A structured, multi-session curriculum grounded in the Supporting Healthy Families (SHF) framework. Sessions focus on systems literacy, leadership development, emotional regulation, and relational accountability—supporting participants to examine how power, race, and oppression operate across policies, institutions, relationships, and internal belief systems.

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Applied Learning & Skill-Building
Experiential activities that build practical skills in communication, boundary-setting, accountability, and interruption of harm. Participants practice responding rather than reacting, engaging in difficult conversations, and applying tools for everyday interactions at work, at home, and in community spaces.

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Healing-Centered Reflection
Facilitated dialogue that addresses defensiveness, guilt, fragility, avoidance, and judgment as learned survival responses within oppressive systems. Through SHF’s trauma-informed approach, participants develop the capacity to hold discomfort, remain present in tension, and participate in repair without disengagement or harm replication.

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Culturally Rooted Community & Support
Participants learn and practice shared tools, distinctions, and language that reshape how they communicate, listen, and relate. This includes:

• New language and communication frameworks that support clarity, accountability, and alignment
• Tools for deep listening and hearing beyond defensiveness or reactivity
• Practices for holding personal discomfort while staying engaged and grounded
• Skills to hold space for others without judgment, rescue, or avoidance
• Shifting from the need to be right toward responsibility and curiosity
• Moving out of avoidance, blame, or performative behavior and into accountable action
• A new paradigm for understanding power, harm, and repair rooted in openness and shared responsibility

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Ongoing Growth & Application
Aligned with SHF values, participants leave with practical tools, shared language, and embodied practices that extend beyond the workgroup—supporting sustained leadership, relational integrity, and systems-level change in everyday life.