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Deeper Change Events

CEIO's Deeper Change events create spaces that invite fundamental transformation. A change that is so deep that a return to the previous conditions is utterly inconceivable. Courageous conversations - grounded in peace, justice, and love.

There are four different ways we gather. Each has its own entry way into this work. All of them are about changing at the roots, practicing the world we want to live in, and deep connection with one another. Every event is freely offered with food to share. RSVPs are required.
 

Deeper Change Forums are deep dives into the work of practitioners, artists, change-makers, and scholars from near and far who address and move us toward systemic change throughout our society. Topics have ranged from environmental justice to wellbeing, organizing to art as disrupting injustice. Past speakers have included Mia Birdsong, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Leah and Naima Penniman, Bread & Puppet Theater, and Winona LaDuke. 

Deeper Change Salons are a gathering space to engage in ideas, inspirations, and connections that highlight and celebrate the practices of change-makers in the New Haven area..  Past Salons have featured Paul Bryant Hudson, Farron Harvey, Eric Rey, Deloris Vaughn, and biz nearing. Upcoming 2025 salons feature Trey Moore and Thema Haida.

 

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             Deeper Change Practice: Sacred Reading: This is a monthly place for contemplation, meditation, reflection, and presence. Each event will center on a single poem or text with no pre-reading required. We’ll spend time with the works of authors like Audre Lorde, Ross Gay, Naomi Shihab Nye,  John O’Donohue, Kai Cheng Thom and more.

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Run by our Seeding Conscious Co-Creation team, these are regular gatherings knitting together threads of community, care, creativity and conscious co-creation. Meetup with other local facilitators, artists, healers, cultural producers and organizers. Attend workshops, co-work, receive care, make some art, stretch and eat some yummy food.

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Deeper Change events & Fabric gatherings are open to all and offered freely. Registration is required.​

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DCF Current

Deeper Change Forum: Friday, October 16th | 10AM to 3PM

Free to attend. All ages welcome. Registration is required.

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Revolutionary Love: A Strategy for Democracy in Crisis

featuring Valarie Kaur

Friday, October 16th from 10am to 3pm
@ The Lab at ConnCORP (496 Newhall Street, Hamden, CT 06517)
 

CEIO, in partnership with Elm City Montessori School, warmly invites you to a special Deeper Change Forum featuring renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, filmmaker, faith leader, and bestselling author Valarie Kaur.
 

Join us for a free day of connection, reflection, nourishment, and conversation as we explore what it means to cultivate love as a force for justice and imagine what becomes possible when we choose courage, community, and collective care.

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Breakfast and lunch will be served. Space is limited and registration is required.

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VALARIE KAUR is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, faith leader, mother, and best-selling author of See No Stranger, Sage Warrior, and World of Wonder. She leads the Revolutionary Love Project, building a movement to reclaim love as a force for justice. A daughter of Punjabi Sikh farmers in California, Valarie earned degrees at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School and holds several honorary doctorates. She lives in LA in a multi-generational family.

To learn more, please visit her website and follow her work on Instagram (@valariekaur) and Facebook.

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FORUM SCHEDULE:

10:00 AM |
Doors Open + Breakfast

10:45 AM | Welcome + Group Activity

12:00–1:00 PM | Lunch

1:00–2:00 PM | Fireside Chat with Valarie Kaur

2:00–2:30 PM | Audience Q&A

2:30–3:00 PM | Book Signing

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CEIO UPCOMING EVENTS

INSPIRATION & WISDOM FROM PAST DEEPER CHANGE FORUM PRESENTERS

Preview: Conscious Co-Creation: A Path Toward Liberation
01:54
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?  | AJ+ Opinion
05:48
mind the gap by Universal Partnership
06:27
Climbing PoeTree: A Tapestry of Spoken-Word Poetry and Movement
11:38
Dr. Joy Degruy on empathy for Black people in America
11:54
Interview: Director Shakti Butler on Cracking the Codes & Race Dialogue
07:32
Universal Partnership's "Building the Core" Snapshot Video
02:39
Seane Corn: We Must Practice Conscious Activism
20:47
Ruby Sales – Where Does It Hurt?
52:05

All Past Presenters

Niyonu Spann - Dr. Joy DeGruy - Ruby Sales - Seane Corn - Climbing PoeTree - Leah & Naima Penniman - Lisa Graustein - Enroue Halfkenny - Charles Eisenstein - Jerry White - Barbara Tinney - George Penick -  Caitlin Breedlove - Ricardo Levins-Morales - Akaya Windwood - David Mura - Shakti Butler - Rusia Muhiuddin - Dr. Darya Funches - Aaron Jafferis - Lara Herscovitch - Hanifa Nayo Washington - JSUN - Terrence Riggins - New Haven (Be)Longing Choir - 2019 Dream & Activation Cohort (Katie Jones - Eric Rey - Thema Haida - Rachel Liu - Hillary Bridges - Raven Blake - Isha Vela - Robert Sheiman - Ro Godwyn - Finn Henry) - Seeding Conscious Co-Creation Cohort (Aspiring Abolitionists, Aligned to Thrive, Mending Minyan, Kurudi Watu, Imagining Abolition, RingShout:New Haven, Rising Rooted: Bloodroot, Seeds and Sprouts, Str8OuttaEden)  - Nalo A.K. Zidan - Winona LaDuke - Dr. Jamila Lyiscott

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