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Skills, community, and resilience — for a local revolution.

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Who is PeoplesHub?

A national network of trainers, advisors, and visionaries.

Adrienne Maree Brown

Adrienne Maree Brown

Author of Emergent Strategy, facilitator, pleasure activist, coach, healer, and doula.

Elandria Williams

Elandria Williams

Popular education at Highlander, Beautiful Solutions, Movement for Black Lives

Sarah van Gelder

Sarah van Gelder

Founder of PeoplesHub, founding editor, YES! Magazine, author, speaker

Melissa Rosario

Melissa Rosario

Puerto Rico-based facilitator, researcher, and community leader

Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin

Siko Bouterse

Siko Bouterse

Halima Cassells

Halima Cassells

Matt Guynn

Matt Guynn

Dante Garcia

Dante Garcia

Mary Joyce

Mary Joyce

Adela Nieves

Adela Nieves

Marcia Lee

Marcia Lee

Jeanne Rewa

Jeanne Rewa

Mateo Nube

Mateo Nube

Linda Stout

Linda Stout

Founder and Executive Director of the Piedmont Peace Project

Starhawk

Starhawk

Author, activist, and co-founder of Alliance of Community Trainers

Ma. Teresa “Mayté” Penman

Ma. Teresa “Mayté” Penman

Director of Resident Engagement for Southwest Solutions, Detroit

Jess Grady-Benson

Jess Grady-Benson

Trainer, organizer, and artist

Heather Booth

Heather Booth

Founder of the Midwest Academy

Puanani Burgess

Puanani Burgess

Native Hawaiian trainer, consultant, and poet

LeeAnn Hall

LeeAnn Hall

Co-director of People’s Action

Akaya Windwood

Akaya Windwood

President of Rockwood Institute

Peter Block

Peter Block

Consultant and author of “Community: The Structure of Belonging”

Meet the team

How does it work?

Connect with us

Tell us your story and your goals, and we’ll hook you up with one of our extraordinary trainers.

Co-host a workshop

Meet up with one of our trainers via a live video link. Gather around a laptop or monitor with room to move and interact.

Get empowered

Learn skills and tools. Clarify your vision. Deepen connections where you live. Get power.

What will you learn?

Join us during the start-up phase and help PeoplesHub grow! Sign up for our first course.

Dreaming and SchemingGroup vision, purpose, and goals

Dreaming and Scheming

Group vision, purpose, and goals

2.5 Hours | Just and Thriving Groups | Available beginning Oct. 22

Tap into the creativity of your group. Get on the same page about your vision, purpose, and goals, and what you can do together to make change where you live.

A PeoplesHub trainer will meet you online. Come prepared to share your stories and ideas, to find your purpose, and define your next steps.

Sample Courses

What would you like to learn? These workshops and others are in development. Send your ideas here.

<div id="tan">Reaching Beyond Divides</div>

Respectful and effective ways to reach out to others who are of a different race, class, generation, sexual orientation, or political persuasion. How to become a life-long learner about the other people in your community, their diverse histories, cultures, life experiences. Understanding power dynamics. Facilitation skills that draw out all the voices, allow strong views and disagreements without the lasting divides of a blow up.

Reaching Beyond Divides
<div id="brightblue">Finding and Engaging Others</div>

How do you recruit others where you live, and keep them engaged? How to make community work a celebration, rewarding, meaningful, and deepen a sense of community.

Finding and Engaging Others
<div id="red">Conflict Resolution</div>

How to diffuse conflicts among would-be collaborators, deal with substantive differences, find agreement or consensus, or to at least move forward.

Conflict Resolution
<div id="green">Elections and Building Local Power</div>

How progressive election campaigns can both win seats and help build ongoing local power. Holding elected officials accountable.

Elections and Building Local Power
<div id="darkblue">Participatory Research</div>

How to get access to information from government and corporations. Find out what toxins are in your water, food, soil, or air. Access expertise at local schools or universities. Knowledge is power. Here’s how to get it.

Participatory Research
<div id="tan">Create a Cooperative Economy</div>

If you don’t like Amazon, Wells Fargo, and Monsanto, here’s how to create alternatives. How to build cooperatives, support existing local businesses, start sharing networks, swaps, credit unions, and other infrastructure of a new economy.

Create a Cooperative Economy
<div id="brightblue">Decolonize Yourself</div>

Find out where you are oppressed by others’ assumptions about who you are, and where you are participating in oppressing yourself (internalized oppression) or others. Begin liberating yourself. Understand power and privilege, and learn to be an effective ally.

Decolonize Yourself
<div id="red">Oppositional Nonviolence</div>

How to take on the police, a recalcitrant politician, or a bank executive. How to have an impact without creating harm.

Oppositional Nonviolence
<div id="green">Resilience in the Face of Catastrophe</div>

What if the “big one” hits (whether that’s earthquake, wildfire, or economic collapse). What should your community do now to prepare? And what if it is a slow-moving crisis, like climate change, unemployment, or foreclosures? How to build resilience for whatever hardships might come.

Resilience in the Face of Catastrophe
<div id="darkblue">Grassroots Fundraising</div>

How to get the resources you need from within your own community and from your broader networks. Online tools, fundraising approaches, in-kind contributions.

Grassroots Fundraising
<div id="tan">Crossing Generations</div>

For the over-40 crowd, how do you best hear what young people need, engage them, guide them, and be guided by them? For those under 40, how do you best hear what older people need, engage them, guide them, and be guided by them? How to make space for both to lead and contribute.

Crossing Generations
<div id="brightblue">Water</div>

How to find out where your water comes from, how pure it is, and how to protect it from over-use or pollution and how to prevent it from being taken away by a corporation. Ideas for rain gardens, water harvesting, xeriscaping, etc.

Water
<div id="red">Community-Based IT</div>

What platforms should you use to organize locally? Pros and cons of various social media platforms, listserv platforms, text, real time conversations, etc.

Community-Based IT
<div id="green">Self Care, Community Care</div>

We can get so wrapped up in making change, that we neglect our own well being. How to bring soulfulness, spirit, celebration, and meaning into your work. Supporting self-care via mindfulness, circle processes, individual and team retreats, and supporting one another in finding a balanced way of life.

Self Care, Community Care
<div id="darkblue">Leadership for Beginners</div>

How to have joy-filled meetings that access the creativity and wisdom of participants, unleash energy, and galvanize the power to get stuff done; tools for visioning the future, clarifying goals, engaging people with diverse backgrounds and talents, resolving differences, evaluating past efforts, overcoming set backs.

Leadership for Beginners

“Our goal is to create a beloved community ...”

— Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In this moment of upheaval, the PeoplesHub will provide new activists with the political grounding and skills to advance our movement for justice."

— LeeAnn Hall,
co-director, People’s Action

“We need a way to nationally weave these quiet revolutionary efforts together and build all of our capacities to reclaim our humanity and our democracy. PeoplesHub has the intention, the talent and the will to do this.”

- Peter Block, consultant and author of
Community: The Structure of Belonging

“The current schisms and divides in the country are a deep sickness, and PeoplesHub is medicine for what is ailing us.”

— Akaya Windwood, President of Rockwood Institute

“This is an extraordinary time. So many want to take action, make a difference and be effective. This training can provide support, community, and strategic direction for how to have impact.”

— Heather Booth, founder of the Midwest Academy

“At the core of great movements is ALOHA (love); it is important that we remember and practice this as we develop the PeoplesHub.”

- Puanani Burgess, Native Hawaiian
trainer, consultant, and poet

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