Choosing Love

A weekly co-learning place for exploring love as an always-available and active choice that restores human solidarity and antidotes cancel culture, in service to the relational resiliency and robustness of our communities on the Olympic Peninsula

Ongoing, Thursdays from 5:30pm-7:30pm in Port Townsend, starting December 3rd, 2026

‍(location shared upon registering)

  • Would you like to grow your capacity to keep your heart open to people, even when they piss you off or you disagree with them about important things?

  • Would you like to know how to be useful in a conflict field (instead of making it worse)?

  • Would you like to help liberate yourself and others from the suffering that often accompanies conflict and separation?

  • Would you like to contribute to a community culture that lovingly invites people back into connection and integrity, instead of cancelling them, even in instances of significant harm?

Description:

This is a consciousness-shifting, skill building and live coaching space where we explore how to apply the principles of nonviolence in how we think, how we speak, and in how we act in relationship (to ourselves, others and life), with a specific focus on community, rather than at the individual level.

It’s said that when under stress, we fall to the level of our habits, rather than our values. This class aims to build the necessary skills to face both local and global challenges with love for ourselves, others and the larger human community, no matter what the circumstances, and to align our thoughts, words and actions with nonviolent consciousness - without exception.

The material we’ll be working with will be both pre-conceived topics as well as emergent topics that participants bring forward from their own lives. There is no curriculum, so you can keep coming back as long as you wish.

In addition to live, emergent coaching and accompaniment, we’ll explore…

  • The social cosmology of nonviolence - viewing human beings as an innately generous, loving and collaborative species, what gets in the way of these innate qualities, and how we can re-align with trust in each other and life

  • How nonviolence can be used as a powerful and highly effective tool for individual and collective liberation

  • How viewing human behavior through a systemic lens can support us in our journey towards radical non-judgment of ourselves and others

  • The practical and transformative power of stepping outside of the right/wrong paradigm when engaging with impact and harm

  • How self-compassion can reduce reactivity and defensiveness and increase our capacity for self-responsibility

  • How our narratives about what others do and why they do it creates internal distortion and unnecessary suffering

  • How to increase your own sense of wellbeing and rootedness through liberation work, and share it with others in these unprecedented, challenging times

Participation Process:

1. Fill out this form

After filling out the form I’ll email you with class details.

This class is ongoing, on Thursday evenings.

This class is offered through gift economy. I offer it freely, as a gift from my heart to my community. That is different from it being “free”. I am a low income person with two children to care for. While there is no contribution required for anyone to attend, I ask that every person who joins consider whether or not it’s possible to offer a gift towards my financial sustainability so that I can continue to do my work. I will invite participants to make a contribution at the end of each class. Most important, if your heart longs to join, please come even if you cannot offer a contribution of money.

Past workshops

Community Supported conflict

An introductory workshop on peer-to-peer conflict support

Sunday, May 31st, 2026

10am-4pm in Port Townsend, Wa

Would you like to know how to be useful within a conflict field?

Would you like to help liberate people you care about from the suffering that occurs when conflict arises?

Would you like to support yourself and others in shifting behaviors that keep resulting in relational ruptures, and do it in a radically non-judgmental way?

Would you like to contribute to a community culture that lovingly invites people back into connection and integrity with themselves and others, instead of cancelling them?

Would you like to support people in increasing trust in themselves and life, regardless of what other people do, or how a conflict works out?

description:

Conflicts impact more people than just those directly involved. We all know this. How many of us have felt the pain and discomfort of being stuck in the middle of a rupture within our family, workplace or friend groups? In this 6-hour introduction to Community Supported Conflict, you’ll learn concepts and tools that can help transform negative impacts into an opportunity for liberation, learning and deeper connection and trust. While the workshop focuses on supporting others with impacts, all the tools that will be shared can be applied to your own life and conflicts as well.

In this workshop we’ll explore…

  • Releasing the goal of “neutrality” and embracing radical care for everyone involved in a conflict field.

  • The vital difference between offering someone empathy and reinforcing painful, judgmental and often inaccurate narratives about what others did.

  • Supporting people in connecting to their own feelings and needs so they can accompany themselves with compassion, agency and authenticity.

  • Supporting people in releasing the other person as the sole strategy for meeting their needs.

  • Helping people shift from making assumptions about someone else’s intentions, to finding relaxed curiosity and openness to the other person’s experience.

  • Holding and sharing a systemic lens so that people can see how power and privilege differences may be contributing to rupture.

Supporting my sustainability

I long to live in a world where all humans can participate in enriching offerings and spaces, regardless of their ability to offer money. And because we all live within the constraints of capitalism, I have material needs that can’t be met without money. I am committed to making this class available to anyone who feels committed to doing this sacred work of tending conflict and supporting others’ liberation within community. If the requested amount below is possible for you, even if it requires you to make some strategic financial decisions to make it a manageable stretch, please offer the full amount, so that my own material needs can be met. If the suggested amount would create actual financial hardship for you, please email me at janne@themotherloom.com so we can find a solution that works for both of us.

Registration process:

1. Fill out this form

2. Send a monetary contribution

The requested contribution for this workshop is $150. If you are able and willing to offer more, please do so! This makes the stretch of offering space to those with less access to resources more manageable for me. Please send your contribution via any of the following:

Venmo: @Janne-Campbell

Paypal: @JanneCampbell

Zell: janne@travelingspectacular.com

Once you have registered and sent your contribution, you’ll be added to the class list and receive class details. **If you want to offer less than the requested amount of $150, please email me so we can be in dialogue about that prior to making a contribution of a different amount**