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.

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.

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.

CNS

Commonweal New School

Commonweal New School is Commonweal’s learning community and podcast, offering conversations, workshops, and other events in areas we champion: finding meaning, growing resilience, advocating for justice, and stewarding the natural world.

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.

ILALI

Innovative Learning and Living Institute

The Innovative Learning and Living Institute supports the resilience and transformation of communities with programs that help to embody knowledge, bridge cultural worldviews, and promote collective healing in service of our future.

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.

OCT

Octavia Fund

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

PYE

Partners for Youth Empowerment

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

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.

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.

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.

CoTA

Collaborations: Teachers & Artists

CoTA employs creative strategies that encourage teachers to produce arts-integrated lessons. Through in-school residencies, professional development workshops, and subject-specific teacher institutes, CoTA partners with teachers to discover the importance of arts in the classroom

MAE

Ma Earth

Ma Earth shares ideas and builds tools for planetary health and regeneration—combining education with grants funding to resource those directly caring for land and life.

ETC

Emergency Training Collective

Emergency Training Collective expands access to practical, hands-on disaster preparedness training for community leaders, nonprofits, and mutual aid groups—providing the skills and confidence to prepare for and navigate a wide range of emergencies and disasters.

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.

SYT

Syntropy

Syntropy asks the question “What makes and keeps us healthy?” instead of “what makes us ill?”--offering a children’s gardening program and mentoring youth “community scientists” to help degrade toxins found in the soil.

KAC

Kids and Caregivers

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

COM

Communitas

Communitas offers integrative medicine education and experiences, mindfulness instruction, peer support, and empowerment for young people living with chronic illness and their family members.

WTI

We The Interdependent

Interdependent world-building through advancing narratives, practices, and institutions for resilient futures. We enable civic imagination, declaration, and shared commitment to reestablishing relationality and responsibility to one another and the living world.

CIL

Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab believes all individuals and communities deserve spiritual care. CIL supports the spiritual care profession through continuing education, professional development, exploration for students, and consulting for employers and educators.