CompassPoint

CompassPoint Capacity Building and Consulting Services are back! Explore our offerings: https://lnkd.in/gZpd9NRi Learning as a team can be a powerful way to shift practices, systems, and culture across your organization. CompassPoint is now offering "in-house" learning experiences that build upon the content from our public workshops and can be tailored specifically for your organization's goals around growth, learning, and change. Available Offerings: ?? Facilitation of Courageous Conversations ?? Interpersonal Workplace Mediation ?? Peer Coaching Circles ?? Team Culture Building Retreats ?? Workplace Equity & Justice Assessment When we partner with organizations on capacity building and consulting projects,?we center relationships while applying an equity lens.?We are focused on working in collaboration with leaders and organizations—not reinforcing ideas of top-down expertise.?Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gZpd9NRi We look forward to exploring opportunities to collaborate with you! ? ?

Workshops for 2025 are live! Sign up now to grow your leadership: https://lnkd.in/gHgatAD A new set of CompassPoint?2025 workshop dates?is here, including new dates for?BIPOC-only learning spaces. Looking for liberatory spaces to reflect, learn and connect with peers, and practice skills around coaching, conflict resolution, time and energy management, facilitation, supervision, organizational change and transition, finance, or fundraising? We got you! https://lnkd.in/gHgatAD

"The goal of fascists is to scare leftists into stopping a progressive agenda. Yet to truly defeat fascism we must create the opposite —movements that are so vibrant and relevant to everyday people that the allure of fascism is eliminated." https://lnkd.in/gqMST4XW

TOMORROW: In this special post-election conversation,?Autumn Brown of AORTA?will host an intergenerational dialogue between two brilliant movement organizers and strategists, Ricardo Levins Morales and Arianna Genis. Speakers will offer an initial assessment of the post-election landscape, and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities opened up by the new political terrain. In sharing stories with one another, in celebrating our victories and mourning our losses, this offering creates space for folks to find the threads of practice that lead to greater freedom, now and tomorrow. https://lnkd.in/gT8mfhdp

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During times of grief, fear, and rage, poetry and art often become a source of medicine that nourishes and fortifies our souls. This evergreen, timely poem and offering written by CompassPoint's very own Laura Eberly paints a picture of a world we can co-create, together. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/dn_KaW_p The First Week: A Poem by Laura Eberly If we all agreed to, on Monday ???we could plant a pollinator garden on every corner ???and turn over one parking spot per block ???to vegetables and fruit. But first, on Sunday ???we should assemble all the healers— ???all the yogis, chiropractors, sangomas, and sage smudgers— ???and ask them to have coffee with the matriarchs, ???and the refugees, ???and the trans sex workers, ???and the small town queers, ???and anybody who has yelled at a marble building through a bullhorn, ???or raised a child in times of war, ???and by lunchtime all of us would learn ???to locate, heal, and fortify our spines. That evening, ???the musicians would find our diaphragms ???and teach us new songs ???to sing while planting. On Tuesday after the gardens, ???we would repair every roof, ???install rain barrels and solar panels, ???retrieve the lost balls and frisbees and kites, ???and remember that we are tiny beneath the sky. On Wednesday, ???we'd fix the heaters ???so the gas could never be cut off, ???and install a tiny lead filter in every faucet. By Thursday, ???we would know each others’ names ???and begin to tell our stories. ???Then ???the farmers and the roofers and the plumbers ???would be honored by the doctors and the lawyers, ???who had spent their first week ever listening. ???Next, venerations and reparations ???from the bankers and professors, ???who will learn that education isn’t learning ???and money isn’t value ???and nothing is the feel of soil in your hands ???or throwing back your head to sing. ???We will ache for love and owning nothing ???and for the first time ???that will make us unafraid. By Friday, ???we will be too busy ???healing, tending, and child-rearing ???for waging war, ???so the soldiers will have no orders. ???The police will have quiet radios and no calls, ???so we will tear apart the prisons ???and send the guards to rehab, ???where first-graders and nursery workers will teach them slowly ???to trust humanity again, ???beginning with their own. ???We will use the bricks and fences ???to build community centers with wide porches ???where the grannies can knit and keep watch instead. Saturday would be for rest: ???hammocks, ???creeks, ???and lemonade. ???We would listen to the earth ???and the spirits ???and our ancestors ???and our lovers ???and our beloveds ???and the bullfrogs ???and the songbirds ???and the tall grass ???and the redwoods ???and the oak trees breathing ???for one day ???every week. ???Breathing. And by next Sunday, ???we would know who else we need.

Join LeaderSpring Center for their upcoming Equity Series: Healing is Justice! Discover the crucial role of individual and collective healing in fostering justice and liberation, and how it enhances our well-being. ?RSVP NOW:?bit.ly/healingisjustice

Our latest learning series, 'How You Be?' Radical Visioning as Black Leaders, is 2 weeks away! Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/dkbDrSBG Kicking off Friday, November 15th, this learning series provides the time, spaciousness, peer support, and resources for Black people in leadership to grow their creativity and vision in order to reground in their purpose and increase their transformative impact on the organizations, communities, and movements they lead. Meet the brilliant team behind our newest program offering for Black leaders: spring opara, Program Lead spring is a Project Director and “Yelder” (youthful elder) at?CompassPoint. In her time at?CompassPoint, spring has pursued her life’s purpose—deconstructing and dismantling white supremacy through a self-care lens and centering self-care as a radical act of liberation for our most marginalized communities. She co-created a leading edge health, wellness, and self-care curriculum for Black women in leadership, which she delivers for?CompassPoint?through our public workshops and cohort leadership programming. spring draws from African Spiritual Practices and has immersed herself in understanding how to implement Indigenous ways of being into today’s movement landscape in order to dismantle systems of oppression. Maryssa Hall, Co-Facilitator Maryssa brings her experience as a capacity builder and community organizer to her role as Project Director at?CompassPoint. She envisions a world of collective liberation—where Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), womxn, trans folx and those outside of the gender binary, Queer people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, working people, and immigrants are free from oppression, can thrive as their full authentic selves, and create transformative change in their communities. Their approach is rooted in Black Queer Feminist thought and they employ an intersectional and transformative justice lens in their work. As a life-long learner (and unlearner) ella’s greatest lessons have come from working in and with community outside of formal academic environments. Kyla Hartsfield, Co-Facilitator Kyla is a Project Director at?CompassPoint?and a Southern Black Queer woman who hails from North Carolina. Kyla has six years of experience organizing around prison/police abolition, climate change, and ending gender-based violence. She uses the lens of abolition and anti-capitalism to fight and dream of a new world. Kyla is extremely passionate about creating safe spaces for Black people, learning and teaching conflict resolution, as well as creating and tending to the community. She leaves you with her favorite quote from Arundhati Roy: “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

Less than 4 weeks away: How You Be? Radical Visioning as Black Leaders, a learning series for Black leadership, starts Friday, Nov. 15th! https://lnkd.in/dkbDrSBG When Black folks step into greater power and responsibility, they often inherit old visions and outdated traditions of enacting leadership that don't necessarily align with or fully capture their brilliance, values, and potential. This learning series provides the time, spaciousness, peer support, and resources for Black people in leadership to grow their creativity and vision in order to reground in their purpose and increase their transformative impact on the organizations, communities, and movements they lead. Participants can expect to connect and build community with other Black leaders to create and refine their visions for the future, explore their purpose, and garner ancestral?+ daily self-care practices to support their personal sustainability. Participants will also unpack how oppression impacts their relationship to power and map out tangible next steps for materializing their visions of leadership. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/dkbDrSBG

Are you experiencing challenges with managing your time and energy when it comes to work? Join us for our upcoming workshop, "Manage Your Energy, Reclaim Your Time: A Path to Personal Sustainability," starting Tuesday, Nov. 5th! Learn more & register at https://lnkd.in/gjUerSuX Be part of a supportive peer learning space in which you reground in your purpose and learn tools for making your workload work for you. This is an online training covered in two parts. We hope to see you there!