Visionary Organizing Lab exists to teach Visionary Organizing, an approach to change that equally emphasizes our material needs and non-material needs. We believe that when we learn to equally emphasize our material and non-material needs, we begin to exist in ways that allow us to create communities, organizations, and institutions …
The Strategic Nonviolence Academy is a vital initiative designed to empower leaders in building and executing effective movements. In an era where massive protests often occur but sustainable victories are elusive, the Academy offers a comprehensive approach that integrates strategic thinking (Head), community connection (Heart), and organizing skills (Feet). It …
Founded in 2022 by Director Malkia Devich-Cyril, Radical Loss is a Black-led change lab transforming how movements face loss and catalyze grief into powerful leadership and action. Black, Indigenous and Arab changemakers, as well as other communities on the frontlines of bereavement are the central practitioners in this lab. Radical …
How the first Beloved Community Cohort—a transformative 9-month journey rooted in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of Beloved Community—is reshaping movement building, community building and leadership, and healing justice, for a more resilient world.
Statement in Solidarity with Palestine The Beloved Communities Network (BCN) stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people as they continue to resist a 75-year history of occupation, Israeli state violence, and systematic genocide. We grieve the loss of all innocent lives, with almost 8,000 Palestinian lives lost to Israeli state …
Calvin Williams Senior Advisor at Think Common Entertainment Dynamic cultural strategist & policy futurist with 15+ years’ experience in building immersive, irresistible narratives for justice, equity and inclusion. Skilled in organizing creative, story-based campaigns that activate diverse constituencies to exercise their power to achieve their vision for the future where …
Kristen Lynn Zimmerman Storyteller, World-Builder and Way-Finder Kristen is a storyteller, world-builder and way-finder based in Oakland, CA. Her comics and stories weave magic, memory & nonfiction to repair intergenerational ruptures, reconnect us to ancestral wisdom, and open new possibilities for the future. Her people are the ones who live …
Getting There Together: A Guidebook & Coloring Book! DOWNLOAD Published by Movement Strategy Center A Self-Directed Process for Transformative Teams Cultivating Regional Transitions.
Out of the Spiritual Closet: Organizers Transforming the Practice of Social Justice DOWNLOAD By Taj James, Neelam Pathikonda, Brenda Salgado, Kristen Zimmerman Published 2010 This report, the first of MSC’s series on Transformative Movement Building, dives into the experiences of individual social justice leaders as they integrate spiritual, creative, or otherwise transformative …
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Love With Power: Practicing Transformation for Social Justice DOWNLOAD By Julie Quiroz, Kristen Zimmerman, Black Lives Matter, BOLD, Engage Network, Forward Together, generative somatics, Movement Generation, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, OUR Walmart, Strong Families Movement Published 2016 Love With Power tells the story of groups and networks …
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