Join us on July 10 for this special daylong workshop with our core team member Vanessa Rochelle Lewis, and experience some of the Creating Freedom Movements magic first-hand!

Our Mission

Creating Freedom Movements cultivates holistic, healing-centered, visionary leaders while nurturing justice & joy projects through an immersive year-long cohort process. Join us!

Cultivate Your Wild ​​Freedom Dreams

Workshop Areas

Social Movement
​History & Analysis
We will develop an understanding of how current realities of injustice, exploitation and oppression are created and maintained. We will also study past and present social movements to learn about how we can create change.
Healing Practices
We will cultivate individual and collective habits that can sustain us through the challenges of social justice work and life itself. These practices will help us stay grounded and connected as we work with each other across differences, priorities, and needs.
The Arts
​We will learn about the role of the arts in social change and develop our creative and expressive capacities through various arts workshops. This area will also expand our imaginations, empathy, and emotional resilience.
Practical Skills
​We will develop practical skills that can help us divest from oppressive institutions and build alternative ones. Workshops include community organizing, growing our own food, how to fund our justice work, nonviolent direct action and much more.

Facilitators

Creating Freedom Movements works in collaboration with over 40 of the Bay Area's most respected grassroots organizations and social-justice activists. 
I cannot express my gratitude enough for our CFM community, especially at this time. Not only does it feel good to see people’s faces on a weekly basis, but knowing that I can show up authentically (in my varying capacities while navigating the micro- and macro-impacts of medical and socio-racial crisis). CFM makes room for that. This is what love looks like. And my life will never be the same! This curriculum is transformative and CFM are forever my beloved community.

​–Sierra, 2020 Cohort

Is Creating Freedom Movements For Me?

Do you want to expand your skill-sets and deepen relationships with folks who share visions for Racial, Gender, Disability, Economic, & Transformative Justice?

Help Us Grow

We are committed to keeping this program accessible to all, and to paying the artists, educators and activists who work with us a living wage. To avoid mission drift and keep building a movement of people invested in this work, our fundraising philosophy prioritizes cultivating individual donors. 
Creating Freedom Movements nurtures visionary grassroots leaders who build beloved community, cross-issue solidarity and infrastructures of justice & joy. We heal people and the planet by moving from cultures of separation & domination to cultures of connection & reciprocity.