PUBLIC EVENTS

Announcing SOIL’s 2025 Pod Greenhouses
March 15th, June 28th, Sept 20th, Dec 6th
12:30pm-3pmET / 9:30am-12pm PT

Pod Greenhouses are virtual work and practice spaces to support pod-building.

Registration for the March 15th Pod Greenhouse will be sent to the SOIL email list on March 3rd. 

The goal of our Pod Greenhouses is to support individuals to build pods and capacity for transformative justice and collective care. 
Please note: Pod Greenhouses are not trainings. Participants will be working together in break out rooms for the bulk of the time. 

Making dedicated time for pod work continues to be one of the biggest obstacles people face in building and maintaining pods. SOIL hopes that this space will foster practice, connection and community. 

Possible ways to use the Greenhouse space: 

• Gain support from others in building your pod(s). 

• Support others to build their pod(s).

• Build/create self motivation and self accountability re pod building.

• Meet new people who are building TJ in their lives. 

• Engage in TJ conversations about pods with people across the U.S. and beyond.

• Register as a group for specific and/or designated pod work. 

Registration is free and open to all. Participants may register as an individual or as a group for as many of the Pod Greenhouses as they like. Registration for each Greenhouse will be sent out over the SOIL email list 2 weeks prior. 

Individuals will be randomly placed into small groups together. We are excited for people to meet each other from across the country (and beyond, since we have many folks on our SOIL email list who are based in other countries). We hope this cross-pollination will help to grow TJ community and who knows, people may even end up meeting new pod members. In addition, those who have had great success at building their pods are encouraged to attend so they can support others in their pod-building. 

Groups who are coming as a pod will be placed in their own breakout rooms. We hope this will be a place for existing/new pods to make designated time for their pod work. 

All participants registering as a group must choose and enter the same group name in order to be placed together. This is so our tech team knows where to place you. Registering groups may have any number of people in their breakout room. However, we recommend large groups consider registering as multiple groups, given the time limitation. 

SOIL staff will be on-hand throughout to answer questions. 

Accessibility: Since this is a practice space most of the time will be spent in breakout rooms. Due to the accessibility limits of Zoom, we are not able to offer live captioning or language interpreters in breakout rooms. Participants will have the option to enable Zoom translated captions to/from English and any of these supported languages. However, attendees who share a language, and therefore would not need translation, may register together to be placed together in a small group in their own room. We acknowledge the limitations of automatically generated captioning and language translation and wish Zoom had better accessibility support across its platform. 

For security purposes, this event requires Zoom authentication. This means you must have an email address associated with a Zoom account in order to register for and join the event as our event staff will be cross checking for digital safety. (Sign up for a free Zoom account)

Registration information for each Greenhouse will be sent through the SOIL email list.