[Antiracism] Spirit in Action's Circle Leadership Network - programs this Fall

[Phyllis Labanowski]

Community Members, Activists, and Organizers
Spirit in Action is offering two training-of-trainers with follow-up  
leadership support for people who share our mission: to support,  
sustain, and connect those who are passionate about justice, love,  
equality, creativity, and sustainability to work collectively for  
deep and lasting social change and for the protection of the planet.  
Spirit in Action and its Circle Leadership Network fills a much- 
needed gap that has been identified by activists and organizers,  
providing movement-building tools and the training and support to  
explore, practice and integrate those tools. The Circle Leadership  
Network offers community members, concerned citizens, activists and  
organizers the chance turn their gaze inward in the company of  
others, and then to begin to work together across difference to  
create holistic visions and act collaboratively towards  
transformative social justice. All of our work integrates four core  
strategies for building a broad-based movement:
Connecting with Spirit: Acknowledging spirit is a conscious  
recognition of our wholeness, interdependence, and interconnection to  
all life on earth. Integrating this understanding of spirit into  
social justice work brings forward what inspires and sustains us.
Healing from Divisions: Building a Diverse Movement: Being in diverse  
community is essential to making broad-based change in the United  
States. To enjoy the privilege and responsibility of being in diverse  
community, people are called to recognize that we share both a common  
humanity and particular social identities, which accord power in  
unbalanced ways. Bridging this power divide is at the heart of  
healing divisions.
Collective Visioning for a Positive Future: Vision is a foundation  
for action. The work of visioning has an intrinsic connection to  
action for change - a continuum that includes personal change work,  
relationship and community building, and direct political action to  
enact systemic change. Collective visioning supports the work on all  
these levels.  As we work to change ourselves, create our concrete  
images of a positive future, and vision collectively, we are taking  
steps toward change enacted on a societal scale.
4.   Action for Deep and Lasting Change: Action for deep and lasting  
change exists along a continuum that includes mass demonstrations as  
well as supporting the psychological, physical, and spiritual health  
of activists. Circles serve as a space for doing the less dramatic  
forms of activism, such as self-care, trust and relationship  
building, and the examination of strategy and development of new  
change tools.

Please consider joining us.
Phyllis Labanowski, CLN Co-coordinator
413-369-9985
www.spiritinaction.net

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