Please join us every Sunday for a community meditation. This is a sitting meditation in the Buddhist tradition. These offerings will be mostly silent sitting, but we may do traditional prayers in Tibetan and English. We will be gathering from 5:00-6:00pm at the GWI Greenhouse (65 St. James Street, Kingston). For more information, please contact David McCarthy (845) 389-4903.
Mothers Out Front Kids’ Clothing Swap
A free event to swap kids’ clothes. No need to bring anything to participate. Please bring clothes and shoes only (no toys!). To drop in advance please email [email protected].
Talking Courageously About Israel/Palestine
Discussions about the current war in Gaza are often emotional and polarizing, causing strain and rifts in families and communities. We will learn and use several of the core practices of The Compassionate Listening Project’s approach to conflict resolution. We will listen and speak with one another in guided exercises and structured dialogue about the urgent situation in Israel/Palestine. We will listen with curiosity and respect for all experiences and points of view, speaking from our hearts about our own experiences, and practice empowering ways to have more productive conversations about this conflict we all care about deeply. For more information, please email [email protected].
Healing The World From the Inside Out: Introduction to The Compassionate Listening Project Way of Dialogue
In this experiential course you can become a more effective peace-maker in our world as we learn the core skills of the Compassionate Listening approach to transforming the energy of conflict into opportunities for connection and deeper understanding, and practice how to bring them into challenging situations in our families, workplaces and communities. This course will take place on 3 consecutive Wednesdays, beginning October 3, 2024 from 6:30 – 9:30pm at the GWI Greenhouse, 65 St. James Street, Kingston. For more information, please email [email protected].
Healing The World From the Inside Out: Introduction to The Compassionate Listening Project Way of Dialogue
In this experiential course you can become a more effective peace-maker in our world as we learn the core skills of the Compassionate Listening approach to transforming the energy of conflict into opportunities for connection and deeper understanding, and practice how to bring them into challenging situations in our families, workplaces and communities. This course will take place on 3 consecutive Wednesdays, beginning October 3, 2024 from 6:30 – 9:30pm at the GWI Greenhouse, 65 St. James Street, Kingston. For more information, please email [email protected].
Healing The World From the Inside Out: Introduction to The Compassionate Listening Project Way of Dialogue
In this experiential course you can become a more effective peace-maker in our world as we learn the core skills of the Compassionate Listening approach to transforming the energy of conflict into opportunities for connection and deeper understanding, and practice how to bring them into challenging situations in our families, workplaces and communities. This course will take place on 3 consecutive Wednesdays, beginning October 3, 2024 from 6:30 – 9:30pm at the GWI Greenhouse, 65 St. James Street, Kingston. For more information, please email [email protected].
Ellis Island Initiative Mid-Hudson Roundtable Discussion
The Ellis Island Initiative is hosting a discussion to develop strategies on how to integrate and welcome our new migrant families into our communities and devise pathways to gainful employment for themselves and their families. Join us on Wednesday, September 25th from 9:00 – 11:00am at the GWI Greenhouse: 65 St James Street, Kingston. For more information and to register, click the link below.
The Ellis Island Initiative is a statewide coalition of New York’s leading labor, business, faith and advocacy organizations aiming to transform the state’s approach to integrating migrant families into our communities.
Authors Dr. Resmaa Menakem & T. Mychael Rambo
GWI is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother’s Hands Dr. Resmaa Menakem to Kingston for a talk about his new book The Stories From My Grandmother’s Hands. He will be joined by co-author T. Mychael Rambo. Copies of their new book will be available for sale. The talk will be followed by a Q&A.
“In today’s America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we’re broken or we’re healed from that brokenness. But that’s not how healing operates, and it’s almost never how human growth works. More often, healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.” ― Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
This free, public event is sponsored by GWI, and supported by Rough Draft Bar & Books with support from the Radio Kingston Community Tech Team.
Event Overview:
- 5:45 – 6:00pm : Check-in, pick up your book, grab a drink/snack, and settle in!
- 6:00 – 7:15pm : Resmaa Menakem and T. Mychael Rambo, in conversation with Micah (GWI), discussing The Stories From My Grandmother’s Hands.
- 7:15 – 8:00pm : Book-signing + mingling!
About Resmaa Menakem:
Embodied provocateur, multiple-levels thinker, and structural paradigm-shifter Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICSW, SEP), is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice for living and culture building, Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute and is an educator and coach. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa Menakem is the challenging yet compassionate coach we all need in this time of racial reckoning and near-global dysregulation.
About T. Mychael Rambo:
T. Mychael Rambo is a three-time Mid-West Emmy Award winning actor, vocalist, author, arts educator, and community organizer/healer; whose talents have made an indelible mark on stages across the twin cities. nationally and internationally. He has appeared in local and national television commercials, feature films, HBO mini-series and other television programming. Nationally and internationally his credits include Carnegie Hall and performances abroad in Africa, Europe, and South America. T. Mychael is an accomplished recording artist, highly sought-after public speaker, and affiliate professor in the College of Liberal Arts, Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota; where he has taught in excess of 20 years.
Climate Grief Conversations
GWI and Jenny Bates are holding ongoing climate grief conversations. This group will meet on the first Thursdays of the month, (though this one is on the second Thursday) at The Greenhouse 65 St. James St. on the corner of Clinton street and St. James Street in Uptown Kingston. This group is free and open to anyone who has concerns about the climate, about our City of Kingston, and who are stressed about an uncertain future.
“We are picking up distress signals, as living beings on this planet” – Jenny Bates.
Grief is not easily processed alone. The grief felt, consciously or unconsciously regarding the planet is on a scale previously unknown to our species. This series of conversations is an opportunity to share and verbalize what is felt in the context of group that will be facilitated with care, support and a sense of belonging in a confidential and fully respectful manner.
You can listen to Micah and Jenny speak on The Good Work Hour about this topic.
If you have any questions, email [email protected] or [email protected]
Climate Grief Conversations
GWI and Jenny Bates are holding ongoing climate grief conversations. This group will meet on the first Thursdays of the month, (though this one is on the second Thursday) at The Greenhouse 65 St. James St. on the corner of Clinton street and St. James Street in Uptown Kingston. This group is free and open to anyone who has concerns about the climate, about our City of Kingston, and who are stressed about an uncertain future.
“We are picking up distress signals, as living beings on this planet” – Jenny Bates.
Grief is not easily processed alone. The grief felt, consciously or unconsciously regarding the planet is on a scale previously unknown to our species. This series of conversations is an opportunity to share and verbalize what is felt in the context of group that will be facilitated with care, support and a sense of belonging in a confidential and fully respectful manner.
You can listen to Micah and Jenny speak on The Good Work Hour about this topic.
If you have any questions, email [email protected] or [email protected]
Climate Grief Conversations
GWI and Jenny Bates are holding ongoing climate grief conversations. This group will meet on the first Thursdays of the month, (though this one is on the second Thursday) at The Greenhouse 65 St. James St. on the corner of Clinton street and St. James Street in Uptown Kingston. This group is free and open to anyone who has concerns about the climate, about our City of Kingston, and who are stressed about an uncertain future.
“We are picking up distress signals, as living beings on this planet” – Jenny Bates.
Grief is not easily processed alone. The grief felt, consciously or unconsciously regarding the planet is on a scale previously unknown to our species. This series of conversations is an opportunity to share and verbalize what is felt in the context of group that will be facilitated with care, support and a sense of belonging in a confidential and fully respectful manner.
You can listen to Micah and Jenny speak on The Good Work Hour about this topic.
If you have any questions, email [email protected] or [email protected]
Climate Grief Conversations
GWI and Jenny Bates are holding ongoing climate grief conversations. This group will meet on the first Thursdays of the month, (though this one is on the second Thursday) at The Greenhouse 65 St. James St. on the corner of Clinton street and St. James Street in Uptown Kingston. This group is free and open to anyone who has concerns about the climate, about our City of Kingston, and who are stressed about an uncertain future.
“We are picking up distress signals, as living beings on this planet” – Jenny Bates.
Grief is not easily processed alone. The grief felt, consciously or unconsciously regarding the planet is on a scale previously unknown to our species. This series of conversations is an opportunity to share and verbalize what is felt in the context of group that will be facilitated with care, support and a sense of belonging in a confidential and fully respectful manner.
You can listen to Micah and Jenny speak on The Good Work Hour about this topic.
If you have any questions, email [email protected] or [email protected]