Our Liberation is Bound Up Together
Are you:
Wondering how to stay human, hopeful, and effective in a world that feels like it’s unraveling?
Feeling called to action yet uncertain how to engage?
Longing for meaningful community and connection ?
Seeking sustainable and life-giving ways to contribute?
A person of faith and/or conscience committed to creating a more just world?
Our Invitation
The world needs communities capable of caring, imagining, adapting, grieving, celebrating, resisting, repairing, and creating together.
Community Rising is an invitation to practice becoming those communities. To slow down, listen, and reconnect with our bodies. To understand the systems we inhabit. To cultivate relationships that can hold complexity. To imagine and embody more life-giving futures.
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 possibilities for transformation expand when we build relationships, learn, imagine, and act together—practicing the futures we long for.
Community Rising Collective is a year-long community of practice for people of faith and conscience who long to engage social change in ways that nurture both personal and collective thriving.
Together, we tend and encourage one another as we cultivate the capacities needed to co-create lives, communities, and systems rooted in love and care.
Through Community Rising Collective we:
Find Belonging
Become part of a community of shared care and aligned values.
Build meaningful relationships across differences.
Connect to broader community and movement networks.
Strengthen Personal Capacity
Increase resilience, discernment, and wellbeing.
Develop greater ability to reflect, regulate, and act.
Sustain engagement without chronic burnout.
Build Collective Capacity
Practice collective care, co-regulation, and shared leadership.
Learn how healthy groups, organizations, and movements thrive.
Create systems that do not depend on heroic individuals.
Contribute to Transformation
Deepen understanding of injustice and liberation.
Develop capacity for strategic social change.
Help create communities that embody the future they seek.
“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
Testimonials:
"There were things I always wanted to do but didn't quite know how. Together, they become more possible."
"This group gave me more courage to step out—not just in learning, but in being active."
"Examining the challenging dynamics in our society and in ourselves, and giving one another a safe space to process and to get excited about doing things together has been really beautiful and positive for me."
"The learning and encouragement I've received has changed the way that I function as a person in community and how willing I am to step out and step up for things that are important to me."
"The relationships we've developed have blossomed and deepened to a level that I cannot even express how much I value. It's really life-changing to have relationships like that."
“I found a place where I could stay connected to both the reality of the world and the possibility of change."
Reserve a Connection Conversation
This is a focused, personalized conversation for community members and leaders of faith and conscience with a deep commitment to justice who seek to deepen their capacity to thrive and collaborate to create communities and systems of care.
This session is designed to help you see clearly.
In this 30-minute call, we’ll:
✅ Pinpoint the root cause of challenges currently draining your vitality
✅ Clarify what you truly want next, and identify the next aligned step to move toward it
✅ Explore whether deeper support inside the Community Rising Collective ecosystem is a strong mutual fit
A Quick Note on Integrity: We respect your time and energy—and ours. If you’re unable to attend, please cancel or reschedule ahead of time.