<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText">Community Members, Activists, and Organizers </DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText">Spirit in Action is offering two training-of-trainers with follow-up leadership support for people who share our mission:<SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> 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. <SPAN style="">Spirit in Action fills a much-needed gap that has been identified by activists and organizers, providing movement-building tools and the training to explore, practice and integrate those tools. Spirit in Action's 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 within the Circle Leadership Network integrates the four core strategies for building a broad-based movement.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">four core strategies:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><OL style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1"><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Connecting with Spirit:</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> 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.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Healing from Divisions: Building a Diverse Movement:</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> 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.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI><LI class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Collective Visioning for a Positive Future:</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> 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.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></LI></OL><P class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: -24px;margin-left: 0.5in; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">4</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Action for Deep and Lasting Change:</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> 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.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0px;"><SPAN style="">Please consider joining us.</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0px;"><SPAN style="">Phyllis Labanowski</SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0px;"><SPAN style=""> </SPAN></DIV><SPAN style=""></SPAN><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>