June 27-28, 2026
Join Indivisible for a two-day training event focused on strategies of noncooperation, building movement resilience and sustainability, and preparing to be peer educators in our own groups and networks. Whether you’re an experienced organizer or just getting started, you’ll gain practical skills and connect with a passionate community.
Empower Your Activism in Portland
The sessions are organized into four tracks: Community Resilience as Resistance, Organizing for Strategic Action, Sustainable Safety Practice and a Bonus Track. If you attend Resistance Bootcamp as a part of a larger contingent from an Indivisible group or other organization, planners recommend dispersing different members across all four tracks, if possible.
Note that some classes may require that participants have already attended other trainings in that track, but sessions are otherwise scheduled to allow you to move between tracks if you wish.
Track 1, Community Resilience as Resistance, will feature Saturday workshops on launching a mutual aid project and managing activist burnout through self-care and other strategies. Sunday opens with a two-part session on first aid for protest medics in the main track and a two part session on conflict resolution in the bonus track.
Track 2, Organizing for Strategic Action, will open with a workshop to help you start and develop your affinity groups, and rounds out day one with another in leadership and group development, both addressing essential work for ensuring the resilience and sustainability of the movement. Day two will continue that work with sessions on conflict resolution and strategic action planning, concluding with a strategic action troubleshooting clinic.
Track 3, Sustainable Safety Practice, will begin with a workshop on starting your group’s safety team in the main track and with a class on digital security for activists in the bonus track. Next comes a “train the trainers” session to prepare participants to train marshals for nonviolent direct actions. Sunday’s sessions will include an advanced deescalation training and a two-session workshop on nonviolent civil disobedience and other high-risk nonviolent direct actions.
Resistance Bootcamp 2.0
Preliminary Schedule & Course Descriptions
(Subject to change)
SATURDAY • JUNE 27, 2026
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Welcome, Announcements, and Special Remarks Commemorating the Stonewall Rebellion
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM Plenary Session: Building a Sustainable and Resilient Movement
The opening plenary training will address key challenges confronting organizers within their groups and networks: conflict, trust, and burnout. This training will introduce practical ways to overcome these challenges, with a focus on the history and value of affinity groups in organizing resistance, the advisability of establishing frameworks for conflict resolution before they are needed, and intentionally expanding leadership circles to nurture additional high-performance activists. Trainers encourage all participants to attend this session, as the material included is foundational to the other sessions. Recommended prerequisite: Resistance 101 (For those who did not attend the first Resistance Bootcamp in October 2025, or those who may be newer to activism, Resistance 101 will be available via Zoom sessions ahead of Bootcamp 2.0–See Event Overview & Key Details at the end of this page for more information and to sign up for the training).
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch
Please note that all participants are responsible for their own lunch. Multiple food options are conveniently located near the venue. Only food purchased from on-site vendors is allowed inside the venue. Except for small pocket snacks, participants are not permitted to bring outside food into the venue. Brown baggers will be asked to eat outside.
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Breakout Session A
How to Start a Mutual Aid Project (Community Resilience as Resistance)
This workshop presents a six-step framework and other practical advice to help your nonviolent direct action group conceive and create a mutual aid project.
How to Start a Safety Team (Organizing for Strategic Action)
This workshop presents a six-step framework and other practical advice to help participants form and develop effective affinity groups.
How to Start a Safety Team (Sustainable Safety Practice)
This workshop presents a six-step framework and other practical advice to help your nonviolent direct action group start and build a team of volunteers dedicated to keeping all participants safe. Recommended prerequisite: NVDA Marshals Training.
Digital Security for Activists (Bonus)
This session introduces participants to the importance of digital security to the safety and effectiveness of nonviolent resistance groups, and offers practical, easily understood solutions for groups and individuals.
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Break
Mingle, network, and buy merch!
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Breakout Session B
Self-care and Managing Burnout (Community Resilience as Resistance)
This session will introduce healthy approaches to activist self-care and highlight proven strategies to avoid burnout.
Leadership and Group Development (Organizing for Strategic Action)
This training introduces practical systems such as leadership pipelines, team-based structures, and mentorship models to grow leadership capacity, prevent burnout, and strengthen resilience. Participants leave with tools to identify, develop, and support new leaders while distributing responsibility across a broader, more sustainable leadership circle.
Train the Trainers: NVDA Marshal Manual (Sustainable Safety Practice)
This workshop will help prepare participants to use the Nonviolent Direct Action Marshals Manual as a foundation to offer peer-to-peer training for safety volunteers within their own groups. Recommended prerequisite: NVDA Marshals Training.
Moving From Protest to Strategic Non-cooperation (Bonus)
Go beyond one-off protests with campaigns that win. This training introduces power analysis, pillars of support, and trategies of non-cooperation, from boycotts to strikes. Participants will learn how to design tactics with demands, and build disciplined sustained pressure to influence change.
SUNDAY • JUNE 28, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 PM Breakout Session C
First Aid for NVDA, Part 1 (Community Resilience as Resistance)
This introductory level first aid course will help participants build confidence in basic first aid skills relevant to NVDA contexts, with an emphasis on safety, consent, and role clarity. Part 1 emphasizes the importance of situational awareness and introduces simple effective interventions for common protest, injuries, as well as when and how to escalate to professional medical care.
Coalition Building (Organizing for Strategic Action)
This panel explores how organizers form, sustain, and evolve coalitions across differences in strategy, identity, and capacity. Local organizers will share lessons learned, common pitfalls, and practical approaches to building durable partnerships that strengthen movements without sacrificing clarity, accountability, or effectiveness..
Advanced Deescalation and the Gray Rock Method (Sustainable Safety Practice)
This workshop advances participants’ deescalation skills through role play and other dynamic learning exercises with an emphasis on practicing the Gray Rock Method in which neutrality is employed to defuse escalated situations. Recommended prerequisite: NVDA Marshals Training.
Organizing Together Through Conflict and Discomfort, Part 1 (Bonus)
This session introduces tools and frameworks for navigating conflict and surviving discomfort when organizing, both within one’s own group or when collaborating with other groups. Workshop will offer participants opportunities to discuss experiences, engage in self-reflection, and practice critical skills for working through misunderstandings and disagreements.
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Breakout Session D
First Aid for NVDA, Part 1 (Community Resilience as Resistance)
This session provides a comprehensive review of the contents of the typical protest medic’s kit followed by hands-on role play exercises during which participants can practice the interventions introduced in part 1. Recommended prerequisite: First Aid for NVDA, Part 1
Strategic Action Planning (Organizing for Sustainability)
Learn how to design strategic, durable campaigns that integrate nonviolent direct action into a broader theory of change. This course equips organizers to set goals, choose tactics, sequence actions, and build sustained pressure through coordinated campaigns capable of wining meaningful change.
Preparing for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience and High Risk Nonviolent Direct Action, Part 1 (Sustainable Safety Practice)
This workshop introduces the principles and purposes of nonviolent civil disobedience and helps attendees prepare for high risk nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience scenarios in which arrest is either planned or possible. Session entails role play exercises designed to help individuals assess their tolerance for NVDA-related risks, and provide opportunities for affinity groups to practice collective decision-making under pressure. Recommended prerequisite: NVDA Marshals Training
Organizing Together Through Conflict and Discomfort, Part 2 (Bonus)
This session builds on part 1 to help participants better navigate conflict and survive discomfort when organizing, both within their own groups and when collaborating with other groups. Workshop will offer participants opportunities to discuss experiences, engage in self-reflection, and practice critical skills for working through misunderstandings and disagreements. Prerequisite: Organizing Together through Conflict and Discomfort, Part 1
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch
Please note that all participants are responsible for their own lunch. Multiple food options are conveniently located near the venue. Only food purchased from on-site vendors is allowed inside the venue. Except for small pocket snacks, participants are not permitted to bring outside food into the venue. Brown baggers will be asked to eat outside.
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM Breakout Session E
Decolonization Workshop (previousl listed as Anti-racism Workshop) (Community Resilience as Resistance)
This workshop explores the value of anti-racism in building effective coalitions and strengthening solidarity across the movement, guiding participants through effective practices for deconstructing privilege, preventing microagression, and amplifying the voices of equity priority communities in activists spaces.
Strategic Action Planning: Troubleshooting Clinic (Organizing for Strategic Action)
Build on your campaign strategy skills in this interactive sequel to Strategic Action Planning focused on real-world troubleshooting. Panelists will dissect participant-submitted actions and campaign challenges, offering constructive feedback on targets, tactics, escalation, and structure.Learn to diagnose what’s not working, refine your approach, and adapt plans in dynamic organizing environments. Recommended Prerequisite: Strategic Action Planning
Preparing for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience and High Risk Nonviolent Direct Action, Part 2 (Sustainable Safety Practice)
This workshop builds on the lessons from Preparing for NVCD and High Risk NVDA (Part 1) and features role play exercises that allow participants to practice nonviolent discipline under pressure. Learn what to expect during arrest, how to assert your rights while in custody, and the value of jail support, legal support, and mutual care. Recommended prerequisites: NVDA Marshals Training and Preparing for NVCD and High Risk NVDA, Part 1.
Election Protection (Bonus)
This session prepares volunteers to safeguard elections through nonpartisan support, ballot drop box monitoring, and rapid response to problems. Participants learn voter rights, how to watch for misinformation and suppression, deescalation skills, documentation practices, and how to coordinate with legal teams and hotlines to ensure every eligible voter can cast a ballot.
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM Break
Mingle, network, and buy merch!
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM Closing Plenary Panel: Reflections on Resistance
A panel of veteran activists reflect on their time in the trenches, the lesson we can carry home from Resistance Bootcamp 2.0, and take your questions.
Event Overview & Key Details
Join us in Portland on June 27 & 28 for Resistance Bootcamp 2.0, a two-day gathering designed for activists, organizers, and community advocates committed to nonviolent action. This event features hands-on workshops, safety training, and organizing strategies to help you make an impactful difference in your community.
Whether you’re a seasoned activist or new to organizing, you’ll gain practical skills in building movement resilience and sustainability. Our sessions are led by experienced trainers and tailored to equip you with tools for safe and effective activism.
If you did not attend Resistance Bootcamp 2025 and you haven’t attended a Resistance 101 training on another occasion, the trainers strongly recommend attending one of the scheduled zoom presentations of Resistance 101. Resistance 101 introduces principles and practices of nonviolent resistance, protest logistics, protesters’ rights, and basic deescalation techniques. This instruction is foundational to sessions of Resistance Bootcamp 2.0.
Trainers also strongly recommend that all participants attending sessions in the Sustainable Safety Practice Track have attended the Nonviolent Direct Action Marshals Training in the last year, as material in this course is foundational to the entire safety curriculum.
The venue is fully accessible, with step-free entry, accessible restrooms, and seating. Public transportation options are available nearby, and we encourage carpooling to reduce environmental impact. Please let us know in advance if you have specific accessibility needs so we can do our best accommodate you.
Light refreshments will be provided. We recommend bringing a notebook, reusable water bottle, and comfortable clothing suitable for active participation.
Additional details, including venue location, parking, and transit options will be emailed to registered participants one week before Resistance Bootcamp 2.0. For security, we will not be disclosing the location of Resistance Bootcamp 2.0 publicly.
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