facets of being Global Disparities in Power and Privilege by Sara and Yulia

Facets of Being—Global Disparities in Power and Privilege is an invitation to explore identities and social location in local and global contexts. We will dance around the expanded spiral of the Work That Reconnects while turning our gaze towards our own pockets of power and privilege or lack thereof—shifting our perspectives— and weaving diverse narratives into a fabric that can hold all of humanity.

In this six-week course, we will expand our awareness of global disparities and our emotional capacity to hold reality in all its complexity and contradictions. We will play together, tell stories and engage our imagination to move beyond the oppressive systems that thrive on greed and supremacy serving a few while exploiting the planet and the global majority.

Date and time: Wednesdays May 13 until June 17, 2026 at 18:00-20:00 Cairo (EET), 11am-13:00 EDT, 17:00-19:00 CET, 20:30-22:30 IST

Format: 6 sessions, 2 hours each – online on zoom

Facilitated by Sara El-Sayeh and Yulia Smagorinsky

Cost: $350-550 sliding scale, some scholarships will available upon request

Facets of Being—Global Disparities in Power and Privilege meets the prerequisites for the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program of 12-hour WTR full spiral group work as well as providing social location/anti-oppression training.

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Sara El-Sayeh, SJ FDP co-facilitator
Sara El-Sayeh (she/her), M.A. is an Egyptian writer, (single) mother and facilitator roaming the fault lines of Cairo. Sara has an MA in economics in international development and spends a lot of time contemplating life post growth. She’s a Post Growth Institute fellow (2025) and works with the imagination as an important tool to carry us forward on the path of degrowth.

Post-revolution and mid-collapse, her work explores what it means to belong, and at times completely refusing to, in a place that demands that she becomes convenient.

Sara maps the geographies of single motherhood: the labyrinth of repair and care as resistance. Her work helps (her) navigate the freeze of capitalism while slowly weaving communities of care to nourish us through times of collapse.

Yulia Smagorinsky (they/them), M.Sc.Agr, Spiral Journey administrator and co-facilitator.
Yulia is a farmer, weaver of social change and healing, permaculture designer and a graduate of the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program and registered facilitator of the Work That Reconnects Network.

As a horticultural educator and restorative justice practitioner in the Healing Garden at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Service Center, Yulia creates beauty and healing spaces and hands-on experiential opportunities for youths.

Yulia is a co-founder of Emergent Abundance Farming Collective, sharing food, knowledge, skills, information, access to land and sources of healing with the local community. They are actively creating platforms and pathways to hold space for others to heal, to listen deeply and transform.
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