Programs

We catalyze more than 25 programs

We engage in wide-ranging fields. Our interdisciplinary work has helped to design the field of integrative cancer care, to shape the environmental health movement, and to center resilience as the new polycrisis reality unfolds

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Commonweal Cancer Help Program

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.

Cancer
Death and Dying
Inner Life
Community
Thresholds

CancerChoices

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.

Cancer
Community
Thresholds
Inner Life

Center for Healing and Liberation

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.

Justice
Healing
Culture
Thresholds

Collaborative for Health & Environment

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.

Justice
Community
Resilience
Environmental Health

Commonweal Retreat Center

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.

Retreats and Hospitality
Healing
Community
Cancer
Death and Dying

Healing Circles Global

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.

Healing
Learning and Training
Community
Thresholds
Inner Life

Omega Resilience Awards

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.

Learning and Training
Resilience
Community
Culture

OMEGA

OMG

OMEGA

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

Culture
Resilience
Thresholds
Environmental Health
Arts and Creativity

Power of Hope

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.

Youth
Thresholds
Arts and Creativity
Culture

Partners for Youth Empowerment

PYE

Partners for Youth Empowerment

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

Youth
Arts and Creativity
Culture
Somatics

Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine

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.

Resilience
Nature and Ecology
Healing
Community

The Resilience Project

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.

Resilience
Community
Nature and Ecology
Environmental Health

Visual Thinking Strategies

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.

Learning and Training
Arts and Creativity
Community
Youth

GoCompassion

GOC

GoCompassion

GoCompassion focuses on under-served and under-resourced communities, using art as a portal for introducing meditation as a healing practice to bring clarity and healing.

Inner Life
Healing
Community

Migrant Support Network

MSP

Migrant Support Network

The Migrant Support Network provides support to the Foundation for the Gift of Love sanctuary in Tijuana, Mexico, which shelters migrants in need of a safe respite on their journey to a place on this planet they can call “home.”

Justice
Community
Resilience
Thresholds

The New School

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.

Nature and Ecology
Resilience
Learning and Training
Culture

Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center

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.

Healing
Environmental Health
Community
Learning and Training

California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice

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.

Resilience
Justice
Thresholds
Environmental Health
Healing

Center for Ethical Land Transition

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.

Community
Environmental Health
Resilience
Healing
Justice

The American Public Trust

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.

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Healing Circles Houston

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.

Healing
Community
Culture
Inner Life
Thresholds

Humane Prison Hospice Project

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.

Healing
Learning and Training
Thresholds
Community
Death and Dying

Healing Circles Langley

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.

Healing
Resilience
Thresholds
Inner Life
Community

Healing Circles Healthcare

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.

Healing
Learning and Training
Thresholds
Community

Commonweal History Project

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.

Resilience
Healing
Justice

Integrative Law Institute

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.

Justice
Healing
Resilience
Thresholds
Community

Kids and Caregivers

KAC

Kids and Caregivers

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

Youth
Healing
Community
Resilience

Octavia Fund

OCT

Octavia Fund

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

Resilience
Healing
Culture

Platform Impact Leaders Fellowship

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.

Culture
Thresholds
Community
Learning and Training

Somos El Poder

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.

Justice
Community
Learning and Training

Retreat Center Collaboration

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.

Retreats and Hospitality
Community
Learning and Training
Culture

Taproot Gathering

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.

Learning and Training
Community
Inner Life
Thresholds

West Marin Climate Action

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.

Environmental Health
Community
Thresholds
Justice
Resilience

Regenerative Design Institute

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.

Nature and Ecology
Resilience
Learning and Training
Community

Center for Dying and Living

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.

Inner Life
Death and Dying
Thresholds
Healing

Courage & Renewal Network of Northern California

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.

Inner Life
Healing
Community
Learning and Training

project SOUL

SOUL

project SOUL

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

Arts and Creativity
Learning and Training
Thresholds
Community

Healing Yoga Foundation

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.

Healing
Community
Thresholds
Resilience
Somatics

Foundation for Embodied Medicine

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.

Somatics
Healing
Community
Inner Life

Juvenile Justice Program

JJP

Juvenile Justice Program

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

Justice
Youth
Thresholds
Resilience

Movement Liberation Fund

MLF

Movement Liberation Fund

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

Justice
Somatics
Thresholds
Community
Inner Life

SafetyNEST Science

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.

Healing
Inner Life
Resilience
Learning and Training

West Marin Review

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.

Arts and Creativity
Nature and Ecology
Culture
Community

Kinship Blooms

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.

Community
Thresholds
Learning and Training
Arts and Creativity
Culture