Programs

CHP

Commonweal Cancer Help Program

The Commonweal Cancer Help Program hosts week-long retreats that offer a pioneering community integrative healing model, helping participants live better and, where possible, longer lives.

CHO

CancerChoices

CancerChoices offers independent, science-backed, free resources to help people with cancer and their caregivers understand choices in integrating conventional care, complementary care, and self care.

CHL

Center for Healing and Liberation

The Center for Healing and Liberation is a home for transformative work, cultivating individual and collective liberation through a range of initiatives, events, practices, actions and community networks.

CHE

Collaborative for Health & Environment

The Collaborative for Health and Environment cultivates a learning community based on the latest, evidence-based science to share knowledge and resources, with a goal of improving individual and collective health.

CRC

Commonweal Retreat Center

The Commonweal Retreat Center is a breathtakingly beautiful retreat space at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in the Point Reyes National Seashore that hosts conferences, workshops, retreats, and gatherings.

HCG

Healing Circles Global

Healing Circles Global offers positive social support to anyone who asks for it through small circles that encourage kindness and respect, active listening, and the honoring of each person's unique path to healing.

ORA

Omega Resilience Awards

The Omega Resilience Awards program provides fellowships, research grants, and media creation to support new models of thinking, leadership, communication, and engagement in response to the challenges of the global polycrisis.

OMG

OMEGA

Omega offers projects of service in chaotic times through an extended network of close partners and collaborators.

POH

Power of Hope

Power of Hope is an arts-based summer camp where youth, ages 14-18, develop confidence, a joy for life, a passion for the natural world, and the internal motivation to follow their aspirations and live a meaningful life.

PYE

Partners for Youth Empowerment

For 25 years, Partners for Youth Empowerment has been unleashing the creative potential of young people.

NAT

Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine

Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine at Commonweal Garden is dedicated to reconnecting people to the living systems that restore us to health and wholeness.

TRP

The Resilience Project

The Resilience Project builds on four decades of work at Commonweal, exploring how we can build personal and collective resilience in our own communities and organizations.

VTS

Visual Thinking Strategies

Visual Thinking Strategies is an evidence-based arts integration model that helps students develop critical thinking and communication skills, which can then transfer to other academic subjects as well as other parts of their lives.

GOC

GoCompassion

Using a Zen framework, GoC promotes healing through meditation braiding racial justice, love, and transformation of the spirit. GoC hosts spaces for silent meditation, healing circles, and workshops. The GOC project Migration Support Network brings the work alive.

TNS

The New School

The New School offers conversations, readings, and performances with thought- and action-leaders of our time--which are then crafted into podcasts and videos that are watched or listened across our media streams.

BIO

Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center

Commonweal’s Biomonitoring Resource Center works as an international partner in empowering individual and community resilience using knowledge about the environmental chemicals that affect our health.

CAN

California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice

California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice is a community of nurses and nursing organizations partnering with NGOs, health organizations, and communities to champion environmental health and justice.

CELT

Center for Ethical Land Transition

The Center for Ethical Land Transition supports the land justice movement with education, training, and alternative land transitions rooted in BIPOC solidarity, land-centric orientation, and innovation.

DEM

The American Public Trust

The American Public Trust advances governance methods that help communities find common ground, bridge divides, and create shared paths forward on even the most contentious issues.

HCH

Healing Circles Houston

Healing Circles Houston offers positive social support to anyone who asks for it through small circles that encourage kindness and respect, active listening, and the honoring of each person's unique path to healing.

HPHP

Humane Prison Hospice Project

Humane Prison Hospice Project is transforming the way that incarcerated people die through education, advocacy, and training--so that incarcerated peers can serve as caregivers and grief companions.

HCL

Healing Circles Langley

Healing Circles Langley offers a safe place to bear witness, to deepen our capacity to live, navigate our healing, alleviate our suffering, step into our wholeness, and find meaning in both times of challenge and joy.

HCHC

Healing Circles Healthcare

Healing Circles Healthcare offers circles of support, safety, and confidentiality for all health professionals, where truth, kindness, respect, curiosity, and compassion heal.

MLA

Commonweal History Project

Our new archive project is preserving the writings and history of Commonweal as well as the work of Co-Founder Michael Lerner.

ILI

Integrative Law Institute

The Integrative Law Institute offers insights and tools for lawyers so that they have what they need to return the practice of law to this original purpose: helping people reach resolution that heals conflict.

KAC

Kids and Caregivers

Kids and Caregivers offers support, information, and community for the caregivers of children living with chronic illness and medical complexities.

OCT

Octavia Fund

The Octavia Fund resources Black women to rest, dream, and (re)imagine their lives and the future of their movements.

PILF

Platform Impact Leaders Fellowship

Platform Impact Leaders Fellowship is a restorative guided space for mid-career nonprofit and social change leaders of color to discern, articulate, and develop their emerging vision.

SEP

Somos El Poder

Somos El Poder is dedicated to improving and growing fundraising at Latinx-focused nonprofits in our nation, offering support, professional development, best practices, training, and more.

RCC

Retreat Center Collaboration

The Retreat Center Collaboration provides retreat centers across the United States and Canada with peer support, resources, training, and a container for dialogue and shared visioning as a sector.

TAP

Taproot Gathering

Drawing deep from the wells of the mystical, magical, queer, earth-based, and prophetic dimensions of Jewish tradition, Taproot offers nourishment, community, and education for emerging Jewish organizers, activists, artists, cultural workers and ritual leaders.

WMCA

West Marin Climate Action

West Marin Climate Action is a collaborative network of community members who have in common a deep caring for West Marin County, California, and concern about the impacts of climate change.

RDI

Regenerative Design Institute

The Regenerative Design Institute offers a new model of ecological education and training in regenerative design--with a vision for all people to live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth.

CDL

Center for Dying and Living

The Center for Dying and Living works to reclaim illness, disability, and death as natural parts of the human experience–and to compel the healthcare system to adapt to today’s changing needs.

CRN

Courage & Renewal Network of Northern California

The Courage & Renewal Network of Northern California is part of a global collaboration offering Circles of Trust® to audiences worldwide, working to nurture personal and professional integrity and the courage to act on it.

SOUL

project SOUL

project SOUL offers resources to ReFrame conversations and unlock innovative and creative problem solving for organizations and individuals.

HYF

Healing Yoga Foundation

The Healing Yoga Foundation supports and empowers individuals and communities by offering personalized therapeutic yoga and mindfulness-based techniques for healing and well-being.

FEM

Foundation for Embodied Medicine

The Foundation for Embodied Medicine brings the healing power of body awareness, conscious dance, and embodied presence to patients, caregivers, and medical providers.

JJP

Juvenile Justice Program

The Commonweal Juvenile Justice Program is widely regarded as one of California’s most influential advocacy organizations in the field.

MLF

Movement Liberation Fund

Movement Liberation offers participatory, integrative, multi-modality dance and movement education for people of color.

SAF

SafetyNEST Science

SafetyNEST Science offers education for the medical community and moms-to-be about the health risks associated with exposures to toxic chemicals, particularly during vulnerable periods of development.

WMR

West Marin Review

The West Marin Review is an award-winning literary and arts journal founded in the rural town of Point Reyes Station, California.

KIN

Kinship Blooms

Kinship Blooms offers refuge, inspiration, and training to visionary organizations, communities, and change networks during this intense time of transition and transformation.