The Center for Creative Community (C3) is an umbrella for a number of Commonweal projects that explore the intersection of dialogue, cognition, creativity, and community. Through work in different communities, C3 seeks to deepen our exploration of complex issues in our world—issues that most Commonweal programs confront daily. C3 programs include the Power of Hope Youth Camp, the Creative Facilitation Training Series, Commonweal’s Fall Gathering, the Ecology of Awakening program, and the Resilience Is Our Community gatherings.
Power of Hope Youth Camp: The Power of Hope summer camp at Commonweal builds a new way of being for youth 14-18 years old—breaking down barriers between difference, encouraging creativity, developing leadership, and teaching how to listen to each other—skills and new ways of being in community that every teenager will take home with them.
Creative Facilitation Training Series: A powerful training series for anyone who leads groups: youth workers, teachers, facilitators, community and business leaders, artists, or organizers, this facilitation series helps build and harness the incredible power of creativity to transform programs, classrooms, or workplaces.
Commonweal Fall Gathering: The Gatherings are invitational leadership conferences imbued with a heartfelt sense of community, spirit, and service. The first three Gatherings at Commonweal were extraordinary successful, bringing together diverse thought and action leaders in a convergence of creativity, reflection, music, movement, and joy. The Fall Gathering builds on the method and tradition created by Rick Ingrasci and Peggy Taylor over 25 years of Summer Gatherings at Hollyhock Conference Center on Cortes Island in British Columbia. A few years ago they added a Winter Gathering at the Whidbey Institute on Whidbey Island north of Seattle, where they live.
Taproot Gathering: The Taproot Gathering is an immersive week of Jewish study, embodied practice, ritual, and heartful discussion designed for activists, artists, and changemakers who wish to tap into their Jewish background as a source of resonance, sustenance, and grounding. Each 5-day retreat engages text study, movement, music and more to create a sacred learning experience for participants to dip into and emerge refreshed, nourished, and supported.
