Welcome to Supple Community!
Supple Community is a platform for small group processes for liberatory social transformation, helping your own community become more adaptable, strong, and creative in turbulent times.
Together we can become more supple for a healing and generative future.
You can access the group processes on Supple Community at no cost. To access them, join Supple Community (free).
Shape your own process. Shape our shared future.
Agility Groups
Available Soon
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
Available Now
Groups ground in contemplative practice and shift, taking action for social change.
A short term small group process for 3 to 12 people. An organization could offer these for many participants split into small groups. Recommended for three to five sessions over 2 to 5 months.
Gather your people and start your own Ground Shift Group now!
Join at no cost to access Ground Shift Groups.
Conflict Capacity Groups
Available for self-facilitation soon; available as a facilitated process now.
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.
ReST Groups
Available for self-facilitation soon; available as a facilitated process now.
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.
