A World Beyond Borders
A Global Gathering for Learning, Organizing, and Collective Care
A weekend-long virtual gathering that connects people doing the work, people supporting the work, and people trying to figure out where they fit, across movements and geographies.
April 2026
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We’re inviting activists, organizers, artists, educators, and community members from all over the world to propose sessions for A World Beyond Borders — a weekend dedicated to learning, connection, action, and collective care.This is not a conference built around polished lectures or influencer talks. It’s a shared space for practical tools, lived experience, honest dialogue, and creative resistance across movements, borders, and generations.You don’t need a big platform or institutional backing. If you have something to share, explore, question, or build together, we want to hear from you.
Host/Join a Featured Session
We’re actively looking for facilitators and panelists for a small set of featured session ideas we’re hoping to include.These are starting points, not fixed.
You can apply to:
lead a session
co-host with others
join as a panelist or contributor
Propose Your Own Session
We also welcome you to submit your own session idea under any of the conference themes.We’re especially excited about sessions that:
turn awareness into action
share lived experience or lessons from the ground
make organizing more accessible and sustainable
explore how movements connect across borders and struggles
Featured Sessions
All causes and movements are welcome.The featured session list is meant to inspire, not limit.If one of these topics resonates, you’re welcome to shape it with us.If you don’t see yourself reflected there, we still want to hear your ideas.
Defending the Commons: Power, Extraction & Shared Struggles
A facilitated conversation about shared resources, collective survival, and the forces that threaten them.From Awareness to Organizing
How people move from learning and outrage to sustained, real-world action. This session centers practical pathways into organizing without shame, perfection, or burnout.Movement Strategy in a Fragmented World
How movements organize when people are scattered across geographies, identities, and levels of risk. A space to talk honestly about coordination, tension, and collaboration across difference.Capitalism, Crisis & Collective Response
An exploration of how economic systems show up across struggles — from climate to displacement to labor — and how communities respond collectively rather than individually.
Building Power Beyond Institutions
What power looks like outside traditional institutions and gatekeepers. Stories and strategies from grassroots organizing, mutual aid, digital spaces, and informal networks.
This is only a sampling of sessions we want to see. Click here for more details and the complete list of topics.
Session Themes
Pathways Into Action
Sessions focused on turning awareness into concrete, everyday action. This includes organizing tools, accessible entry points into activism, and ways people move from learning to doing — online or offline.
Frontlines & Lived Experience
Sessions led by people directly impacted. This theme centers firsthand experiences, lessons from the ground, and perspectives often spoken about but not heard from.
Movement Dialogues
Sessions designed as open conversations or debates. This space holds respectful disagreement, unresolved questions, and difficult conversations movements need to have — approached with care and curiosity.
Creative Resistance & Storytelling
Sessions using art, culture, and narrative as tools for change. This includes storytelling, media, music, visual art, performance, satire, and creative formats that build solidarity and shift narratives.
Care, Sustainability & Collective Wellbeing
Sessions about staying human in long struggles. This includes burnout, grief, joy, rest, mutual care, accessibility, and practices that help people remain engaged without burning out.
Intergenerational & Cross-Movement Learning
Sessions focused on learning across age, experience, and movement lines. This includes wisdom-sharing between generations, lessons from past movements, and honest exchanges across different organizing contexts.
Intersectionality & Shared Struggles
Sessions exploring how different movements and identities intersect. This includes disability justice, racial justice, gender and sexuality, migration, class, climate, and how these realities connect and inform each other.
Accessibility & Disability Justice
Sessions centered on disability justice and accessibility in organizing and events. This includes designing inclusive spaces, removing barriers to participation, and building movements where disabled people are centered — not accommodated as an afterthought.
Indigenous-Led & Indigenous-Ally Organizing
Sessions centering Indigenous leadership, land-based struggles, sovereignty, and decolonization. Sessions by non-Indigenous participants should focus on allyship, accountability, and learning — not speaking over Indigenous voices.
Digital Organizing & Narrative Power
Sessions exploring activism in online and digital spaces. This includes ethical social media use, digital safety, platform realities, storytelling in the attention economy, and moving people from awareness to action without turning activism into branding.
Behind-the-Scenes Organizing
Sessions about how movements actually function. This includes logistics, coordination, strategy, coalition-building, digital organizing, and the work that sustains movements beyond moments of visibility.
Session Format
When submitting, please tell us what kind of session you’re proposing.
Workshop (interactive or skill-based)
Panel or conversation
Facilitated dialogue or circle
Skill share or teach-in
Creative, cultural, or performance-based session
Not sure yet
We welcome sessions from all causes and movements, local and global.What matters most is care, intention, and a commitment to turning awareness into action.Some moments will be for learning.
Some for connection.
Some for joy, culture, and being human together.
To propose a session, we’ll ask for:
Session title
Short description
Session format
Theme selection
Whether you’d like to host solo or with others
Your idea does not need to be fully-formed, we’re shaping this gathering together.
Accessibility & Care
Accessibility is not an add-on, it’s part of how we organize.We’re committed to making this gathering as accessible as possible.When submitting a session, please share:
Any accessibility considerations for your session
What participants should know to engage fully
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2026
Please submit your application for a session by the end of day Feb 28, 2026 to be considered.
Join a Featured Session
Propose a Session
Call for Volunteers
This gathering is community-powered. We’re looking for volunteers who want to help with:
session support and moderation
accessibility support (captions, notes, care roles)
tech help during sessions
welcoming participants and helping people navigate the space
behind-the-scenes coordination before and during the gathering
You don’t need prior experience just care, reliability, and a willingness to show up.
Support the Gathering
Donations & In-Kind Contributions
We’re also welcoming support from individuals, collectives, and values-aligned partners who want to help make this gathering accessible and joyful.Ways to contribute include:
donating funds to support accessibility, tech, or honorariums
contributing items or services for our silent auction
offering in-kind resources (software, printing, design, captions, etc.)
We’re prioritizing support that aligns with our values and directly benefits participants. We’re especially interested in contributions that support accessibility, care, and participation for people who are often excluded from organizing spaces.