COURSES & CERTIFICATES

For a Loving Future offers a variety of courses and certificates to support community practitioners.

CERTIFICATE

CIRCLE PROCESS

At the request of many of our partners, this updated certificate program is designed for tribal members, other indigenous folks and select allies who hold circles for their own communities and organizations. This three-part certificate program is intended to support circle practitioners to deepen their understanding, embodiment, and sharing of circle practice in ways that are accountable, appropriate, relational and reciprocal.

CERTIFICATE

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

Our Community Organizing Certificate, Comunidades Organizadas is a collaboration bringing together grassroots Indigenous and Campesin@ Central American and Mexican organizations leading change in their own ancestral territories with US, UK and European communities to exchange knowledge, build communities of solidarity, and generate resources. Partnering organizations include:

Women’s Association for the Development of Sacatepéquez (AFEDES)
Economic and Social Development of Indigenous Mexicans (DESMI)
Association Mayab Ixoqi’ Tejiendo Historia
Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO)
Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity (CCDS)

CERTIFICATE

REMATRIATING SOCIAL CHANGE

This course invites important, creative, rebellious, and visionary Indigenous women leaders to share about what they are busily constructing for the future, what is working, and how they understand the processes they are undertaking outside of the references often imposed upon them by “movements”, activists, philanthropists, and governments as legitimate, necessary, or correct.

COURSE

POETIC FUTURISM READING GROUP

In response to interest from community members, we are hosting a Poetic Futurism Reading Group based on the 12 books written by Dr. Sayra Pinto. They are downloadable for free on For The Record. This group is for those working across philanthropy, movements, government, business, academia, and civil society who are noticing cross-sector collaboration increasingly fails not at the level of goodwill, but at the level of interpretability. Without shared meaning architecture, alignment remains brittle and short-lived, especially under environmental stress. All sessions will be 90 minutes at 10 AM PST / 11 AM MST / 12 PM CST / 1 PM EST. International: 12 PM Mexico, Guatemala; 6 PM BST. Complete this interest form if you would like to join.

SESSION 1: Conditions of Rupture

Reading choices: