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The Social Change Sanctuary

TURNING A POOL OF TEARS INTO A SEA OF SOCIAL CHANGE

For thousands of years, people have been mourning in collectives with rituals, prayers and songs.

Your not supposed to mourn alone.

In the face of so much crisis and catastrophe, coming together to grieve can help us move through traumatic experiences, sustain our solidarity and create social change.

If you’re looking for a safe space to grieve & mourn, to find hope in hardship...

Join us at the Social Change Sanctuary.

Upcoming Events

Collective Mourning

co-facilitated by

Amanda Nagai & Alison Ramer

Thursday, January 16th

9 am PST / 12 pm EST

Our Values

  • Working to create a just, equal and free world for all in recognition of the interconnected web of life.

  • Respect for diverse religious, spiritual, humanist and earth-centered traditions.

  • Practicing co-resistance in struggles for racial, indigenous, and gender justice.

  • Collectively opposing racism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism

  • The grief feels constant, but in these rituals, it transforms into a shared burden, one that we all carry together.

    Participant

  • Grief has a million faces, voices, and we need them all to heal.

    Amanda Nagai, Co-Founder

  • I've been deep in sorrow. Doom scrolling as I watched the genocide unfold. But the sanctuary helped me pause and transform the pain.

    Grief Gathering Participant

  • Transforming grief into the resilience needed for social change is a communal process.

    Alison Avigayil Ramer, Co-founder

  • I’ve been told that grief is love with no place to go. Consider the sanctuary a place for your grief to lay down roots. Together we can cultivate a garden of grief that feeds the whole and tends the soul.

    Gabi Jubran, Co-Founder

Our Story

Together with spiritual communities, activists, artists and movement partners, we are co-creating grief rituals to hold our heartbreak, rooted in collective healing and resilience.

Since October 7th over 500 people of multiple faiths and nationalities have joined us for collective mourning rituals and workshops.

Past Events

Political Grief Ritual

led by Alison Avigayil

September 7

Online

4pm PST / 7pm EST

Community Grief Ritual

led by Coby Liebman, Gabi Jubran, Amanda Nagai & Muna AlSheikh

September 15

In Person - Bodega, CA

10 am - 5 pm PST

Collective Mourning for Resilience

led by Gabi Jubran and Alison Ramer

October 6th

10:00 am PST

Online

Newsletter

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Resources

The Necessity of Collective Grieving

Grief tender and poet Amanda Nagai shares with Ignite Talks, a global speaker series, about the need for collective mourning

Youth Without Borders

Grief tender and writer Alison Carmel shares about how Youth Without Borders is continuing in Gaza.

Emergence in Emergency

How has the Social Change Sanctuary responded during this time? Where do we go from here?