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Who is PeoplesHub?

A national network of trainers, advisors, and visionaries.

Elandria Williams

Former member of Highlander Research and Education Center – PeoplesHub Director of Trainings, and PeoplesHub Trainer

Sarah van Gelder

Founder of PeoplesHub, founding editor of YES! Magazine, author, speaker – PeoplesHub’s Executive Director

Julieta Vitullo

Bilingual writer, playwright and educator – PeoplesHub’s Director of Operations

Halima Cassells

Detroit-based artist, community advocate – PeoplesHub Trainer

Jess Grady-Benson

Trainer, organizer and artist – PeoplesHub Trainer and Trainings Coordinator

Medea Benjamin

Founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange

Dante Garcia

Seattle artist, designer, organizer – PeoplesHub Trainer

Siko Bouterse

Co-founder and coordinator of Whose Knowledge? and former Director of Community Resources at the Wikimedia Foundation

Adrienne Maree Brown

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

Melissa Rosario

Puerto Rico-based facilitator, researcher and healing justice practitioner – PeoplesHub trainer

Matt Guynn

Organizer with On Earth Peace, Training for Change – PeoplesHub Trainer

Mary Joyce

Impact Design Director at Harmony Labs and Founder & Principal at Do Big Good Consulting

Adela Nieves

Founder of Homemade Healing, a neighborhood wellness center in Southwest Detroit, co-founder of Healing by Choice – PeoplesHub Trainer

Marcia Lee

Co-founder of Healing by Choice and Taproot Sanctuary in Detroit – PeoplesHubTrainer

Jeanne Rewa

Experiential trainer, facilitator, and organizer trained by Training for Change – PeoplesHub Trainer

Linda Stout

Founder and Executive Director of Spirit in Action – PeoplesHub Trainer

Mateo Nube

Co-founder of Movement Generation: Justice & Ecology Project

Starhawk

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

Akaya Windwood

President of Rockwood Institute

Peter Block

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

Heather Booth

Founder of the Midwest Academy

Puanani Burgess

Native Hawaiian trainer, consultant and poet

LeeAnn Hall

Co-director of People’s Action

Ma. Teresa “Mayté” Penman

Director of Resident Engagement for Southwest Solutions, Detroit

Meet the People at PeoplesHub

How does it work?

As a group

Choose the training that offers your group the strategy, ideas, vision, and skills you need — or take the whole series. Our training team will work closely with you to address the issues you most want to take on.

On your own

Check out PeoplesHub workshops and sign up on your own or with a friend! Get skills, inspiration, and tools you can use where you are.

Get empowered

Apply vision, ideas, tools and strategies from your PeoplesHub experience to the place where your heart lives. Gain the power and connections to get good things done.

Core Trainings

Connect online as a group

Dreaming & Scheming: Group Vision and Purpose

Tap into your creativity. Find your shared vision. Take this interactive training to get clear on your purpose and how together you’ll make change where you live.

Make It Real, Part A: Turn Dreams into Strategies

Who has power in your community? What power do you already have? Select from proven strategies to make your vision a reality.

Make it Real, Part B: Objectives, Tactics, and Timelines

Build on your vision, strategies, and community knowledge to create a plan. You’ll come out of this training with the tactics, timelines, and next steps to make it happen.

Build Leaderful Groups

Share the work, encourage new people to join your group, and avoid burnout. Value the many styles of leadership and build friendships, and your group will be stronger and more resilient.

Glorious Meetings & Decision-Making

Imagine meetings that leave you energized, focused, and connected. Build trust. Incorporate anti-racist and anti-oppression processes. Share decision making.

Living Into Conflict

Conflict is inevitable, but you can learn tools that make conflict safe. Explore how different cultures manage conflict. Reduce triggers, and build understanding and resilience.

PeoplesHub Workshops

Registration is open!
If the workshop you want to take isn’t open yet, let us know and we’ll notify you when it does.

No More $#*tty Meetings

Halima Cassells and Jeanne Rewa

No More $#*tty Meetings

Halima Cassells and Jeanne Rewa

Meetings don’t have to be oppressive! In this workshop, learn how to build trust and connection, share power, and even have fun.

Oct 3 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET

Dec 6 3pm PT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET

Get Out the Vote: Build a Winning Campaign

Linda Stout

Get Out the Vote: Build a Winning Campaign

Linda Stout

Learn how to create community and local power while mobilizing to win.

Oct 15 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

Rachel Plattus and Elandria Williams

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

Rachel Plattus and Elandria Williams

Explore your local systems of economy and governance, learn how to build local solidarity economies, and build a thriving community where you live.

Oct 29 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET

Power of the Heart

Hina Pendle

Power of the Heart

Hina Pendle

The misuse of power is toxic to our work, relationships and communities. Learn how to impact your destiny through The Power of the Heart

Nov 6 12pm PT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET

Nov 28 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET

Writing the Evolution: Rituals for Narrative Liberation

Ebony Noelle Golden

Writing the Evolution: Rituals for Narrative Liberation

Ebony Noelle Golden

Push the boundaries of your creative writing and find everyday rituals in support of personal and collective liberation.

Four sessions in December

Introduction to Community Rights

Paul Cienfuegos

Introduction to Community Rights

Paul Cienfuegos

Learn how to reestablish the right of The People to make critical decisions for themselves and create legal protections from corporate and governmental harm.

winter 2018/19

Poetics of Engagement

Ebony Noelle Golden

Poetics of Engagement

Ebony Noelle Golden

Tap into our collective knowledge with arts-centered strategies, collective power generation, creative maroonage, and the radical act of building sanctuary.

Four sessions coming up this winter

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"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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