The Health, Healing & Environmental Justice Group is a collaboration made up of a national network of healers and healing justice organizers who have joined together for the purpose of promoting healing and wellness as integral to social justice work at the USSF. They are calling for volunteers, medical supply donations and general support.
Archives for June 2010
Transformative Intermediaries Group | Who are the TIGgers?
This month’s Activists, Allies, and Agents of Social Change (3A) section highlights all of the organizations that make up the Transformative Practice Canopy at the US Social Forum (USSF).
The Transformative Power of Practice
A central component of any change process – personal change or organizational change – is the concept of practice. But what is practice and why is it so important?
What is Transformational Change?
WHAT IS TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE?
by Robert Gass
In recent years, many social change activists have been exposed to principles, tools and practices loosely referred to as “transformational.” Numbers of trainers, facilitators, consultants, coaches and other intermediaries use the word in their work, and there is a growing field of “social transformation.” This term and field actually encompass a wide range of approaches, and there is as yet no agreement about what is and what is not “transformation.”
Faith & Spirituality at USSF
Faith & Spirituality will be represented at the US Social Forum (USSF). The Faith & Spirituality group is a collective of different organizations and individuals that are interested in lifting up faith and spirituality as a path to transformation.