Reading Rupture: From Reacting to Reading Rupture often arrives as interruption: a moment when the flow of things is broken and we cannot continue as before. In social, ecological, and justice-rooted work, these moments are increasingly common — and frequently met with speed, control, or premature resolution. This first public RinA webinar opens an inquiry into what it means to read rupture rather than react to it. Ruth Cross begins from a specific moment in her own practice, drawn from years of work in complex political contexts including migrant justice organising and arts-for-justice education. She situates this experience within her ongoing inquiry with Research in Action (RinA), where rupture is understood as a lived social phenomenon that emerges between people, shaped by wider histories of power and structural pressure. Using short, carefully chosen conceptual anchors — including John Shotter’s notion of “striking moments” and Erin Manning’s work on “minor gestures” — the session explores how rupture first appears not as a clear problem, but as a subtle shift in atmosphere, relation, or attention. The final part of the webinar opens into a facilitated reflexive dialogue, inviting participants to bring their own experiences into the inquiry. This is not a discussion aimed at solutions, but a shared exploration of how perception, presence, and regulation shape what becomes possible next. Rupture, Reframed is a three-part public webinar series exploring how we work ethically with moments that disrupt, expose, and change us. Developed by RinA Fellow, Ruth Cross, during five years of inquiry in complex political contexts, this series treats rupture not as a problem to fix, but as a live social phenomenon carrying crucial information about power, responsibility, and what becomes possible next. Across three sessions, participants are invited into a shared public inquiry — moving from perception, to accountability, to collective repair — through lived experience, carefully chosen conceptual anchors, and facilitated reflexive dialogue. You are welcome to attend the whole series or a stand alone event.

Locating Responsibility: From Personalisation to Power Awareness When rupture becomes visible, responsibility often collapses onto individuals. Someone is blamed, defended, or exposed, while the wider forces shaping the moment remain unexamined. This personalisation can feel relieving — and it frequently reproduces harm. This second webinar explores how to locate rupture within systems of power, history, and positionality, shifting the focus from individual behaviour to shared accountability. Beginning again from lived experience, Ruth Cross traces how moments of rupture in racial justice education and migrant rights work revealed not personal failure, but the collision of differently positioned realities. She situates this learning within her longer RinA inquiry, where rupture is read as a micro-phenomenon emerging from macro conditions of inequality and oppression. Drawing on Leticia Nieto’s distinction between target and agent skillsets, alongside Mario Blaser’s writing on “worldings,” the session invites participants to consider rupture as a meeting of worlds rather than a breakdown in communication. These ideas are offered as lenses, not explanations — ways of staying with complexity without collapsing it. The final 45 minutes open into a reflexive dialogue space, where participants are invited to reflect on how responsibility is distributed, avoided, or misassigned in their own contexts, and what becomes possible when accountability is understood as a collective practice. --- Rupture, Reframed is a three-part public webinar series exploring how we work ethically with moments that disrupt, expose, and change us. Developed by RinA Fellow, Ruth Cross, during five years of inquiry in complex political contexts, this series treats rupture not as a problem to fix, but as a live social phenomenon carrying crucial information about power, responsibility, and what becomes possible next. Across three sessions, participants are invited into a shared public inquiry — moving from perception, to accountability, to collective repair — through lived experience, carefully chosen conceptual anchors, and facilitated reflexive dialogue. You are welcome to attend the series or stand alone sessions.

After rupture, pressure to act can be intense. Statements are drafted, decisions made, momentum restored. Yet action taken to relieve urgency often leaves root causes intact and those most impacted at the periphery. This final webinar turns toward what it means to move with rupture rather than past it — framing ethical action as collective movement grounded in trust, learning, and repair. Beginning from moments of rupture that unfolded publicly, Ruth Cross reflects on how responses shaped by speed often reproduced the very dynamics they sought to address. She situates these experiences within her RinA inquiry into ethical action, where rupture is understood not as something to resolve, but as a threshold into re-patterning how we act together. Drawing on adrienne maree brown’s invitation to “move at the speed of trust,” alongside Hannah Arendt’s understanding of action as something that happens in word and deed among peers, the session explores ethical movement as relational, public, and unfinished. The final part of the webinar opens into a facilitated reflexive dialogue, inviting participants to explore how collective repair might take form in their own work — acknowledging differentiated impact, integrating multiple perspectives, and imagining new structures, practices, or ways of moving forward together. --- Rupture, Reframed is a three-part public webinar series exploring how we work ethically with moments that disrupt, expose, and change us. Developed by RinA Fellow, Ruth Cross, during five years of inquiry in complex political contexts, this series treats rupture not as a problem to fix, but as a live social phenomenon carrying crucial information about power, responsibility, and what becomes possible next. Across three sessions, participants are invited into a shared public inquiry — moving from perception, to accountability, to collective repair — through lived experience, carefully chosen conceptual anchors, and facilitated reflexive dialogue. Attend the whole series or as a stand alone event.