Emergence
Building Robust Practices for Sustained Wellness, Connection, and Power
Join the Action Alliance in partnership with national, state, and local leaders in the sexual and domestic violence field for an exciting new training and technical assistance initiative called the Emergence Project.
What: The Emergence Project will host a series of individual, organizational, and community wellness opportunities where participants will explore practices designed to build and deepen wellness at the individual, organizational or community level…or all three levels!
Where: Virtual and in-person gatherings for advocates, preventionists, and community partners centered on practicing strategies to create and sustain individual wellness and thriving.
Who: Advocates, preventionists, outreach staff, and agency leadership are all invited to participate. Sexual and domestic violence programs seeking to bring about organizational change will benefit from identifying a diverse team to participate in attending as many sessions as possible.
When: The Emergence Project will continue through September 2025.
Save the date for our two in-person gatherings in 2025:
- March 24-28
- September 8-12
Our other Winter-Spring 2025 offering will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
Why: The prolonged intensity of our work in recent years has taken its toll, creating high levels of burnout and turnover in our organizations. We are trained crisis and care workers, but we cannot maintain the pace indefinitely. Building healing-centered practices for ourselves, our organizations, and our communities are essential if we hope to be agents of change in the lives of survivors for generations to come.
At Individual, Organizational, and Community Levels
Deep transformation requires multiple levels of influence. The Emergence Project is designed to allow individuals to participate in a wide variety of practice for greater connection, wellness, and wholeness in our lives on the individual, organizational, and community levels.
We will explore connection, wellness, and wholeness, from the inside out—and in the process we will be re-building a strong, powerful, and sustainable movement that can open new possibilities of healthy and joyful futures for all of us.
Register for virtual and in-person Emergence sessions!
Why the Cicada for the Emergence Project Mascot?
The 2024 emergence of two broods of Cicadas in an area that included Virginia is a powerful inspiration for our own emergence from the darkness of the past few years.
When cicadas emerge, they make BIG noise. Their lives above ground are short, urgent, and fierce. They create what is called a “cascade,” disrupting their communities in small ways that build and crash through the entire ecosystem, creating positive change. Those small, cascading changes include aerating soil and helping plant life to thrive, providing an abundant food source for current and future generations of birds and animals, and moving nutrients throughout the ecosystem, leading to more robust health and wellness for flora and fauna alike.
Nature is a powerful teacher. Like the cicadas, we can grab onto the urgency of this moment. We can emerge from a period of isolation and division to come together in a powerful way and disrupt the ecosystems that support and promote violence in our communities. Like the cicadas, we can bring fierce spirits to our work on behalf of future generations.