Want to make a positive change in your community? Join the Brown Hope Action Team!

The Action Team meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, from 6:30–8:30pm on Zoom. Our monthly meetings are an opportunity to meet with fellow neighbors and brainstorm on collaborative racial justice projects together.

The Action Team builds support for Brown Hope’s mission of racial healing through volunteering and grassroots activism. The Action Team consists of three Action Groups which anyone is welcome to plug into:

* **Solidarity Squad:** a group of neighbors helping neighbors by distributing mutual aid resources in a grassroots, relationship-based network.

* **Healing & Spirituality:** this group facilitates learning spaces and engaging activities related to racial trauma and healing. 

* **Community Social Events:** this group enthusiastically builds community by creating inclusive gatherings centered around peace, love, and joy.

Got questions? Please contact: [cameron@brownhope.org](mailto:cameron@brownhope.org).

[RSVP Here](https://forms.gle/LA8YggGALVriJB2V6) 


Action Team Monthly Meeting

Brown Hope’s Monthly Book Club happens every first Thursday of the month on Zoom from 7-8:30pm. Our Monthly Book Club is organized by our Healing & Spirituality Action Group, and is a multiracial space– all races, backgrounds, and identities are welcome to participate. Together, we’ll create a supportive space to process, connect, and grow in community.

The first book we’re discussing is My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem. This powerful book explores how racism lives in the body and offers practices for healing, resilience, and collective liberation—through a step-by-step process grounded in neuroscience and somatic healing methods.

While the book focuses on the impact of racialized trauma on Black bodies, the practices and insights can be applied across communities, including Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples, who are all navigating systemic oppression and racial violence. 

Meets: First Thursday of each month, 7–8:30pm PST.[ Sign up here to receive the meeting link.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK-AYYa2gdaBQDjTYoSNeBgUZGxJ8Zmf54rKBzytFFjExOlA/viewform)

Pace: Two chapters per month

Discussion Schedule:
* Feb 5 - chapters 8 & 9
* Mar 5 - chapters 10 & 11
* Apr 2 - chapters 12 & 13
* May 7 - chapters 14 & 15
* Jun 4 - chapters 16 & 17
* Jul 2 - chapters 18 & 19
* Aug 6 - chapters 20 & 21
* Sep 3 - chapters 22 & 23
* Oct 8 - chapter 24

Our book club is open to the public, feel free to share this invite with anyone who may be interested. If you have any questions, please contact[ healingaction@brownhope.org](mailto:healingaction@brownhope.org).


Brown Hope Monthly Book Club

Brown Hope is hosting a Gather: an Interdependence Day Potluck, an invitation to build community in the spirit of interdependence and collective resilience.

Gather with us to share an intimate moment of giving and receiving care, respect, and love. Join us in nourishing our bodies and souls with a shared meal, and you’re encouraged to bring your favorite dish! There will be vegan and gluten free options.

We’ll have interactive icebreaker activities to help people meet and socialize. Experienced song circle facilitators will lead us in songs and drumming that honor our values of freedom, justice, healing, and liberation.

Gather is also an opportunity to shine a light on the truth about this nation’s long history of injustice. July 4th is a day that carries a lot of traumatic the United States. The holiday often glazes over the slavery, colonialism, and genocide that this nation was built upon, and the present day inequities that persist due to the lack of accountability and resolution. 

Brown Hope Founder and CEO, cameron whitten, will perform a live reenactment of the 1852 speech *“What to the Slave is Your 4th of July?”* by civil rights leader Frederick Douglass.

We’ll have a facilitated group dialogue after the speech and brainstorm ideas about how to increase our collective power and foster a more interdependent Portland community that’s actively working towards racial justice.

Gather is free and open to the public. We welcome people of all racial backgrounds, as well as uplifting Black, Brown, and Indigenous leadership on our journey towards collective liberation.


Gather: an Interdependence Day Potluck

**Mindful Medicine happens every third Wednesday of the month on Zoom from 7-8:15pm.** ([RSVP Here)](https://brownhope-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/PuSNXQgrSGe8b-lbaf_cfQ)

What we offer with Mindful Medicine is a culturally informed meditation and healing experience, open to anyone who is seeking to participate in the liberatory power of collective healing. If the current state of the world is causing you to feel exhausted and depleted— we offer this space as a way to be nourished, energized, and supported.

**There are four intentionally designed parts to Mindful Medicine:**
* Love Lessons, a quick teaching on various social justice related topics.
* Guided Meditation, a facilitator will lead us in gentle breathwork, inner awareness, and positive affirmations to cultivate feelings of peace, resilience, and trust.
* Writing Reflection, an opportunity to get our thoughts and feelings down onto paper before the group discussion.
* Group Discussion, a peer centered space to process, converse, and integrate our collective mindful experience.
  
We invite you to come to Mindful Medicine as your full authentic selves and share your lived experiences with radical vulnerability. We’ll have community guidelines with trained facilitators to ensure all voices have an opportunity to be heard and that the experiences of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people will be valued and respected.

Mindful Medicine is a multiracial space— **all races, backgrounds, and identities are welcome.** Let’s build community and strengthen our healing movement!

**#moralmeditation #wehealwithhope**


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