“With CGA and GROW, you are helping organizers and organizations to rediscover the heartbeat, or forgotten core in the heart of organizing, which is deep care for each other and love for our communities.”
Francis Calpotura
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Our Mission
The Center for Grounded Action is a catalyst for progress and resilience, providing four pillars of support that bolster movements for social, economic, racial, and climate justice. We lead Grounded Resilience Training, organize inclusive community events, facilitate courageous dialogues for conflict resolution, and strengthen organizations to help them amplify their impact and effectiveness.
We help people and groups be more effective, resilient, relationally intelligent, and successful. We support organizers, leaders, every day people, and the organizations they work with to create a world guided by the values of connection, unity, compassion, progress, and love.
Moving You Through Conflict to Action
Where Inner Change Meets Outer Transformation
Strengthening
Organizations
What We Do
Grounded Resilience Training
We empower you and your team to have greater impact. The Grounded Resilience Training and GROW empower you and your team with easy to implement skills that create relational intelligence and resilience, so that you can have the greatest impact.
Community Events that Unite
We create events that unite people. In times of local, national, and global crises, we create a big tent, give people a way to connect, take action, and advance progress. We advise groups on planning their own powerful events that unite.
Dialogues Across Division
We partner with you to facilitate healing. We help communities overcome the pain that comes from division and polarization, with courageous, from the heart, dialogue, relief, and healing.
Resources
Internal Family Systems. IFS is a key model we draw on to work with different parts of us and help the parts integrate with Self leadership. Dick Schwartz the founder of IFS has said he is ultra supportive of the work we are doing to take IFS beyond therapy and into community and public spaces
We offer several models of our Dialogues Across Divisions. If you'll sign up to get connected, we'll gladly share the models and offer guidance and advice. We also are available to support your community or group with a facilitated Dialogue. Before beginning any dialogue, the key is to create a clear, strong structure which creates a container for strong feelings and strong personalities. When the structure and container is clear, and people are given new skills for how to manage their own inner reactive feelings (which may likely happen), and new skills for how to respond with validation or empathy even when they disagree, they are then ready to speak. We have given prompts for each round of dialogue that help to keep people focused on their feelings, hearts, concerns, and the impact on their lives, rather than on their political positioning. When we can hear another person’s concerns, feelings, worries, story, and needs, we can relate to someone who holds different views far more easily with empathy.