Upcoming events.

Cohort Training 2025!
Sep
6
to Nov 8

Cohort Training 2025!

Our cohort training is back for 2025! This year, it will run from September to November for nine weekly sessions. Our time together has the following twin focus:

1) We aim to support all participants in forming and maintaining a solid Beloved Community Circle (BCC).

  • Develop a solid understanding of the BCC “DNA”: our purpose, structure, foundational views, and the three commitments of social action, contemplative practice, and community care.

  • Learn how to reach out and connect with people, and to offer enjoyable, productive Circle gatherings

  • Learn skills to incorporate mindfulness or contemplative practice into gatherings, and how to build deep, caring relationships among all members.

2) We aim to support participants to deepen their awareness of social justice issues and to cultivate skill in action.

  • Learning about nonviolent resistance and its application

  • Learn about how intersectionality and identity shape social justice engagement

  • Exploring links among climate change, preserving democracy, and mindfulness

  • Practicing ways of discerning action directions and begin action planning

To view the full schedule, participant requirements, and to register, go here.

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Transforming Our Powerlessness
Apr
19

Transforming Our Powerlessness

Transforming Our Powerlessness to Help Heal a Hurting World

A Half-Day of Empowerment with John Bell, Dharma Teacher & Beloved Community Circles CTC Member. Saturday, April 19, 2025 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PT/12:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET. Register here.

What would you do if you were not afraid? How are feelings of powerlessness hindering you? What helps you feel your power to make a difference? How can our mindfulness practice help? You are invited to join other practitioners to explore our feelings of powerlessness, its root causes, and how to heal and transform these feelings to even better fulfill our aspiration to make a difference to help a suffering world.

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March Public Square
Mar
22

March Public Square

Join us for our open Public Square. This is an informal gathering to come together with others in our network, share joys and sorrows, ask questions relevant to BCC work, and be in community,

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Event One
Feb
22

Event One

  • https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/FSH2_x-BQVulabbZ8RG37A (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This Introduction to Beloved Community Circles will provide you with the tools to start a Circle of your own. Learn about how existing Circles organize themselves, common challenges they face, and how they move through them. Come with questions and be ready to meet lots of amazing people!

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