Practicing Feedback as a Love Language
May 16 & 17th, 2026 at 10am-12:30pm PT
A weekend workshop for friends, lovers, and comrades who yearn for the intimacy of relationships that are capable of tension, conflict, and rupture.
Feedback is the mode through we can co-create change, for more aligned relationships with our values, our people, and ourselves.
It is a core building block in both minimizing conflict and making repair after rupture. As well as encouraging and re-affirming what works.
Feedback is a crucial, foundational skill in cultivating nourishing relationships and sustainable movements.
But feedback is hard! In both receiving and giving. There are big feelings, power dynamics, and sometimes, conflicting needs.
This workshop is for you if you:
believe that what we practice on the small scale ripples out into cultures and systems.
aim to embody abolitionist praxis and are committed to strengthening your relationships through difference, conflict, and rupture.
want to re-orient to feedback, not as a scary confrontation but as a loving invitation for furthering connection.
want to develop and practice skills that account for feelings, power, and nuance.
Agenda
Through teaching, prompts, discussion and somatic exercises, we will explore both theory & practice.
Day 1: What needs re-orienting?
Responsive vs. proactive feedback
Consent and people-pleasing
Carceral logic & shame
Power dynamics
Discernment
Day 2: What needs practice & repetition?
Reflecting & re-imagining
Assessing purpose & strategy
Writing & practicing scripts
Leaning into discomfort
The Container
Live on Zoom with access to a recording for registrants
Dates & Time: Sat. & Sun. May 16 & 17th, 2026 at 10am-12:30pm PT
Format: Slides, reflection prompts, group shares, script practice, somatic exercises
Accessibility
Automated live captioning will be available via Zoom. Unfortunately, ASL interpretation and more accurate closed captioning is not available for this offering but I will be working on this for future offerings!
We will also make use of Padlet for crowdsourcing ideas and notes (optional).
Everyone who registers will receive the recording and slides. Folks may request for access to slides before the workshop.
Payment plans & scholarships available.
Words of Affirmation
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Words of Affirmation 〰️
“I deeply appreciate this offering as the timing aligned perfectly with a current (and ongoing) repair process with a loved one. We were giving prompt for reflection, strategies for approaching conversations and time to journal in order to receive feedback. My conversations and conflict have all ended with a lot more ease now that I have this skills update. I am excited to keep on growing and learning!”
— A.“This work is revolutionary work! Ji-Youn has a way of getting to the heart of feedback and shared practical ways of practicing skills to better our communication and capacity. I feel better equipped, both intellectually and somatically, to venture more proactively into feedback conversations.”
— KateTickets
90 USD for the two days.
Payment plans broken into 2 or 3 separate payments are available ($45×2 or $30×3), as well as limited scholarship spots for SDQTBIPOC — send an email.
If you have a friend, lover, or comrade with whom you’d like to practice feedback, consider sharing the workshop link for them to join you.
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The Facilitator
Hello hello~ My name is Ji-Youn 지연 (they/she).
I come to this work primarily as a Mad psychiatric survivor. After some years of heightened Madness where I both experienced and caused a lot of harm and rupture, I committed myself to studying love and practicing relational skills as a way of survival.
I know in my bones what it means to need each other. I would not be here if it were not for the deep commitment of my care web and our shared patience in learning skills for repair and healing after trauma and rupture.
As a fa-silly-tator and therapist-ish, I am delighted to be able to share these Mad skills with immense joy and enthusiasm. And this work stems from many ruptured relationships, deep grief and heartbreak. In this offering, I aim for us to hold both the grief of what was and what could’ve been, as well as the joy of what is possible. I look forward to sharing space and co-creating more loving worlds with you.
For further questions, feedback or inquiries, email me at jiyoun@itsjiyounkim.com.