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!

4-Week Zoom Cohort: Saturdays, March 22, 29 and April 5, 12

If the first weeks of 2025 have left you feeling like you want to be more involved in your community to ensure racial equity and justice but unsure where to start, come join us in our 4-week Ally Building Cohort (ABC). This cohort will be co-led by Lynnette Marshall and Kaycee Pomeroy, Flourish leaders and mentors. The cohort meets once a week over Zoom on Saturdays, March 22, 29 and April 5, 12 from 8 - 9:30 am (Pacific) / 10 - 11:30 am (Central).

These allyship cohorts are led by our leadership team who have several years of experience leading and supporting justice initiatives in the communities that mean most to them. Through teaching, storytelling, and self-reflection prompts, our leaders will create safe spaces to help you examine race, racism, and its impact in your own life so that you have the tools you need to communicate your own justice journey to those around you and form a plan of action for the year ahead.

Join us for our weekly time to connect, engage and process all that is happening around us.

We'll gather each Thursday this Spring starting 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!

4-Week Zoom Cohort: Tuesdays, March 18, 25 and April 1, 8

If the first weeks of 2025 have left you feeling like you want to be more involved in your community to ensure racial equity and justice but unsure where to start, come join us in our 4-week Ally Building Cohort (ABC). This cohort will be co-led by Lynnette Marshall and Kaycee Pomeroy, Flourish leaders and mentors. The cohort meets once a week over Zoom on Tuesdays, March 18, 25 and April 1, 8 from 6 - 7:30 pm (Pacific) / 8 - 9:30 pm (Central).

These allyship cohorts are led by our leadership team who have several years of experience leading and supporting justice initiatives in the communities that mean most to them. Through teaching, storytelling, and self-reflection prompts, our leaders will create safe spaces to help you examine race, racism, and its impact in your own life so that you have the tools you need to communicate your own justice journey to those around you and form a plan of action for the year ahead.

4-Week, In Person Cohort Meeting in Pleasanton, CA

If the first weeks of 2025 have left you feeling like you want to be more involved in your community to ensure racial equity and justice but unsure where to start, come join us in our 4-week Ally Building Cohort (ABC). This cohort will be co-led by Tony DeGruy and Laura Taggart, Flourish leaders and mentors. The cohort meets in person once a week, over 4 weeks, on Thursdays, March 13, 20, 27, and April 3 from 6:30 - 8 pm (Pacific). We'll meet at the Taggart home in Pleasanton and our team will email the address to cohort members under separate cover. 

These allyship cohorts are led by our leadership team who have several years of experience leading and supporting justice initiatives in the communities that mean most to them. Through teaching, storytelling, and self-reflection prompts, our leaders will create safe spaces to help you examine race, racism, and its impact in your own life so that you have the tools you need to communicate your own justice journey to those around you and form a plan of action for the year ahead.

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 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!

Every second Saturday this Winter we'll gather to connect and share about raising and teaching justice-minded children of all ages. We welcome those new to Flourish, and hope to see you on Zoom with your family and friends. We'll hear stories and learn together, and we'll share a few engaging activities for younger children who we hope will join us! Mark your calendars, and spread the word! 

Join us for our weekly time to connect, engage and process all that is happening around us.

We'll gather each Thursday this Spring starting March 6th 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 issues in our faith communities

• Week 4: Sticky Conversations - Share and learn from difficult or successful conversations about race, with optional role-playing opportunities.

After you submit you'll get the zoom link in the email confirmation which is the same link each time!

Every second Saturday this Winter we'll gather to connect and share about raising and teaching justice-minded children of all ages. We welcome those new to Flourish, and hope to see you on Zoom with your family and friends. We'll hear stories and learn together, and we'll share a few engaging activities for younger children who we hope will join us! Mark your calendars, and spread the word! 

Every third Thursday this Winter, we'll gather to talk about complex conversations around race. We even practice and role-play to help us get better!  If you’re brand new to Flourish, you are most welcome. If you’ve been with us for a while, you are also welcome to join us! 

Every third Thursday this Winter, we'll gather to talk about complex conversations around race. We even practice and role-play to help us get better!  If you’re brand new to Flourish, you are most welcome. If you’ve been with us for a while, you are also welcome to join us! 

Every third Thursday this Fall, we'll gather to talk about complex conversations around race. We even practice and role-play to help us get better!  If you’re brand new to Flourish, you are most welcome. If you’ve been with us for a while, you are also welcome to join us! 

Flourish Faith & Justice invites you to a special Advent Lectio Divina. 

Lectio Divina (or, "Divine Reading") dates back to the early centuries of the Christian Church and offers us the opportunity to gain new spiritual insights as we consider a Biblical passage and move from reading to meditation to contemplation to prayer together. On December 18th, we'll consider Luke 3:7-16 and look at this reading from a justice perspective. 

This one-time Zoom session will be presented by Sharon Hensley, a Flourish Faith & Justice leader and regular cohort leader in our community.     

This Advent, you are invited to practice an ancient form of Christian Prayer known as Visio Divina. Translated as “sacred seeing,” Visio Divina is a practice where we allow our hearts and imaginations to enter into a sacred image, in silence, to see what God might have to say to us. The intent is to gaze upon images of the Holy Family in the skin tones of who they really were, and are in our modern times. This Zoom session is presented by Sharon Bennett, a trained Spiritual Director and Flourish Collective member.

Join us on Wednesday December 4th 5PM PT/ 8PM ET

Every third Thursday this Fall, we'll gather to talk about complex conversations around race. We even practice and role-play to help us get better! If you’re brand new to Flourish, you are most welcome. If you’ve been with us for a while, you are also welcome to join us!

Join us for our November Book Club Discussion of Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper. As the fall season invites us to consider the natural world, we wanted to choose a community read that beckons us outside.

In Better Living Through Birding, Christian Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life leading up to the now-infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today.

Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper's story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days at Marvel Comics introducing the first gay storylines to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Himalayas.

We're hosting two separate bookclubs on November 19th: one on Zoom and one live in Danville, CA for those who live in the East Bay. Come join us at the location that works for you!

Every third Thursday this Fall, we'll gather to talk about complex conversations around race. We even practice and role-play to help us get better! If you’re brand new to Flourish, you are most welcome. If you’ve been with us for a while, you are also welcome to join us!

Howard Thurman was a preacher and civil rights advocate who believed in non-violent activism through the building of community. Join us for our 5-week book cohort as we read through Howard Thurman's 1949 classic, Jesus and the Disinherited, and gather to talk poverty, racism and racial segregation, and spiritual renewal as we examine connections between the life of Jesus and the experiences of African Americans. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr often carried a copy of Jesus and the Disinherited with him; pick up your own copy and join us this fall.

Event Details
Title: Jesus and the Disinherited Fall Book Cohort, hosted by Faith & Justice
Dates: 5-week Wednesday book cohort, runs 10/2 - 10/30/24
Time & Location: 4:30 - 5:45 pm (PT) / 7:30 - 8:45 pm (ET) ,via Zoom
Leaders: Tony DeGruy & Sharon Hensley
Audience: This book cohort is ideal Faith & Justice members with some racial justice knowledge and experience.

We encourage you to purchase the book at our Bookshop page - Jesus and the Disinherited, by Howard Thurman

Are you frustrated, exhausted, or hurt by current political dialogue that doesn’t seem to reflect your faith or your pursuit of justice? Come join our Flourish Faith & Justice team as they host author and public theologian Curtis Chang in conversation about his new book, The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics, that reframes political identity away from specific political positions and toward a political identity reflective of one’s faith, outside of partisan divide. Curtis will help us learn how to engage with others across political differences and how to build relationships with one another before moving into political discussion.

This event will be held on Zoom with a special option for those in the East Bay to meet together for an in-person “watch party.” We’ll be providing a free copy of The After Party to those who join us for the evening so that you can continue this learning journey after the event.

Every third Thursday this Fall, we'll gather to talk about complex conversations around race We even practice and role-play to help us get better! If you’re brand new to Flourish, you are most welcome. If you’ve been with us for a while, you are also welcome to join us!

Calling all voters! Are you feeling anxious about the upcoming election season or overwhelmed by your ballot? Are you looking for ways to invite friends and neighbors into productive, thoughtful conversations about what's on your local, state and national ballot?

Come join our panel of experts + Flourish for a timely, practical discussion of how to Elevate Your Vote for social and racial justice in your own community and across the nation.

We'll share tips, tools, and resources to examine each ballot item and choose a candidate or position that reflects your priority for justice. We'll also talk about how to support voting efforts in your community and share stories of meaningful ways to get involved.

Afterwards, stick around for our Backstage Pass to discuss what you learned and share thoughts with others in the group!

Tickets to our learning events are free.  However, please understand creating and running learning events like this costs us approximatively $50 per person.  We invite you to contribute whatever you can to help make this possible for everyone.  We never want money to be a hindrance to anyone's learning so this is a suggested donation.

Come join us on August 15th for our summer book club as we discuss Lorraine Hansberry's classic, A Raisin in the Sun, an  award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago that connected profoundly with Black America.We're excited to revisit this well-known classic in light of our learning and discussions this year. "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." We look forward to examining themes in the book which we observe today and invite you to join us.

We'll host Zoom and an in-person meeting option in the East Bay, so please Register at the appropriate button.

Come on by our virtual Pop-In the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month where we connect and engage.  On the first Thursday we connect on a relevant topic and on the third Thursday, we do a bit of prep & practice of having real life conversations on topics related to race and equity.  Join us!

Note: No Pop-In August 15th - we’ll be hosting our Summer Book Club instead!

Come on by our virtual Pop-In the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month where we connect and engage.  On the first Thursday we connect on a relevant topic and on the third Thursday, we do a bit of prep & practice of having real life conversations on topics related to race and equity.  Join us!

Come on by our virtual Pop-In the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month where we connect and engage.  On the first Thursday we connect on a relevant topic and on the third Thursday, we do a bit of prep & practice of having real life conversations on topics related to race and equity.  Join us!

Come on by our virtual Pop-In the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month where we connect and engage.  On the first Thursday we connect on a relevant topic and on the third Thursday, we do a bit of prep & practice of having real life conversations on topics related to race and equity.  Join us!

Join us on Tuesday, May 21st, 5:00 PDT, as we gather with Traci Huahn, author of Mamie Tape Fights to go to School. In this inspiring story, young readers will follow 8-year-old Chinese American changemaker Mamie Tape’s brave steps as she fights to attend school in San Francisco in the 1880s, and discover the poignant history of her California Supreme Court case Tape v. Hurley. You can pre-order the book now through the Flourish Bookshop and receive a free bookplate signed by Traci by filling out this form.

Come on by our virtual Pop-In the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month where we connect and engage.  On the first Thursday we connect on a relevant topic and on the third Thursday, we do a bit of prep & practice of having real life conversations on topics related to race and equity.  Join us!