Our 2025 Cohort Training is open for registration!

If you’re looking for community and support to apply your spiritual practice to social justice engagement, we warmly invite you to join us for the 2025 Beloved Community Circles training! We will support participants to gain skills in our three organizational pillars: community care, mindfulness practice, and social justice engagement. As we face unprecedented environmental and social challenges, we offer this training in the spirit of generosity, to remind you and your community that you are not alone in this moment. We can create the world we want together.

Participant Requirements

We ask that before registering, you ensure that you:

• wants to start or deepen a Beloved Community Circle and have capacity to do so

• can commit to attend at least 7 of the 9 weekly online sessions in Sept and October 2025

• will attend with at least one other person from your location, and more if possible

• have proficiency in understanding and speaking English. We are working on making our training more accessible to people who speak different language, and will include translation breaks in our programming towards this end.

Schedule and Weekly Topics*

*subject to change as the situation demands

Week 1: September 6th. Course overview, community guidelines, getting to know one another.

Week 2. September 13th: “BCC DNA.” Learn to get started with a Circle, from recruitment to meeting facilitation.

Week 3. September 20th: Learn from existing BCCs about Circle-building and sustaining strategies. Connect with other participants in small support groups.

Week 4. September 27th Guest Speaker: “Nonviolent Resistance Movements and Applications” with Daniel Hunter.

Daniel Hunter coaches and trains movements across the globe. As founder of Choose Democracy he’s fought against Trump’s coup attempts and consolidating authoritarian power. He has trained extensively with ethnic minorities in Burma, pastors in Sierra Leone, and independence activists in northeast India. He has written multiple books, including "What Will You Do If Trump Wins,” "Climate Resistance Handbook" and "Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow."

Week 5. October 4th: Troubleshoot common challenges in Circle work. Share questions and connect in support groups.

Week 6. October 11th: Explore intersectionality and learn tips for building inclusive communities.

Week 7. October 18th: Develop an action plan in your local Circle and share out.

Week 8. October 25th Guest Speaker: “Mindfulness & Climate Change” with Kaira Jewel Lingo.

Week 9. November 2nd: Closing session. Review learnings, assess the program, review next steps, and share appreciations.

Interested? To register, please complete this form.