WEAll California

California Ballot Measures Examined
2024-10-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Confused by the competing ads for and against measures on the November 5 ballot?
Come hear the League of Women Voters give an unbiased, nonpartisan explanation of the pros and cons of each measure. Learn about the issues, the context and the arguments for and against each proposition so you can make an informed decision
We will cover all the Propositions, but we will start with the one voted “Most Curious About”. Vote when you register at the link below.

Prop 2: School bond
Prop 3: Marriage Equality
Prop 4: Climate bond
Prop 5: Affordable housing
Prop 6: Slavery
Prop 32: Minimum wage
Prop 33: Rent Control
Prop 34: Healthcare
Prop 35: MediCal
Prop 36: Prop 47 recall

Thursday, Oct 24 from 5pm to 6pm Pacific
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Monthly Community Connection
2025-01-14 16:00 - 17:00
Our last community connection of 2024 was enriching. An attendee described it as cathartic.
The feedback we received is that people want a community to discuss how we create a society of wellbeing and to support each other through the emotional ripples of this work.
Each month we will have at least one connection session. The next question is finding times that work for our community. We have scheduled two sessions on January 14th to see how these times work for you.
If you can’t make either and want to lobby us for a different day or time, email us at connect @weallcalifornia.org.
Tuesday, Jan 14 at either 10am or 4pm
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Working Group Meeting
2025-01-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-19 16:00 - 17:00
All of WEAll CA’s events, research and advocacy is done by a team of volunteers.
If you are interested to learn more about what we have planned in 2025 or you would like to contribute to our efforts, please reach out to connect@weallcalifornia.org

Local Economy Success Story
2025-01-27 16:00 - 17:00
Just San Bernardino is creating a community-centered economy planned for the people and led by the people by uplifting community voices. The project is four years old and has accomplished many impressive successes in community building, incorporating arts into their economic plans and putting forward a series of economic mobility initiatives.
Co-Directors Miriam Nieto and Carolina Sanchez will share details about their multi-prong approach to economic mobility and thriving community.
If you haven’t been to one of our learning sessions, they are structured so that our attendees can ask questions. This session is ideal for people leading local initiatives to see how other communities are achieving successful outcomes.
If you would like to learn more about Just SB in advance of our session, you can look at their impressive People’s Plan report online.
Join us Monday, Jan 27 at 4pm Pacific
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If you would like to receive the recording of this event, please sign up.

Narrative Workshop
2025-01-28 16:00 - 17:00
An important part of creating a society centered around Wellbeing is helping others to see the possibilities and to choose actions that move us collectively in that direction. For all the progress we make, it seems that we aren’t winning as much as we hoped.
As part of our series on Wellbeing messaging and narratives, let’s dig into the other competing narratives and why they work so well.
This group discussion will be focused on four questions

What are the existing narratives that undermine a Wellbeing Economy message
What tactics are being used to perpetuate those narratives
What should we learn from the success of these tactics
What else would the group like to learn about messaging in 2025

Our goal is to create a place where we can individually and collectively improve our ability to lead change, be more persuasive and identify messaging that works.
If you missed our first workshop on how to craft a Wellbeing Narrative, you can find the recording on our YouTube channel which also has a link to the original study the session was based on.
We are holding two sessions – one for morning people and one for afternoon people.
You can sign up for 9am or 4pm HERE

Book Club - The Serviceberry
2025-02-06 18:30 - 19:30
The first Thursday of each month, we will read and discuss one chapter of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s excellent new book – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The book is beautifully written and feels so important to the discussion of envisioning and co-creating a healthier world. One of our main themes for 2025 is how do we create the language and stories that help more people believe such a world is viable.
The chapters are relatively short, so we hope you will read (or reread the chapter) so it is fresh in your mind.
On Thursday, Feb 6 at 630pm, we will discuss the first chapter.
Sign up HERE

Please consider buying it from Abe Books or a local, independent bookseller.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=32072116536

Monthly Community Connection
2025-02-11 16:00 - 17:00
Our Community Connect sessions do not have planned topics. We want to bring together activists, artists, community leaders and specialists to see what is needed and what can be created.
If you need some support or you are just looking for a place for deep conversation about our society, we invite you in.
We will hold the community support sessions on the second Tuesday of each month. We are experimenting with what times work best for the community.
This month, we will again do 10am and 4pm Pacific.
Email us if you prefer other times (connect@weallcalifornia.org).
Sign up HERE

Introduction to Wellbeing Economics
2025-02-13 18:30 - 19:30
Join us for an Introduction to Wellbeing Economics.
We will answer many of your hot and sizzling questions, such as:

What the heck is a Wellbeing Economy?
What is the difference between this and DeGrowth or Circular Economies?
What exactly does Wellbeing Economy Alliance California do?
What can I do to create a Wellbeing Economy in my community?

This will not be a webinar. Sure. We will give the razzle dazzle, but the focus will be on answering participants deeper questions.
Join us Thursday, February 13 from 630 to 730pm Pacific
SIGNUP HERE
If you are unable to make this time, please let us know at connect@weallcalifornia.org so we can plan a future Introduction.

Create a Local Support System for Coops
2025-02-18 16:00 - 17:00
Cooperatives are essential for creating more equitable communities. They uplift workers, create a fairer economy, and build community wealth and power. For cooperatives to grow and thrive, they need a supportive and connected ecosystem that includes established practitioners, values-aligned technical assistance and financing providers, and political, philanthropic, and institutional investment.
At this session, we will look at the different ways that local leaders are creating robust cooperative ecosystems to meet critical community needs.
We are joined by Zen Trenholm, Senior Director of Employee Ownership Cities and Policy from the Democracy at Work Institute (https://institute.coop/) to share their hands-on experience helping communities develop the language, tools, and infrastructure to build and scale worker ownership.
Sign up HERE

Narrative Workshop #2
2025-02-18 17:30 - 18:30
Join us as we discuss and brainstorm Wellbeing Economy Strategies.
Over the course of 2025, we will host a series of discussions and learn from experts in the field of messaging and narrative.
In our January discussion, we looked at the messages and tactics of competing narratives.
For our February meetings, we will consider the following questions:

What are the important elements of an effective strategy?
Who are the primary and secondary audiences?
What are the pros and cons of having a unified message?
What are the top three messages we want to break through?

We welcome people who have not joined other sessions. You will receive a summary of the January meeting when you register.
Join us on Tuesday, February 18th at either 9am or 530pm Pacific
Sign up HERE
Once you have signed up, you will receive a summary of our last session.
You can also watch the Learning session on Wellbeing Narratives from 2024 on our YouTube channel

Developing a Wellbeing Economy Platform
2025-02-25 16:00 - 17:00
One of our group projects for 2025, is to create a Policy Platform.
From a Process perspective, we want to accomplish multiple goals:

Spur dialogue across our community about what issues are most pressing
Dig into specific policy options and deepen collective knowledge
Have discussion about where and how disagree with the hopes of finding common ground

From an Outcomes perspective, we hope a unifying platform will allow us to:

Go to current local and state legislators with a series of requests
Make proposals to Attorney Generals about how they can pursue equity
Use joint actions to demonstrate how many people support these policies

This process began at a community session in 2024. We took the notes from that session and turned it into a first draft for comment. You can see the first draft here and the running feedback on that draft here If you would like to submit comments in advance of this session, please email them to connect@weallcalifornia.org
We will work on a revised draft and circulate that to people signed up for this community feedback session.
If policy is what lights you up, we encourage you to join us. We welcome everyone, especially those looking to learn more about specific policy strategies.
Over the course of 2025, we will host a series of deep dives into each of the Platform “planks” to create the detail. This session will be focused on the Introduction, tone and what “planks” to include.
Join us on Tue Feb 25 at either 10am or 4pm Pacific for our Platform discussions.
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University Connection
2025-02-26 11:00 - 12:00
Purpose of this group

Bring together Academics, Student Counselors and Student Leaders Activists
Seed “Wellbeing Economy” systemic thinking and concepts into curriculum across disciplines
To create experiential learning opportunities for students to better understand these concepts and develop leadership skills

Two main topics for this meeting:

Opportunities in the crises
Student Engagement

To join or for more information, please email connect@weallcalifornia.org

Working Group Meeting - Join Us
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00
All of WEAll California events and programs are run by our volunteer working group.
Our 2025 Strategy includes

Community Connection Events
Narrative Workshops
Policy Workshops
Speaker Series

and more.
To learn more about how to participate, please email us at connect@weallcalifornia.org

Building Local Wealth by Converting Businesses to Employee Owned Models
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:00
As we look for pathways to lift up more people, there is one tool that many communities overlook – converting existing businesses into Employee Owned businesses. Project Equity is a national nonprofit that provides education and technical assistance in the field of employee ownership, with specialized expertise in transitioning existing businesses to various models of employee ownership.
Annie Palacios of Project Equity is a leader in this field and will explain how to:

Find local businesses that are looking to sell in the near future
How to educate business professionals about this emerging trend
How to prevent long standing businesses from closing down
The different type of support to convert local businesses

As with all of our learning sessions, this will be an interactive discussion where you can ask Annie questions.
Sign up HERE

Book Club - The Serviceberry
2025-03-06 18:30 - 19:30
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s excellent new book – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
The book is beautifully written and feels so important to the discussion of envisioning and co-creating a healthier world. One of our main themes for 2025 is how do we create the language and stories that help more people believe such a world is viable.
Please join us as we discuss the book.
Sign up HERE

Please consider buying it from Abe Books or a local, independent bookseller.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=32072116536

Monthly Community Connection March
2025-03-11 16:00 - 17:00
Our Community Connect sessions do not have planned topics. We bring together activists, artists, community leaders and specialists to see what is needed and what can be created.
If you would like to be uplifted or are looking for deep conversation about our society, we invite you in.
We will hold the community support sessions on the second Tuesday of each month.
This month, we will again do 10am and 4pm Pacific. Let us know if these times don’t work for you. We track that.
Sign up HERE

Setting a Vision for the Future - Narrative Workshop
2025-03-18 10:00 - 11:00
Our theme for 2025 is how to build winning Narrative Strategies.
This month we are focused on clarifying our Vision of the beautiful future we would like to create together.
Our morning session (10am) will be led by Debilyn Molineaux of AmericanFuture.us. Debilyn has been a leader in the civic engagement field and her new project is aimed at helping people articulate the future they would like to live into.
Our afternoon session (4pm) we will do a slightly different process with the same aim. Helping people give voice to their desired future.
We will produce a final “Vision Statement” from all of our collective voices. This will go into the narrative map we have been constructing.
The workshop is open to everyone even if you have not participated in prior sessions. The map and meeting summaries will be included when you RSVP.
We have also booked several Narrative experts as part of this series:

March 20 – Akira Nakahara of Imperative 21
April 10 – Jasmine Banks of UnKoch My Campus
June 12 – David Ballard of Groundwork Collaborative
Join us Tuesday, March 18 at 10 am or 4pm Pacific

Sign Up HERE

Working Group Meeting - This sounds fun
2025-03-19 18:30 - 19:30

Policy Discussion - The Future of Work
2025-03-25 16:00 - 17:00
In February, we had invigorating discussions on Policy Platform strategies. (When you register, you will get access to those notes).
This month, we will begin our series of deep dives. Our first topic is “The Future of Work”.
If we are pursuing a long term strategy towards a society of health, wellbeing and equity, what is our ideal outcome for “jobs”? Shooting for fair wages, benefits and working conditions should be the minimum. Let’s set the end goal even higher.
Is a “jobs” guarantee the standard? What if automation eliminates whole sectors? Is Employee Ownership the standard? What other models exist? Or could exist?
Our discussion will center around these questions. We invite you to bring examples of policies or practices that you admire. Our brainstorm and sharing is intended to shift our collective thinking about what is possible in a future wellbeing economy.
You are invited to contribute at either 10am Pacific or 4pm Pacific.
Sign up HERE
Our updated Platform is here.

Education Working Group
2025-03-26 11:00 - 12:00
How can we work towards a Wellbeing Economy and Society?
Many of us feel that we need to leverage Education from K-12 and Universities.

Bring together Teachers, Student Engagement Officers and Student Leaders
Seed Wellbeing Economy systemic thinking and concepts into curriculum across disciplines
Create experiential learning opportunities for students to better understand these concepts and develop leadership skills

At these meetings we highlight work that attendees are doing and share our work so that others can build upon it.
To join one or more of our meetings, please fill out this short form HERE
After you have joined, you will receive access to our Repository and Resource List.

Policy Deep Dive and Action Event - CA Utilities
2025-03-27 16:00 - 17:00
Reclaim our Power is building support for SB332 to begin to move us from corporate for-profit utilities (PG&E, SC Edison) to local, community owned utilities. Reclaim Our Power has done extensive studies showing multiple benefits: savings, reduced risk and building community “power” (the other type).
California Senate Bill 332 will be introduced in early April and WEAll California would like to help get organizations to sign on to their letter in support of the bill.
We invite you to a presentation on the details of the studies and benefits next Thursday, March 27 at 4pm
Reclaim Our Power will answer any questions you have. You can learn more at https://reclaimourpowerca.org/
Or if your organization would like to show support you can sign on to the letter here
Sign up for our event HERE

If you want to earn extra credit, you can read David Dayen’s article on The Secret Society raising your Electricity Bills
https://prospect.org/environment/2025-02-21-secret-society-raising-your-electricity-bills/

Local Leaders Monthly Forum
2025-04-01 14:00 - 15:00
We are creating an “invite” only monthly meeting for people who are working to create Wellbeing Economies in their local community.
The idea behind making it invite only, is to create a space that will connect you with other change-makers working on Wellbeing Economy initiatives across California. We will exchange ideas and discuss challenges specific to growing local wellbeing economy initiatives in a local area.
Our first meeting will be Tuesday, April 1 from 2 to 3pm with a special focus on addressing the obstacles that our Wellbeing Economy projects face. Through an open discussion and co-creation session, we’ll explore shared challenges and potential solutions to support each other’s work.
The group will meet for an hour once a month so that they can get to know each other and the projects to provide continuity and continuing support.
If you think this could be a good fit for you, please fill out this short form

Volunteer Working Group
2025-04-02 16:00 - 17:00

Monthly Community Connection
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00
We create collisions! The good kind.
A space where you can connect to others pushing to co-create a “Wellbeing Economy”. Come for support, to vent or wonder out loud if that crazy idea you had could change everything.
We will hold the community connect sessions on the second Tuesday of each month at 10am (for the early birds) and again at 4pm (for the people who need time for the coffee to activate).
If you come to our Community Connection, you may never need coffee again. Bold Claim!
Sign up HERE

Narrative Expert - Jasmine Banks
2025-04-10 11:00 - 12:00
Storytelling and Communication is important to the art of Movement Building. Continuing our 2025 theme of learning from experts and doing exploratory workshops, we are excited to welcome Jasmine Banks for a Q&A session on April 10.
Jasmine has been successful across multiple organizations, platforms and communication types. Some of her projects include Generation Common Good, UnKoch My Campus and the successful podcast Parenting Is Political since 2010. Jasmine has a substantial online following and led a campaign that had over 2 million views in the first 24 hours.
Thursday April 10th at 11am Pacific
Sign up HERE

Narrative and Messaging Workshop - What is our Theory of Change
2025-04-15 10:00 - 11:00
In April, we will discuss what Actions we need to take and what is our Theory of Change to promote our future vision of a Wellbeing Economy
This will build off the work we did in the last 3 sessions:

Jan – Why are Narratives that undermine Wellbeing Economy messaging so effective
Feb – What audiences do we want to reach, and What messages do we want to promote
Mar – Setting our Future Vision

We have built a 2 page Narrative Map to summarize all of the previous work for our own clarity and to make easy for those who are joining us for the first time to participate. The map includes links to the more detailed version of those sessions.
2 sessions – 10am and 4pm
Sign Up HERE

Wellbeing Economics in Education Working Group
2025-04-23 11:00 - 12:00

Local Spotlight – Complete Neighborhoods in Hayward
2025-04-24 10:00 - 11:00
When you imagine your ideal future, what does your neighborhood look like? Is it green? Are the people friendly? Do you have to struggle through lots of traffic to get your errands done?
The Complete Neighborhoods movement is appealing because almost everything you need is within walking distance and the community has the feel of a village where people support each other and want to spend time with each other.
Didacus Ramos has been a community leader in Hayward for 20 years, working on affordable housing, public banking and many other civic projects.
His latest initiative, Complete Neighborhoods, is a part of the Strong Towns project.
Join us on Thursday, April 24 at 10am to learn more about this project and to inquire how you can replicate some of this in your community.
Sign up HERE

Narrative Expert "Office Hours" with Akira Nakahara
2025-05-01 09:00 - 10:00
Akira Nakahara is the CEO of Imperative 21, a network dedicated to building narrative power for a just and inclusive economy. He is also a co-lead of a new initiative, The Beloved Economies for Narrative Infrastructure working on a multi-year project to bring inclusive and well-being economic ideas into the mainstream.
Imperative 21 is global network building narrative power for a just economy. Strategic partners include: B Lab, The B Team, CECP, Wellbeing Economy Alliance (Global), Forward Global, New Capitalism Project, Common Future, The GIIN, JUST Capital, and Participant.
On Thursday, May 1st, Akira will share his thoughts on his view of what’s needed to identify winning messages and shift the narrative and take questions from our community on movement or people’s specific organizations and how to improve strategy.
Join us, Thursday May 1st at 9am Pacific
Sign up HERE
This is part of our Narrative Series running throughout 2025.
