…over the country, people are recognizing how civity and the relational infrastructure that civity creates are essential for community resilience. We are thrilled to announce two new Civity initiatives to…
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Weaving a Civity Cloth
…to change the culture. Brooks names and celebrates Weavers who do this important work. Civity is a name for what emerges from that work, for a way of life in…
The Journey from Head to Heart
…is personal in the sense that it’s genuine and authentic: It’s a “civity relationship.” What we’ve found in doing Civity workshops – which give people strategies for and practice in…
The Power of ‘Power-With’
…add a different strand to a (potentially) many-ply thread. Over time, as civity conversations and interactions and brushes with other people multi-ply, civity grows. And as civity grows, a culture…
Acts of Civity Amidst Tragedy Lead to Enduring Connections
Civity is more than connecting and belonging; it is a cultural change. Recently, I experienced civity even in the midst of tragedy. In December 2022, my city was on fire….
A Quilt Meditation on Democracy, Social Connection, & Civity
…that maximizes bridging ties.” This is civity. Civity is relationships across difference where respect and empathy create horizontality, the counter to domination. In the quilt of democracy, relationships are the…
Civity and Housing Policy: Creating the Space for a Different Kind of Conversation
…Instagram, is based on the San Francisco Peninsula, the epicenter of housing scarcity. As part of a larger housing initiative, Meta reached out to Civity to work with communities to…
We Are All Connected: Civity in the Time of COVID-19
Dear Friends of Civity– We hope you all are holding up (and for many of us, holing up) and staying safe and healthy. We realize the current environment is unsettling,…
Civity and Civic Engagement
The civity work of building relationships in communities doesn’t fit into standard categories . . . People sometimes ask us: Is civity about inclusion, diversity, and equity? (Yes.) Is it…
Civity as the Antidote to Privilege
…oblivious, to sustain privilege-as-obliviousness by making it easy. The practice of civity interrupts this vicious cycle. Just as privilege-as-obliviousness is the absence of respect, civity is the practice of respect,…