As we face a multitude of issues that are impacting the health of our communities, many of us are asking: What Can I Do? 

In response, The Compassionate Communities Healthcare Movement and the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights are partnering to host a coordinated series of interactive workshops focused on cultivating the knowledge, capacities and community needed to develop and engage in an effective, nonviolent, grassroots movement. 

Throughout history, nonviolent movements created and developed at a community level have been integral in enhancing the health of communities. We will come together to expand our understanding of this powerful approach, engage in practices that enable us to develop our skills, and organize, as described by Martin Luther King, “a beloved community” of practitioners of nonviolence.

Each time we come together, we will enjoy a healthy, homemade dinner, share our stories and insights, consider individual and collective opportunities for meaningful action, and identify next steps.

We will welcome many voices, including those not often invited to the conversation. Local artists, musicians, poets and other community members will help us create a nourishing space so we can begin to heal ourselves and our community and move forward together.