Global Grassroots

10/07/2024

How does mindfulness make us better leaders and change agents and improve our resilience and relationships? Find out. This month I will be teaching a new Introduction to Conscious Social Change course in just 5 weekly Zoom sessions. Sign up now. Sliding scale. We have just a few places left:

Introduction to Conscious Social Change

09/13/2024

I'm excited to share my Autumn 2024 Course Offerings in Conscious Social Change. We have 3 spaces left for our Practitioner Training Program, beginning in October, and our Introduction to Conscious Social Change is starting in the next 1-2 weeks. To learn more, read on or go to https://www.conscioussocialchange.com/courses.

INTRO TO CONSCIOUS SOCIAL CHANGE: For those who would like a taste of what Conscious Social Change is, I am offering an introductory, experiential workshop on the Five Capacities – with a 1.5 hour Zoom call once a week for 5 weeks. The course offers a reflective path where we may consider our own wellbeing and purpose, invest in deeper inner work, and consider how we may contribute to the larger common good. DATES: either Mondays at 9am PT / 12pm ET starting September 16 or Tuesdays 5pm PT / 8pm ET starting September 24.

MINDFUL DESIGN LAB: If you have an idea for a social-purpose initiative that you would like help incubating, consider enrolling in my Mindful Design Lab. This experiential course provides change leaders with the skills to invest in their own self-understanding and initiate social change mindfully, sustainably and with impact at home or abroad. Over the course of 20+ modules, you will be guided through a mindful issue diagnosis, explore change from the inside out, apply mindfulness as a design tool in the development of your solution’s concept, and design the first year of operations, organization, and financials for a complete venture plan ready for your implementation. This program is available to any social venture start-up for one-on-one or cohort-based support.

CONSCIOUS SOCIAL CHANGE PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM: This fall, for the first time in 4 years, I will be offering an opportunity to join my 12-month Practitioner Certification program beginning in early October. This training course provides you with all the skills needed to facilitate the core Conscious Social Change curriculum used in my Mindful Design Labs or Global Grassroots’ Academy for Conscious Change to a population of need in your community. The program involves weekly contemplative practices and weekly journal assignments, two group Zoom calls per month, readings, personal transformation and small social change projects, a 9-day intensive in spring 2025, and a practicum where you volunteer lead the curriculum for a chosen community. The training program requires approximately 1-3 hours per week of practice and engagement, and 80% participation in all assignments are required for certification. Speak with me about my sliding scale or scholarships if that might be helpful to you.

12/05/2023

My next Introduction to Conscious Social Change course starts January 11, for five Thursdays: 9 -10:30 am PT / 12 - 1:30 pm ET / 5 - 6:30 pm GMT

Conscious Social Change is a design philosophy and methodology of creative, compassionate problem-solving and solutions-building grounded in mindfulness and self-awareness. This intro course is a 5-week virtual and experiential series. Each week, in a 1.5 hour Zoom session, we will explore a different capacity of Conscious Social Change:

1) Cultivating Presence - the science of mindfulness and its relevance to social innovation
2) Becoming Whole - examining our own relationship to deep transformation from the inside out, including our unconscious patterns, fears and biases
3) Ensuring Balance - deepening our capacity for self-care and resilience
4) Engaging Mindfully - learning how to use mindfulness as a design tool for social change
5) Leading from Within - exploring a new leadership ethos driven from within

The course offers a reflective path as we begin a new year, where we may consider our own wellbeing and purpose, invest in deeper inner work, and consider how we may contribute to the larger common good.

The cost is $200-$300 sliding scale. Learn more:

Introduction to Conscious Social Change

12/05/2023

I am offering a new 250-hour practitioner certification in my Inner Leadership and Conscious Social Change curriculum, beginning the week of January 15. Conscious Social Change is a design philosophy and methodology of creative, compassionate problem-solving and solutions-building grounded in mindfulness and self-awareness.

A select cohort of mindful change agents will journey together over the course of 12-months, with weekly contemplative practices, two group Zoom calls per month, plus a 9-day Training Intensive this summer. The Intensive provides a complete experiential education-based training in the Conscious Social Change curriculum, methodologies, mind-body trauma-healing techniques, mindful social venture development, facilitation and coaching methods, and approaches for working with trauma-sensitivity, teaching in an under-resourced context or with vulnerable populations. It is designed to prepare practitioners to deliver this core curriculum as a Mindful Design Lab incubator or other format in a community of their choice. Deadline to apply is January 5th. More information can be found here:

A 250-hour, 15-month experiential certification program involving individual practice, classroom learning, supervised service and community engagement per participant.

05/13/2023

Less than 24 hours to make a donation to Global Grassroots in honor or your mom or someone who has been like a mom to you! When you make your gift, leave your mom's name and email address in the Comments section of the donation page and we will send her an email tomorrow - Mother's Day - informing her of your thoughtful gift in her honor.

Use this link to give your mom something special for Mother's Day while also supporting vulnerable women bringing clean, safe water and social change to their communities in East Africa:

https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/GlobalGrassroots/OnlineDonation.html

From all of us at Global Grassroots, thank you for your generous support!

05/12/2023

The clock is ticking! Mother’s Day is nearly upon us.

Make a gift to Global Grassroots in honor of your mom or someone who has been like a mom to you and help vulnerable, marginalized moms in East Africa change their lives, the lives of their children, and their communities.

For gifts received by noon (EDT) Sunday, we will send your honoree an email on Mother's Day telling of your thoughtful contribution; just be sure to include her name and email address in the Comments section of the donation page: https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/GlobalGrassroots/OnlineDonation.html

Let's honor the women who do so much for their families and their communities. We are deeply grateful for your support. Thank you!

05/10/2023

Want to give your mom – or someone who is like a mom to you –
something truly meaningful this year for Mother’s Day?
What about a gift in her honor to Global Grassroots?

Many of the women who join our Women’s Water Leadership Initiative are single mothers who live in extreme poverty with little to no education. They walk hours every day to dug wells or polluted rivers to access water then carry full 5-gallon jerry cans back home, again taking hours. They don’t have the luxury of turning on a tap and having an unlimited water supply, literally at their fingertips…

Yet, despite the challenges they face, they all are committed to improving the lives of their children and their communities. With our help, they design, construct, and launch nonprofit ventures that bring clean, safe, sustainable water right into their villages, serving up to 3,000 people, and they run social change programs that support girls’ education, eliminate gender-based violence, improve child health, and educate the community on women’s rights, family planning, and more.

Wouldn’t your mom be proud to support the efforts of these moms? Wouldn’t you?

Make your gift before noon on May 14 and, on Mother’s Day, we will send your honoree an email telling of your thoughtful contribution; be sure to include her name and email address in the Comments section of the donation page: https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/GlobalGrassroots/OnlineDonation.html

Please join us in honoring the women who do so much for their families and their communities. We are deeply grateful for your support. Thank you.

04/22/2023

To conclude our Earth Week celebration, , one of our Uganda staff, leads us in a lovely short meditation in honor of Earth Day today.
Francis doesn’t always have the benefit of practicing mindfulness in a peaceful setting. As you can hear, he is in a public location - yet he manages to find stillness anyway. So, if you think you can’t find a quiet place to meditate or the time while you’re out living your busy life, remember this video. If Francis can, you can too.

Thank you for sharing Earth Week with us. If you would like to contribute to our work with vulnerable women and girls in East Africa. Please visit our website.

04/21/2023

“Women on the team are seen as role models and exemplary by other women, for they are self-confident and able to speak up by themselves.”

When women lead, communities succeed.

Show your support here: https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/GlobalGrassroots/OnlineDonation.html

leadership

04/21/2023

Global Grassroots Conscious Social Change curriculum includes BreathBodyMind training, helping program participants heal from trauma, cope with adversity, and understand the impact of change. Participants become more deeply attuned to their emotions, expectations, and capabilities and are much more likely to live their lives and lead their communities more equitably and with deeper compassionate.

04/20/2023

WAGE® (Women And the Green Economy®),
EarthDay’s own Global Policy Platform “is designed to encourage and expand women’s leadership”. Through Global Grassroots’ program, women-led water teams in Rwanda gain skills and knowledge to advance their own ideas for social change in their communities. By designing, building, and implementing water points and leading programs that teach water conservation, nutrition, the importance of girls education, women’s rights, family planning, entrepreneurship, etc., the women in our programs become respected leaders in their villages and the surrounding area.