Hi, this is Susan, Spirit in Action’s new web manager.  I’m excited to be putting up our second post because Linda Stout and Pamela Freeman  presented a workshop in Boston yesterday at the  Third Sector New England Nonprofit Workout 2007 Conference. 

The workshop was called Circles of Change: Creating New Ways of Working Together.   People experienced and learned about developing a collective vision that propels us into the future and inspires and energizes us toward creative action. 

That is at the heart of our work, and a good introduction to Spirit in Action.

After the conference, the TSNE folks plans to post a podcast of the workshop, and we’ll link to it when it’s up.

Since this is an introduction post, here is a little more about Linda and Pamela.

Linda Stout, a grassroots organizer and activist for 25 years, is a 13th-generation Quaker born to a tenant-farming family. In 1985, she founded the Piedmont Peace Project, which attracted national attention for its success in building a powerful multi-racial, multi-class organization that made both local and national political change. In 1995, Linda became executive director of The Peace Development Fund and initiated several groundbreaking projects, which explored ways to build a winning progressive Movement for change. Linda founded Spirit in Action in January 2000 to seek out transformative tools, models and resources for building a powerful and visionary progressive movement.  

Pamela Freeman, a longtime social activist, is the founder of the Philadelphia Black Women’s health project and a cofounder of Playback for Change, an improv theater company that has a focus on looking at race, class, rank, privilege and gender. She is also a former board member of Spirit in Action and Training for Change. Pamela is a therapist and facilitator who resides in Philadelphia. She is in the Community Dharma program at Spirit Rock meditation and also leads trainings on nonviolent communication