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                            October 25-28, 2012   
                            1st Annual Standing in Our Power Gathering at Hope Springs Institute, Peebles, Ohio    

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                            Spirit in Action's POWER UP Networks support people to create and facilitate networks for progressive movement building. POWER UP provides grassroots communities with new learning, innovative practices and a creative model to strengthen existing networks, as well as build new ones. Read more.

                            Why Networks?

                            Click above to see interviews of members of PCN (Progressive
                            Communicators Network), the first network we built!

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                            NEW Standing in Our Power (SiOP) Blog Post 
                            Cherine Badawi, SiOP core committee member, shares four primary ingredients to standing in her power.  Check out her reflections on community, work, growth and nature.  Cherine sees SiOP "as a foundation that will hold us all in re-membering ourselves and getting up when we fall down."  Read More.

                            A Year of Visioning 
                            We are encouraged with the results of our national week of visioning, January 15-21.  Groups in cities such as Boston, Durham, Oakland, Washington DC, and New Orleans held collective visioning sessions.  In order to support more communities in this process, we are excited to provide this platform throughout 2012.  Read more.

                            Reflections on Women's Herstory and Collective Change
                            Linda Stout shares a story about Rosa Parks, reminding us that social change happens when people work together to create collective change.  She calls for a revision of our social movement narratives so that women's roles are taken seriously.  Read more.




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