COMMONWEAL

RESILIENCE:Commonweals Resilience program is an umbrella that includes both The Resilience Project and Omega. The Resilience Project (TRP) builds on four decades of work at Commonweal on healing ourselves and healing the earth. TRP focuses on the polycrisismore than two dozen environmental and social stressors that have created a perfect storm of human and biosphere threats. TRP goals: Empower people, projects & practices to meet the Global Challenge; welcome diverse views across the global spectrum; encourage respectful dialogues across regions & cultures; inspire creative responses to the polycrisis. Stanley Wu serves as director. Omega incubates new initiatives for living in and through the global polycrisis. Omegas goal is to help build the nascent field of polycrisis research and action. This includes: (1) to map the best thinking on the polycrisis, (2) to identify the global network of those working toward creative solutions, (3) to identify the community of those who can work together to strengthen resilience, and (4) to identify and support specific projects with special value added. Omegas initiatives include: The Omega Collaborative, a steadily growing working group of partners around the world committed to a better future through a focus on systemic risk, interconnected and intersecting stressors, complexity, equity, governance, and the full range of issues threatening civilization; and The Omega Resilience Awards (ORA), which provides fellowships, research grants, and media creation to support new models of thinking, leadership, communication, and engagement in response to the challenges of the global polycrisis. Michael Lerner serves as director. (omega.ngo)

Center for Healing and Liberation:Launched in 2021, the Center for Healing and Liberation is a home for transformative work. Within a community of belonging, the Center cultivates our individual and collective liberation through a range of initiatives, events, practices, actions and community networks. We are all related, and our futures are connected. To dismantle oppressive systems and transform culture, we need analysis and strategy, love and resilience, tools and skills, healing community, and a clear vision of a sustainable human story. The Center offers refuge, resources, and nourishment for change makers. The Centers initiatives serve those who are dedicated to taking action for racial, gender, environmental, and economic justice. The Center has a strong focus on supporting Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). This includes programs built around healing practices and explorations that offer clarity, discovery, release and deep rest. Sometimes it is helpful to cultivate healing within similar-identity cohorts while at the same time holding the collective. Victoria Santos serves as the director. (centerforhealingandliberation.com)