The first things that you will notice about Cara Page are her thoughtfulness, her warmth, her ability to articulate layers of complexity and meaning, her abiding interest in the impact and responsibility of legacy, her commitment to centralizing healing into movement building, her deep Love for the South…
Kindred | Southern Healing Justice Collective
The Kindred southern healing justice collective, is a collective of grassroots healers, radical medical practitioners and organizers that concern themselves with deepening the capacity and wellness of social justice organizers and social justice movements, especially those rooted in the South.
Generative Somatics | Somatics & Trauma Practitioners Training 2011
Somatics and Trauma: Practitioners Training 2011 Transformation and Action In 2011, Generative Somatic’s Somatics and Trauma training will support you in learning to transform trauma through the body with somatic […]
FSLI | Forward Stance Leadership Initiative
The Forward Stance Leadership Initiative (FSLI) is a project of Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ). Its purpose is to share the principles of Forward Stance with other social justice activists, whether they be intermediaries, meta-intermediaries, or those doing work on the frontlines.
Transformative Organizing | Liberation of Self & Society
There is a major opportunity for the social justice movement to reassess its approach, envision a new way of organizing, and greatly increase its impact. The question is: Will the social justice movement of the 21st century meet…
Report Back from USSF | Practice Every Moment and A Movement Defined
Thousands of activists from all over the nation gathered in Detroit last month for the US Social Forum. The 5 day gathering was jam-packed full of workshops, people’s movement assemblies, direct actions, plenaries, performances, cultural events, healing events, and more.
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“With the awareness that comes from being in relationship to one’s inner life, we can sow the field in which our motivations grow, so that our good intentions for true […]
Make Your Voice Heard
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Ai-Jen Poo | Organizing With Love
Ai-Jen Poo shares her views on transformative organizing, social justice movement work, collaborative dialogues, and important organizing principles and political lessons learned from over 15 years doing organizing work. Interview reprinted from the Organizing Upgrade website.
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.”