Event Spotlight
Annual Gathering
October 23-24
Berkeley, CA
Join us for a weekend of learning, connection, & hope at our 5th annual gathering!
Flourish Impact Partner and Arrabon Founder, David Bailey will be our main speaker as he invites us to find hope in community. Along the way, we'll also hear from our local Impact Partners, engage in thoughtful and fun breakout sessions tailored to meet your learning needs, and share great meals together.
Join us for a weekend of learning, connection, & hope at our 5th annual gathering!
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Flourish Gathering 2026
A time for community, learning and action!
We are excitedly planning all the details and will share more as they come.
A Pair of Wings: Book Club & Author Talk with Carole Hopson
Join The Flourish Collective for a conversation with author Carole Hopson about her debut novel, A Pair of Wings — a richly imagined story inspired by the true life of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot's license. Coleman's journey from Texas cotton fields to the skies of France, where she trained after being turned away in the U.S., is a story of determination, migration, and the search for freedom against the backdrop of Jim Crow-era America. Hopson, herself a Boeing 737 captain who considers Coleman a personal trailblazer, brings both a pilot's insight and a novelist's craft to this celebration of Bessie's legacy. Come for the story, stay for the conversation with the woman who lived it forward.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
Keeper of Lost Children: Book Club & Author Talk with Sadeqa Johnson
New York Times bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson joins The Flourish Collective to discuss her latest novel, Keeper of Lost Children. Set in the years following World War II, the story follows an American officer's wife in occupied Germany who is moved to help find homes for the mixed-race children of German mothers and Black American GIs — a decision whose ripple effects reach across decades and continents, touching a soldier who falls in love in Germany and, years later, a young woman in 1960s Maryland uncovering a hidden piece of her own identity. Woven together, these three lives explore how one woman's vision can shape generations, and how love — familial, parental, forbidden, even love of self — can transcend it all. Come ready for rich conversation about history, identity, and belonging with the author herself.
The Stories We're Told: Race and Representation in Media
Flourish Foundations events help us understand how — and where — race and racism show up in the systems that shape our lives. This installment turns to the media: the news we read, the shows we watch, the stories we're handed about who we are and who we should be.
Join us for a panel conversation exploring how race and representation play out across the media landscape — from the narratives that get centered to the ones left out, and what it means to read, watch, and listen with a more critical eye. Panelists will be announced soon.
This is a space to learn, ask questions, and think together about the stories we're told — and the ones we're ready to tell differently.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
We The Voters
Getting Ready for the 2026 Midterms
Three community conversations on civic power, collaborative engagement, and showing up — together.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
We The Voters
Getting Ready for the 2026 Midterms
Three community conversations on civic power, collaborative engagement, and showing up — together.
We The Voters
Getting Ready for the 2026 Midterms
Three community conversations on civic power, collaborative engagement, and showing up — together.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
August 20th -Who Tells Your Story
Your Story Matters
Who — a teacher, mentor, neighbor, family member — has shaped how you think about racial equity and justice the most?
Come to the Flourish Hub ready to share this story from your own life. You won't need a polished version — just one person and one moment. We'll make space for a few of these stories in conversation together.
Faith & Justice Summer Book Club
In “Tears of Things” Richard Rohr offers a wholehearted and hope-filled model for the divided world today, grounded in the timeless wisdom of the Hebrew prophets. Join us for our summer Faith and Justice book club to see how this wisdom can help us in these challenging times.
Flourish Hub - Community, Conversation & Connection
Join our Flourish Hub — Community, Conversation & Connection
Now twice a month, 1st & 3rd Thursdays 5PM PT/8PM ET
1st Thursdays — Let's Talk About It - A look at what's in the news through a racial justice and equity lens. Topic shared ahead of time.
3rd Thursdays — Who Tells Your Story? - A space for courageous conversations, built around stories. We'll give you a prompt ahead of time on something from your own lived experience to come share. No experience or polish needed.
August 6th - Let’s Talk About it:
We're talking about the heartbreaking story of Nolan Wells from the perspective of a Black Momma and her lived experience of being a parent to her teenage son and how fellow parents can be better allies to families of color.
Before we meet: please read Kimberly Seals Allen's account on her Instagram or we’ve got screenshots here in this Google folder
Flourish friend, Traci Huahn will share how she's talking with her children, as Asian Americans, about caring well for their Black friends.
Come ready to learn, listen, and think about how to be a better ally.
The Northern California Film & Media Summit
The Flourish Collective is proud to be the key sponsor of the Northern California Film & Media Summit, taking place Saturday, June 27 in Livermore, CA.
The Summit is a full-day creative and professional development event designed to expand access, visibility, and career pathways for emerging filmmakers, media professionals, and creatives from diverse and historically underrepresented backgrounds.
The day includes hands-on workshops in directing, producing, and cinematography; industry panels with professionals whose credits span Skywalker Sound, Pixar, Netflix, Disney, Marvel, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; a curated short film showcase highlighting work by filmmakers of color; and dedicated networking time with industry partners, local organizations, and fellow creatives.
For Northern California, this event is an opportunity for residents to engage with diverse stories, meet working professionals, and be part of a broader conversation about art, media, representation, and creative workforce development.
For more information and to register, visit Eventbrite.
Flourish Meet-Up
Join us for our weekly time to connect, engage and process all that is happening around us.
We'll gather each Thursday this Spring at 4:30PM PT/ 7:30ET via zoom.
We'll follow this format for our discussion topics each week:
Week 1: Hot Topics - Current conversations and trending topics
Week 2: Live It Out! - Actionable steps to combat racism right where we can
Week 3: Faith & Justice - Exploring important justice issues in our faith communities
Week 4: Sticky Conversations - Share and learn from difficult or successful conversations about race, with optional role-playing opportunities.
Week 5: Film and Culture discussion group (chosen films/documentaries will be shared in advance)
After you submit you'll get the zoom link in the email confirmation which is the same link each time!
Flourish Meet-Up
Join us for our weekly time to connect, engage and process all that is happening around us.
We'll gather each Thursday this Spring at 4:30PM PT/ 7:30ET via zoom.
We'll follow this format for our discussion topics each week:
Week 1: Hot Topics - Current conversations and trending topics
Week 2: Live It Out! - Actionable steps to combat racism right where we can
Week 3: Faith & Justice - Exploring important justice issues in our faith communities
Week 4: Sticky Conversations - Share and learn from difficult or successful conversations about race, with optional role-playing opportunities.
Week 5: Film and Culture discussion group (chosen films/documentaries will be shared in advance)
After you submit you'll get the zoom link in the email confirmation which is the same link each time!
Summer Book Club
Before GPS, Black motorists mapped their own roads to freedom using the Green Book. Join us for our summer book club to explore the historic and modern day impact of the Green Book in Candacy Taylor's fascinating book, Overground Railroad
Flourish Meet-Up
Join us for our weekly time to connect, engage and process all that is happening around us.
We'll gather each Thursday this Spring at 4:30PM PT/ 7:30ET via zoom.
We'll follow this format for our discussion topics each week:
Week 1: Hot Topics - Current conversations and trending topics
Week 2: Live It Out! - Actionable steps to combat racism right where we can
Week 3: Faith & Justice - Exploring important justice issues in our faith communities
Week 4: Sticky Conversations - Share and learn from difficult or successful conversations about race, with optional role-playing opportunities.
Week 5: Film and Culture discussion group (chosen films/documentaries will be shared in advance)
After you submit you'll get the zoom link in the email confirmation which is the same link each time!
Flourish Meet-Up
Join us for our weekly time to connect, engage and process all that is happening around us.
We'll gather each Thursday this Spring at 4:30PM PT/ 7:30ET via zoom.
We'll follow this format for our discussion topics each week:
Week 1: Hot Topics - Current conversations and trending topics
Week 2: Live It Out! - Actionable steps to combat racism right where we can
Week 3: Faith & Justice - Exploring important justice issues in our faith communities
Week 4: Sticky Conversations - Share and learn from difficult or successful conversations about race, with optional role-playing opportunities.
Week 5: Film and Culture discussion group (chosen films/documentaries will be shared in advance)
After you submit you'll get the zoom link in the email confirmation which is the same link each time!