Friday: Facilitator Training Part 1
Saturday morning: Facilitator Training Part 2 + event prep
Saturday evening: Public potluck preorder activation with trainee-led circles
Sunday: Leadership and facilitator integration gathering

Belonging Across Diasporas

A Southeast Asian & Latinx Community Gathering

Across our communities, many of us are asking questions about belonging, safety, identity, and how to support one another in uncertain times.

This gathering invites Southeast Asian and Latinx community members to come together to explore these questions through Moving Rasa Discovery Cards — a simple but powerful tool for reflection, conversation, and connection.

The cards help people bring real questions into the room and explore them together through story, body awareness, place, and small-group dialogue. They offer a way for communities to gather, listen, and imagine new possibilities together.

Over the course of the weekend, we will practice using the cards in small circles so participants can bring this experience back to their own communities.

What We’ll Explore

• Diaspora identity and cultural memory
• Belonging and community care
• Navigating uncertainty together
• Creative ways to hold meaningful conversations in our communities

No prior experience with movement or facilitation is needed.
All bodies and abilities are welcome.

Weekend Flow

Friday / Saturday
Learning and practicing Discovery Card circles in small groups

Saturday Evening
Community potluck and storytelling gathering

Sunday
Picnic in the park with community-led card circles

Who This Gathering Is For

Southeast Asian and Latinx community members, artists, organizers, educators, healers, and anyone working to support belonging and well-being in these communities.

Location

Bay Area (exact location shared upon registration)

Date

Late June 2026

Learn More / Register

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We’re convening a space for Southeast Asian and Latinx communities to gather around belonging, reflection, and collective care. We’d love to invite members of your community not just to attend, but to help shape what cross-diaspora community practice can look like in this moment.

Part of a growing network of community Discovery Card circles

Layer 1: invitation-based learning circle

Invite:

  • SEA org leaders

  • Latinx organizers / healers / artists

  • a few community builders from each side

Purpose:

  • deepen trust

  • experience the practice

  • prepare some people to help hold space later

Layer 2: broader public gathering

Open to:

  • SEA and Latinx community members

  • family members

  • trusted artists, youth workers, organizers

This could absolutely be the picnic / park component on Sunday.

What is it for community organizations:

  • staff and community well-being

  • identity and belonging work

  • intergenerational connection

  • cross-community solidarity without forced sameness

  • small-group practices they can adapt in their own spaces

FIGURE OUT DISCOVERY CARD CIRCLES:

• surface questions they are carrying
• slow down reaction and polarization
• connect personal experience to collective themes
• listen across difference
• imagine possibilities together

“Practicing curiosity together.”

or

“Listening with the body, not just the mind.”

WAYS TO LISTEN ACROSS DIFFERENCE THROUGH THE BODY:

The gesture should not imitate the person or perform the story.

Instead, it reflects what the story awakens in the listener. “Letting someone’s story move through you.”

Examples:

The listener might:

• place a hand over their heart
• mimic carrying something heavy
• slowly extend their arms outward
• bend toward the ground as if tending a fire

Each gesture is a personal response.

1. Arrive

People gather in a circle and name a question they are carrying.

Examples:

  • What does belonging mean to me right now?

  • What do I need from community?

  • Where do I feel strength in my identity?

  • What fears are we carrying right now?

2. Draw a card

Someone draws a Discovery Card.

The card becomes a shared object of attention.

Instead of debating ideas, people explore:

  • what they notice

  • what the card reminds them of

  • how it relates to their question

3. Explore through body or imagination

Participants might:

  • notice sensations

  • imagine being in the place of the card

  • make a small gesture

  • walk to where they feel drawn in the room

Movement is optional but available.

This helps people move out of purely intellectual conversation.

4. Share reflections

People share:

  • what they noticed

  • what shifted in their question

  • what feels important now

This becomes the community dialogue portion.

5. Integration

The group asks:

  • What does this mean for us?

  • What support do we need from each other?

  • What action or care might follow from this?

Now reflection becomes community awareness.