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Cultivating Belonging for Collective Liberation
The EmpowR Community is for humans who are navigating paths of personal and collective healing, cultural transformation, and consciousness evolution for a just and liberated world. We explore old and new ways of being in loving relationship with ourselves, each other, and the planet.
Get Involved & Join EmpowR Community to…
- Become a mutual aid network to meet the needs of the people in our community so we have more capacity to show up and take action in adjacent spaces and our different geographically located homes.
- Mobilize community towards action in existing social and environmental justice movements.
- Plant, nurture, and fertilize seeds in the dark, weaving through mycelium networks of connection and relationship to conjure, enchant, and incubate possibilities and abundance for communal care that lie beneath the threats of fascism.
- Practice somatic abolitionism to weave the world anew through the ripples of shifting harmful patterns and outdated thinking held by a coalition building community of practice.
- Engage with people from many geographic areas with recognition of indigenous lands to act in service to the responsibility of tending to repair of the ecological and cultural impacts of colonization.
About Our Community:
We are a soul home for consciousness expanding humans who weave connection between paths of healing with social and environmental justice. We believe individual healing supported by communal care and accountability builds conditions for collective liberation. Together we are remembering, reweaving, and rewilding relationships to ourselves, each other, and our Earth Mother.
Our community began in 2021 and includes an intergenerational mix of activists, facilitators, healing practitioners, organizers, parents, storytellers, teachers, witches, and anyone moving towards roles in the social change ecosystem. We focus on meeting the needs of the people in our community to build our collective capacity for resource sharing and collaboration, mutual aid web weaving, and movement building towards The Great Turning.
Our community embraces ability, age, class, gender, and racial diversity. We believe neurodiversity is brilliance and welcome people who have been historically excluded and people who benefit from dominant systems to weave together in collective healing and cultural transformation.
MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENTS:
- A set of communally designed Group Agreements in how we engage with each other.
- Building alignment together around our shared values and cultural conditions.
- Holding ourselves collectively accountable to emergent strategy and transformative justice principles.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED COMMUNITY:
EmpowR Transformation operational funding comes from our EmpowR Community.
Membership pays for EmpowR Transformation operational costs and labor. We apply the values of community-centric fundraising to our financial model. Our community both gives and receives in a fluid dance of reciprocity as we work together to shift from scarcity thinking to embodied abundance. We do not receive outside funding to sustain our operations which allows us to navigate our own community compass without constraints and harms of the nonprofit industrial complex and extractive business models.
Membership benefits include both planned and emergent community gatherings and ways to connect — held virtually and in person at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary in Plainfield, Vermont. Benefits are the same across all paid membership levels, and include options to both support and be active participants on the Web of Change Makers team. Members pay with tiered pricing based on wealth, access to resources, and commitments to organizational development. These are explained in each membership level.
Membership extends to member partners and children. Members are responsible for sharing communication and information with partners and children who want to participate.
What EmpowR Community Members Are Saying…
“Being a part of the EmpowR Community has been a transformative experience for me, both personally and professionally. It provides me with a supportive network of individuals who share my commitment to racial and gender justice, fostering personal growth, and a sense of belonging with people who are trying to create change. Everyone’s participation matters and it is fulfilling to be a part of a community dedicated to collective healing and repair.”
“My participation in EmpowR Community allows me to stay connected to the challenging inner and outer work that being antiracist requires; and that for me, can be really easy to run away from. This community gives me a place where I can hold myself accountable to show up, and to practice what I’m learning and who I’m becoming without judgment. The community has helped push me beyond my comfort zone with genuine care and connection.”
“Joining the EmpowR Community gives me a space, both virtually on our monthly zoom calls and physically with access to Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary land and events, to be and practice expressing my true and authentic self. I find freedom in the group container to practice anti-oppression in ways that help me unwind colonization within the way I act, think, and feel in my body, mind and spirit. While at the same time feeling safe enough to bring all parts of myself including the practical, emotional, and magical.”
“Being a member of the EmpowR Community has an enormous benefit to be accountable in my words and actions, and to foster growth in kind and reciprocal relationships. I believe the ripples of what takes place in EmpowR Community gatherings benefit all of our broader communities as a whole from the learning and unlearning that takes place when we bear witness together in shared space.”
“For a long time as an activist, I have been fueled by anger, ego, and fear of the future. I got involved in EmpowR programs and community which help me understand how to slow down to show up. My experiences in the community help me grapple with the pain and anxiety that clouded me by helping me re-center myself in love, hope, and learning how to feel grounded. I am eternally grateful for EmpowR and the powerful and magical culture we are weaving in community!”
