<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Community Members, Activists, and Organizers </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Spirit in Action is offering two training-of-trainers with follow-up leadership support for people who share our mission:<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. Spirit in Action and its </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Circle Leadership Network </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">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 <B>C</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>ircle Leadership Network</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> 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:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><OL><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><B>Connecting with Spirit:</B></SPAN></FONT><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></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><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><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></LI><LI style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><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><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. 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></LI></OL><P style="text-indent: -24px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 48px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">4.</SPAN></FONT> <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><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></P><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please consider joining us.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Phyllis Labanowski, CLN Co-coordinator</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">413-369-9985</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">www.spiritinaction.net</DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 0px;"><SPAN style=""> </SPAN></DIV><DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML>