Lead with Love is a curated multimedia performative event in which community members will experience storytelling through poetry, dance, audio, video and more.

In the 6th and final session of this Series, we invite you to Radical Healing for Systems Transformation: Building Collective Care in our Organizations. We are pleased to have Dr. Shawn Ginwright of Flourish Agenda as our featured presenter. Dr. Ginwright will be sharing a framework and principles of radical healing, where culture and connection are centered, where relationships are primary, and where our success is beloved community.

For one night only, RYSE Center is open to adults ages 21 and over. Join us at our annual fundraiser, this year in true 90s house party fashion! Early bird ticket packages start at just $20. Admission comes with drink and food tickets. Support RYSE!

In the 5th Session of RYSE’s Trauma and Healing Learning Series, we invite you to Revealing White Privilege and Healing Racial Trauma.  Dr. Kenneth Hardy, internationally recognized clinician, author, and trainer is returning  to share insights to work together to reveal and heal the psychological wounds of white privilege in order enliven justice, reconciliation, and liberation.This session is co-hosted by RYSE and The James Morehouse Project at El Cerrito High School.

The school to prison pipeline is a palpable, powerful, and harmful convergence of structural policies, practices, and punishment of young people of color’s coping, survival, pain, and fortitude. This session will present the dynamics and effects of such convergence and hold space to discuss the implications and obligations to cultivate the policies, practices, and investments to repair the harms and enliven healing and just systems.

Ring in the holiday season with food, music, and fun! This community event is FREE and open to all! There will be food, winter goody bags for children, special edition RYSE warm swag giveaway, free eye exams and glasses from Vision to Learn, art activities, and more! 

In this session, RYSE Center will share our approach and practice of restorative and non-violent communication as a means of building beloved community.  We will share what led us to employ this approach with young people, staff, and partners, and consider the necessity and opportunities to create collective commitment, support, and accountability with this approach. The session will include time to run scenarios and situations relevant to y/our work.

Join us on Monday 10/30 at DON'T SCREAM, a haunted house + party, for young people ages 13-21. And the next day on Halloween, RYSE is open to children of ALL AGES with each room as a trick or treat stop + costume contest! 

Our 4th Annual Trauma and Healing Learning Series will build on learnings and impacts of previous years to assert and ensure racial justice as central tenet of trauma-informed approaches. At this Launch, we will share our framework of atmospheric trauma and healing and its application in personal, organizational, and collective praxis.