Drop by our community garden any time between 12:00 pm and 4:30 pm on Tuesdays and 11:00 am and 3:00 pm on Saturdays to help us plant, tend, and harvest food and flowers with our neighbors. Wear casual clothes and closed-toe shoes that you don't mind getting dirty. Tools and gloves will be provided.

"People are not going to find their truth-force, or inner authority, by listening to the so-called experts, but by listening to themselves. Every one of us is an expert on what it is like to live on an endangered planet." -Joanna Macy Join Bianca Pointner and Kit Miller for weekly virtual circles to honor our […]

This series focuses on how we can embody nonviolence at work through our relationships, skills and structures. We’ll explore what nonviolence at work looks and feels like in the workplace on the personal, interpersonal, and professional levels. We’ll dig into how we can co-create processes, practices, policies, and spaces that are anchored in active nonviolence. Each […]

For many folks, effective communication has never felt harder or more important. Given the challenges our communities have been facing, it can be easy and almost irresistible to disengage from others, rather than talking about what’s really going on and to share a vision of where to go from here. Learning Nonviolent Communication offers one […]

That Rochester has a segregated past, despite being a northern city, would not surprise long time residents or even visitors to our community. However, few of us have an understanding of the deep roots of this segregation in our school systems and how they persist and impact youth, and all of us, to this day. […]

WEDNESDAYS JUNE 1ST - JUNE 29TH / 12:00 - 1:00 PM ESTOn average, people in the US spend about 3 hours on their phones per day and 8 out of 10 of us check them within fifteen minutes of waking up. In just a handful of years, smartphones and social media have become a nearly […]