Windcall Institute

Están cordialmente invitados a nuestra
Sesión de Práctica del Solsticio de Verano con

Dr. Joi Lewis, Windcall Alum '23

Cultivamos este espacio de práctica, para reunirnos y continuar profundizando nuestro compromiso con el bienestar personal, la sostenibilidad y el deseo de poder permanecernos a largo plazo en el movimiento. Durante estos tiempos turbulentos, Windcall ofrece aguas tranquilas a las que podemos regresar de manera estacional.

Vierne 21 de Junio

1 - 2:15 pm ET | 12 - 1:15 pm CT | 11 am - 12:15 pm MT | 10 - 11:15 am PM

Exploraremos el elemento de "Fuego" representando la expresión creativa de Windcall. Nos motivaremos mientras damos la bienvenida a la temporada de verano.

www.windcall.org/stayingpower

Have you heard? We have something special happening...just for you! You don't want to miss this!

Our Summer Solstice Practice Session is happening next Friday! We are kicking off the summer season with Windcall's 🔥 element, which symbolizes creative expression! Let's get motivated together!

We cultivate this practice space, providing a regular touchstone to gather and continue to deepen our commitment to your personal well-being, sustainability, and long-term Staying Power in the movement. During these turbulent times, Windcall offers steady waters to return to on a seasonal basis.

When: Friday, June 21st
Time: 1 - 2:15 pm ET | 12 - 1:15 pm CT | 11 am - 12:15 pm MT | 10 - 11:15 am PT
Where: Virtual (register at windcall.org/stayingpower)
Cost: FREE! FREE! FREE!

Presenter: Dr. Joi Lewis, Windcall Alum '23
Dr. Joi Lewis is the author of Healing: The Act of Radical Self-Care. She is a community healer, joy instigator, food-prep pro, scholar-activist, and founder of Joi Unlimited and the Healing Justice Foundation. As a highly sought-after speaker, facilitator, and space holder, she is on a mission to put healing in the hands of everyone, everywhere. Her work is deeply informed by growing up in East St. Louis, Illinois, grounded in healing justice, liberation, and Black Joy. She claims the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota, as her adult home. Dr. Joi has a daily practice of showing up fully in her body and living in connection with all who believe in freedom. She offers this meditation to all who believe in liberation: May The Revolution Be Healing, which is also the title of her upcoming book.

Feel free to share this invite with movement friends looking for space to heal and ground in a beloved community.

Peace,

Dr. Joi and Windcall Institute's Staying Power team

Just say no to burnout culture - know the signs and trends.

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What are you waiting for? It's the last week to apply for our 9-month long program that includes a 1 week or 3 week retreat in one of our beautiful nature sites.
Apply here: https://windcall.org/residency/

Last chance to register! Join us for our quarterly Staying Power practice session on Wednesday to welcome the Spring Equinox with Michaela Harrison, come learn what the whales have to teach us about organizing... register now at www.windcall.org/stayingpower Please help us spread the word by sharing.

Believe in radical operations? Find joy, not the devil, in the details, because administrative work is the invisible glue that holds movements together? You may be the perfect fit to join Windcall's team as Administrative Assistant. This is a full time non-exempt position with great benefits, mostly remote though quarterly travel required, and a preference for applicants in Atlanta. Please share widely! www.windcall.org/hiring

It is time to center healing and wellbeing on individual and communal levels. For the last 35 years, Windcall has put on for in need of time and space to rest so they can continue to fight for their communities. Please join us for our final informational session to hear wisdom from our alumni. #
Register at windcall.org/residency

Now more than ever, we need to center our , , and for the long road ahead. For the last 35 years, Windcall has put on for in need of time and space to reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose and center their wellbeing. Please join us for our next two informational sessions and share with your networks.
register at windcall.org/residency

We hope 2024 has been as easeful as possible. In this difficult time, we want you to know our applications are coming out next month. Please share with organizers you know who need rest and renewal. Learn more about applying to Windcall by attending an info session.

To Register: https://windcall.org/residency/

Opportunity from the field!

The Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund invites applications for the third cycle of Collective Knowledge, a mentoring program aimed at cultivating and sustaining emerging leaders from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BI&POC) communities in operations, fundraising, and communications within social justice movements. The program offers a nine-month commitment from January to September, with virtual or in-person mentorship sessions, optional meet-ups, and opening and closing virtual gatherings.

The call is open for mentors and mentees until December 15th, encouraging BI&POC leaders in social justice to apply for this space of reciprocal and intergenerational knowledge sharing.

📣Mentor Application: https://www.collectiveknow.org/mentor/
Current or former BI&POC staff of movement organizations who have been in their roles for 3+ years
We are looking for mentors across all roles in the organization: organizing, program, operations, fundraising, communications, etc.

📣Mentor Partner (Mentee) Application: https://www.collectiveknow.org/mentor-partner/
BI&POC staff (ages 18-30) in the first 1-3 years of their role within a movement or social justice organization
Mentorship opportunities for staff across all roles: organizers, program, operations, fundraising, communications, etc.

Check out this Bay Rising blog post about our partnership that's been developing over the last few years to strengthen and nurture Bay Area organizer's "Staying Power" for the long haul.

Building Resilience: Bay Rising’s Partnership with Windcall Here at Bay Rising, we believe that resilience work plays a vital role in sustaining our organizations and the broader social justice movement. Resilience work encompasses a range of practices and initiatives aimed at protecting our ability to navigate and thrive in the face of adversity, whether i

The answer to this question? Windcall Institute says yes.

Opinion | Can Everyone Take a Sabbatical? We all need a rest.

Join us next Wednesday June 21st at 10am PT | 11am MT | 12pm CT | 1pm ET and celebrate Summer Solstice with Windcall Institute alum Jihan Gearon to explore the FIRE of creative expression. Free and open to all movement friends, comrades and allies. Register now @ www.windcall.org/stayingpower

Check out Compass Point's new learning series for Black folks yearning to explore self-care and community care in community with each other. Learn more here:

Self-Care for Black Folks Series SELF-CARE FOR BLACK FOLKS SERIES You're invited to join a learning series for Black folks looking to build knowledge, practices, and skills around self-care, creating a culture of care at your organization, and developing a stance of community care in service of our collective liberation.This series...

Meet our amazing Spring 2023 residents! Next year, this could be YOU! We're cultivating spaciousness by providing the weekend to finish your application - we've extended the deadline until 9am ET on Monday, April 3rd. Find out more about the residents, our program and apply now at windcall.org!

Oh the Places You Could Go! Check out all of the beautiful retreat sites that are a part of our 9-month residency program. We are accepting applications for just one more week. Please consider applying and sharing this with organizers on the verge of burnout who could benefit some rest and reflections. More information and application at windcall.org/residency - deadline is March 30!

TOMORROW - still time to register! Our seasonal practice sessions invite our alumni and justice movement friends and allies to experience Windcall's resilience practices together, in beloved community. REGISTER NOW @ www.windcall.org/stayingpower

We are excited to have Tavia Benjamin co-facilitate our "Winter Waters" Practice Session!

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Tavia Benjamin (they/them) is a vibrational healer, energy worker, and intuitive spiritual facilitator. Their guiding mission is to reconnect people to themselves and their sovereignty, to one another, and to earth through ritual, creative space-making, and removing obstacles to connection. They are guided by their values of love, adaptability, healing, and service to themself and all living beings on the Earth. Tavia has worked in the issue areas of food sovereignty, land liberation, environmental justice, and transcending trauma, especially in Afro-Diasporic communities. Tavia stays focused on embodying liberation and creating liberated spaces for people, especially BIPOC communities, to reconnect to their divinity and sovereignty to create sustainable, holistic systems change. Figuring out how communities can heal and be their whole selves is what motivates and excites Tavia about working towards a more beautiful and loving world.

You can find more about Tavia and connect with them on Instagram .

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We are cultivating this practice space with the expressed intention of providing a regular touchstone to gather and continue to deepen our commitment to your personal well-being, sustainability and long-term Staying Power in the movement.

We hope you can take some time in your end of year schedule for this unique experience of having a dedicated moment for rest and reflection. Join us TOMORROW to take this moment of self listening as we enter into a new annual cycle around the sun.

This is a great opportunity to make some time in your schedule to reflect after the elections and recoup some of the energy you extended in organizing your communities this last year - take a moment to replenish and refill your own cup.

It's been a long, ongoing pandemic.
Join us to rest and reflect on how we move forward
while taking good care of ourselves and each other.

REGISTER NOW @ www.windcall.org/stayingpower

Celebrating Windcall’s 2022 Residents

In 2022, 55 organizers embarked on a transformative healing journey to find renewed sense of purpose and perspective as they continue to seek justice in their various communities.

For a full list of residents and their bios visit
https://windcall.org/residencies/awardees/

Job Opportunity Through the Windcall Alumni Network

Windcall alumn and former board member, Melinda F. Wiggins, helped guide Windcall for many years. Please see the job opportunity below with her organization the LIFT Fund.
Labor Innovations for the 21st Century Fund - (LIFT) Fund, is a unique collaborative fund dedicated to supporting new forms of worker organizing and coalition building between philanthropy and the labor movement in the South.

This Project Manager position will strengthen labor organizing in the South.

https://theliftfund.org/the-lift-fund-is-hiring-rolling/

The LIFT Fund is hiring! – The LIFT Fund The LIFT Fund seeks a Projects Manager to join its growing team and lead a subset of LIFT’s initiatives. The Projects Manager will work closely with all Fund staff but report directly to the Director of Strategy and Operations. The ideal candidate is someone who shares LIFT’s deep commitment to ...

Join us for our autumn equinox practice session, exploring the element of “air” and cultivating spaciousness as we set intentions for balance and the changing of the seasons on our immersive virtual platform - *not* Zoom. Free!
Friday, September 23rd at 1pm ET/12pm CT/11am MT/10am PT
Register now @ windcall.org/stayingpower

Rest is essential for survival.

To Transform Work, We Must Rest Rest is not antithetical to work. We cannot imagine work without it.