Public Webinar — Rupture, Reframed (3) Ethical Movement: From Urgent Action to Collective Repair

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.