The Intention of this guide
Provide a big
picture look at offerings related to spirituality, religious organizing,
healing justice and transformational practice from many different corners of
USSF.
Highlight the
multiple expressions of related work that is evolving in movement-building.
What do faith,
spirit, healing and transformational practice have in common?
How are they different?
Spark
conversation and deepen strategy.
How does the
nature of social justice work change
when it is rooted in spiritual,
healing and transformational practices?
Share some of
what's been planned for the Forum. There are literally hundreds of workshops
that are related to the themes offered here.
What is missing?
Faith and Spirituality
We are religious leaders, faith-based organizers, people who hold the
sacred as central as we work to heal the world. Our movement building and
organizing comes out of and is motivated by our religious traditions and
commitments. What does it mean to be human? How shall we envision
and build economy if there is to be a future at all? What now, on a globe of
disappearing creatures and cultures, is sustainable? How do we bring faith and
spirit to bear in practical struggle? The time is ripe for faith
and spirit.
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Health & Healing Justice
Grassroots healers, medical practitioners and health justice organizers are coming together to build, to strategize, and to
transform the role of healing in liberation. The vision of the HHJ work is to dream for organizing and uplifting the role of healing inside of
liberation to transform our conditions, generational trauma and violence. This includes the healing traditions
that have long been a part of the legacy of our movements, as we build new
practices that connect us to our ancestral legacies and liberation traditions,
and ensure the sustainability of our movements by creating organizing
strategies that practice wellness. Click for more. Transformative Practice
Transformative
social change is an approach to movement work that seeks to build more
effective, sustainable, resilient and effective organizations and alliances. Transformative practices address the
root causes of systemic injustice by linking paths to inner awareness with paths
to effective social change. We commit
to practicing who we want to be, working in a way which projects what we hope
to have reflected back to us in our vision for a just society. The practices of transformative
movement-building range include the contemplative, the creative, the embodied
and the relational. They may be
rooted in religious or spiritual paths, psychological understanding,
organizational development and more. Click for more
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