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The Social Change Sanctuary

TURNING A POOL OF TEARS INTO A SEA OF SOCIAL CHANGE

For thousands of years, people have been mourning in collectives with rituals, prayers and songs.

Your not supposed to mourn alone.

In the face of so much crisis and catastrophe, coming together to grieve can help us move through traumatic experiences, sustain our solidarity and create social change.

If you’re looking for a safe space to grieve & mourn, to find hope in hardship...

Join us at the Social Change Sanctuary.

Upcoming Events

Good Mourning

A weekly ritual arts practice for collectively witnessing the news and moving through the grief together.

Facilitated by

Eva Orbuch & Alison Avigyail Ramer

Fridays

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST

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Our Story

Together with spiritual communities, activists, artists and movement partners, we are co-creating grief rituals to hold our heartbreak, rooted in collective healing and resilience.

Since October 7th over 500 people of multiple faiths and nationalities have joined us for collective mourning rituals and workshops.

  • The grief feels constant, but in these rituals, it transforms into a shared burden, one that we all carry together.

  • I've been deep in sorrow. Doom scrolling as I watched the genocide unfold. But the sanctuary helped me pause and transform the pain.

  • Transforming grief into the resilience needed for social change is a communal process.

  • Grief has a million faces, voices, and we need them all to heal.

Our Values

  • Working to create a just, equal and free world for all in recognition of the interconnected web of life.

  • Respect for diverse religious, spiritual, humanist and earth-centered traditions.

  • Practicing co-resistance in struggles for racial, indigenous, and gender justice.

  • Collectively opposing racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism

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