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Welcome to Supple Community!

Supple Community is a platform for your group’s use and a consulting practice to support your group. Supple Community offers you group processes for collaborative change, and facilitation and expertise to serve your own community in becoming more adaptable, strong, and creative in turbulent times.

Together we can become more supple for a healing and generative future.

 

Shape your own process. Shape our shared future.

 
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Agility Groups

A 12 session adaptable process for one small group or for hundreds of participants split into many small groups. Recommended for a year or more.

Groups identify an area of social justice or diversity, equity, and inclusion to address together, and then they shape their path toward change. Groups build agility for holding their vision and values together as they meet the challenges of turbulent times.

(This process is fully developed and has been used offline. We’re in the process of uploading it for your group’s use. If you would like access to a hard copy in the meantime, contact anna@supplecommunity.org )

Ground Shift Groups

A short term small group process for one group or for many participants split into small groups. Recommended for three months or more.

Groups ground in contemplative practice and shift, taking action for social change.

(This process is fully developed and has been used online in another platform no longer available. We’re in the process of making it available here. If you would like a pdf of the old version in the meantime, email anna@supplecommunity.org.)

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ReST Groups

The ReST process is aimed at Restoring Strength after Trauma. This process focuses on repair and resilience for groups shaping their future after experiencing trauma or harm. ReST is inpired by STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience).

Because facilitation helps so much in the work of communal trauma healing, the full version of ReST is a facilitated process. However, your group always has power to begin your own change, and so we offer a smaller, self-facilitated option here: ReST Groups.

ReST Groups assist your team or community in beginning to explore how intentionally acknowledging trauma and generating healing possibilities can rebuild your individual and collective strength. Groups find their way toward restored strength and vitality.

The link for the ReST Groups will appear here by the end of December 2025. Visit again soon!

Capacity Groups

Capacity Groups affirm your group’s ability to build strength and agility for conflict.  You can expand your capacity to hold conflict and to navigate internal and external resistance.  

When your group is navigating conflict, working with a skilled facilitator is advisable whenever possible for your team.  Conflict is complex and skilled accompaniment gives you a neutral third party to help you navigate the complexity.

Meanwhile, a Capacity Group is a step your group can take together to presence conflictual dynamics at play in your group’s life and to increase your shared agility during conflictual turbulence.

These group materials are under development and will be short: approximately 4 two hour sessions, for a month of weekly sessions (or two weeks of twice weekly sessions). They are a short, compact way to work with conflict together and discern if a longer process with more support, or other next possibilities, are needed.

Mind Body Skills Groups

Mind Body Skills Groups are a facilitated process created by the Center for Mind Body Medicine. Learn more here.

Anna of Supple Community also facilitates Mind Body Skills Groups. Participants in a a Mind Body Skills Group with Anna can access additional group resources here after registering.

Facilitation Resources

To support the self-facilitated group resources here on Supple Community, we’ll be posting a self guided training module here for those wanting to refresh their facilitation skills as they volunteer to co-facilitate their groups.