Welcome to the Community Rising Collective!

Cultivating the capacity for connection, care, courage and collective change.

Our liberation is bound up together. We are deeply interconnected, and the more we learn to attune and attend to our own and one another's nervous systems, needs, and realities, the more capacity we build to consciously co-create lives, communities, and systems rooted in love and care. The possibilities for transformation—from cultivating healthy life habits to creating systemic change—expand exponentially when we learn, practice, and act together. Change requires imagination, time, commitment, practice, and companionship.

At a time when many of us are feeling overwhelmed, isolated, exhausted, and uncertain how to respond to the challenges facing our communities, Community Rising Collective invites you to join us in creating a different path. Together, we cultivate the capacity to remain grounded, connected, and hopeful while engaging the long work of justice and social transformation. We learn how to care for ourselves and one another, build resilient relationships across differences, and take strategic action rooted in our deepest values.

This year-long transformational journey and community of practice focuses on immigrant and racial justice, trauma awareness, embodiment, and collective liberation. It is a journey of tending and encouraging ourselves and one another as we resist systems of domination and participate in creating systems of care. A journey into deeper relationship with our authentic selves, our bodies, the rhythms of the earth, Creator, our calling, one another, our local communities, and broader social movements. Together, we cultivate the wisdom, courage, skills, and relationships needed to help shape a more just and life-giving future.

Through our shared learning and practice, we grow our capacity to:

• listen to and tend our bodies and nervous systems;

• recognize patterns of stress, burnout, and overwhelm;

• stay grounded during difficult conversations and challenging times;

• navigate conflict with greater skill, curiosity, and courage;

• cultivate sustainable rhythms of action and rest;

• build meaningful relationships rooted in trust and mutual care;

• practice collective care and shared leadership;

• understand systems of oppression and their embodied effects;

• imagine and embody alternatives to the status quo;

• connect our values with practical action;

• participate in community without losing ourselves;

• contribute to movements and communities in ways that are sustainable over time;

• help create the kind of lives, relationships, communities, and future we want to live in now.

Perhaps most importantly, Community Rising is an opportunity to experience what becomes possible when people intentionally cultivate trust, imagination, and collective capacity together. We believe lasting transformation emerges not only from what individuals practice, but from the quality of the relationships, communities, and ecosystems we create together. Our invitation is to practice becoming the kinds of people and communities capable of nurturing a more just, connected, and life-giving world.

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

― Lilla Watson