WEAll California

WEAll 101 - What is a Wellbeing Economy and how do we get there
2024-01-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
Come join us for our very first WEAll 101.
Our team is working hard to prepare a learning session on Wellbeing Economics and how you can help make your local economy into a Wellbeing Community.
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WEAll CA Working Group
2024-01-17 16:00 - 17:00
The WEAll California team is a powerful and mighty force; changing the course of rivers and leaping lousy economies in a single bound.
Our team is leading several projects to accelerate collective action towards a healthier society. We meet every Wed at 4pm.
For more details, please email us at
connect@weallcalifornia.org

Book Club - Jane McAlevey - No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
2024-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
This is our first attempt at a book club. We are excited.
Jane is a long time union organizer and negotiator. Her 2018 book focuses on how we as a society need to organize for more political power to reverse the policies that enabled a huge transfer of wealth.
We do ask for people to have actually read the chapter (or a few pages at a minimum). The purpose is to keep the discussion focused on the book.
Here is a link to the book at Half Price Books. We encourage you to use a local book store or non Amazon site like Abebooks or get from your local library.
https://www.hpb.com/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/M-108931-T.html
We will be reading one Chapter every two weeks. Join us for a fun, lively and thought provoking conversation.
Jan 16 – Chapter 1
Jan 30 – Chapter 2
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Eliminating Poverty in Washington State
2023-12-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The State of Washington has formed an innovative partnership between government, non profits, tribes, business, philanthropy (and many others) and most importantly, those who stand to benefit the most from state policy/program decisions that we feel meets many of the criteria that we seek in a Wellbeing Economy.
Lindsay Morgan Tracy is the Innovator-in-Chief of Economic Justice and is one of the leads on the Blueprint for a Just and Equitable Future: The 10 Year Plan to Dismantle Poverty.
Lindsay will step up us through the incredible work that has been done to date and explain the roadmap for what is next.
This will be an interactive learning event and you will be able to ask Lindsay questions about the progress and plan.
Please join us for our last event of 2023. We think this will be a stellar learning event.
Thursday, December 14 at 4pm Pacific
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WEAll CA Working Group
2023-12-13 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-25 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-04 00:00, 2023-09-06 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-08-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom

Pomona In Person Gathering
2023-11-15 18:00 - 20:00
A celebration of our 2 year anniversary of work in Pomona and also a planning session to see how we can grow and accelerate the movement in Pomona Valley towards a Wellbeing Economy.
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Donut Day
2023-11-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
A list minute addition for International Donut Day.
See more info at the Doughnut Economics website. Thanks to Jessie Green for pulling this together so quickly.
https://doughnuteconomics.org/events/391
No Registration needed.

What money from the Inflation Reduction Act could be used towards my local project?
2023-09-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
We are delighted to have Andrew Ellis of Climate Reality Project join us on Tuesday, Sep 26th.
Andrew is a senior member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. He co-founded Climate Reality’s Los Angeles Chapter and is a member of the Climate Business Working Group Leadership Team (CBWG).
He has been a professional Environmental Scientist and Climate Advocate for several decades. Andrew is extremely knowledgeable about so many of the issues surrounding climate work.
We will start our session with an overview from Andrew on the structure of the Inflation Reduction Act and the different types of spending it authorizes. As with all of our learning events, we then open up the discussion to questions from attendees.
We hope that you can join us for this special session to learn how we might leverage these funds to stimulate work in our local communities and across our state.
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Podcast Discussion Club
2023-09-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
We will be discussing the Bioneers episode on Legalizing Rights of Nature as a way to enact climate and environmental laws. We ask that everyone attending have actually listened to the podcast before joining. We recognize that many people are knowledgeable about this topic, however, we feel it deepens the conversation when people are discussing the specific episode.
Podcast Episode
https://bioneers.org/legalizing-natures-rights-tribal-nations-leading-fastest-growing-environmental-movement-history/
To sign up for this discussion, please use this form.

Podcast Discussion Club
2023-08-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
You are invited to our launch of our Podcast Discussion Club. Like most of our events, we host a casual atmosphere where we encourage people to turn on their cameras and participate. We will use breakouts and other techniques to keep you engaged in fun, lively or thoughtful discussion and help you meet/connect with others who are doing good work to bring about a society where people, communities and the planet are filled with wellbeing.
Our first podcast episode features Anand Giridharadas as a guest on The Good Life Podcast. Anand was there to promote his book THE PERSUADERS. I haven’t finished listening, but one theme that Anand keeps coming back to is what sort of vision will inspire us to take healthy actions.
You can listen on the web at this link or in your podcast app. The episode was released November 6, 2022.
https://shows.acast.com/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf/episodes/anand-giridharadas-how-to-change-minds
Check out the episode and then come spend some time with us.

To register for this event, please click the link below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2X3cuwnK2KzvgFAlqjC66w6jNTO89fXN8z6aZQJlanROYDA/viewform

Volunteer Team Meeting
2023-07-26 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-07-12 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-06-28 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The WEAll California volunteer team is a powerful and mighty force; changing the course of rivers and leaping lousy economies in a single bound.
Our team is leading several projects to accelerate collective action towards a healthier society. Come check out one of our volunteer meetings to learn more.
For more details, please email us at
connect@weallcalifornia.org

Alliance Convening for July
2023-07-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our volunteer team is pouring over data…this is humans doing it… not AI or machines. We will soon post our topic and confirm our date.
As always, our monthly Convenings are about warm and inviting spaces to meet others doing work toward a society filled with wellbeing.
To join this months Convening, please fill out THIS FORM

Conversation with Post Growth Institute
2023-07-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Join us on Wed., July 19 from 2 – 3 pm as we learn about the Post Growth Institute’s Offer and Needs Market: a guided process in which community members meet to identify and exchange their passions, knowledge, skills, resources, opportunities, and needs. For over a decade, this approach has been used to catalyze and deepen relationships.
Crystal Arnold will share about how community organizers around the world are using this process to circulate value in a fun and effective way that also invites us to heal from social isolation and money trauma.
Come learn about using the Offers and Needs Market and how it can bring vitality into your community and stimulate a wellbeing economy.
Our Conversations are not webinars. We encourage attendees to turn on their cameras and be in community with others who are working towards the beautiful vision of society. There is a short presentation and then attendees can ask Crystal their questions.

To sign up, please use this FORM

Conversation with Democracy Collaborative
2023-06-29 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Join us for a special Conversation between Sarah McKinley of Democracy Collaborative and the Core Team of our Pomona Valley Wellbeing Project as they discuss how to replicate some of the success of the “Cleveland Model” in the city of Pomona.
John Nolte and Michael Witmer are some of the founding members of the Pomona Project and deeply committed to creating a more equitable economy in Pomona. How to do it is the big question?
Democracy Collaborative has been working in Cleveland, Ohio for over a decade and this will be a discussion between John, Michael and Sarah about how Pomona might better plan for success.
This will be a bit different than our “normal” conversations as we will more be watchers than participants. Participants can submit questions to John or Michael via chat.
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You can read more about Local Economies on our website at https://weallcalifornia.org/economy/purchasing-power-for-local-wealth/

Alliance Convening for June
2023-06-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
June 21 is Localization Day.
Our Convening this month is about practicing how we speak about Wellbeing Economies to those who are……hard to convince. Your conservative aunt, perhaps.
As always, our monthly Convenings are about warm and inviting spaces to meet others doing work toward a society filled with wellbeing.
To join this months Convening, please fill out THIS FORM

Alliance Convening for May
2023-05-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our monthly Alliance Convenings are for anyone involved in the Wellbeing Economy movement. This is a wide circle that includes social justice, climate change, housing and many other sectors working towards a holistic and healthy society. The Convenings are a way to meet others doing good work while engaging in deep discussions about how to accelerate change. We also like to have a little fun too, but please don’t tell anyone.
Our topic for May is to consider a letter to Governor Newsom to declare California a Wellbeing Economy. Several countries have done this.
Once you register for the event HERE, you will be sent the draft version under consideration. At the convening, we will discuss whether or not the letter is an effective strategy and how we might attract people to sign on to the letter.

Alliance Convening
2023-04-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our monthly Convenings are opportunities for people who want to connect with others interested in weaving a holistic and healthy world that includes economic equity. Come listen and be listened to as we discuss a specific topic to forge bonds.
For our April Convening, you help select the topic when you register for the event. SIGN UP on THIS FORM to receive the Zoom information

WEAll California Volunteer Team
2023-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Join our merry band of travelers as we help California and THE WORLD move into a Wellbeing based system that prioritizes people and planet over profit.
You can help us plan our current activities or just learn more about what we do.
To join us, please send an email to connect@weallcalifornia.org to get the zoom link.

Conversation with Democracy Policy Network
2023-03-29 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The Democracy Policy Network (DPN) empowers state leaders, policy experts, and volunteer researchers across America to gather, develop, and spread a transformative state policy agenda for deepening American democracy. To that end, DPN publishes policy kits — comprehensive, deep-dive resources on everything a lawmaker, staff or advocate needs to know to champion a promising policy — and each month DPN brings together a panel of experts, advocates, and legislators to share their story and answer questions about the nuts and bolts of raising up an inspiring and impactful state policy idea. DPN co-founder Mike Draskovic will join us to tell us about their recent successes and their vision for the future of place based democracy.
Our Conversations are not webinars. They are interactive sessions where the community gets to hear from each other and ask questions to the person presenting. We won’t make you speak, but encourage you to. We do not record these sessions, so that they feel more fresh, alive and a comfortable place to be heard.
TO SIGN UP, please use THIS FORM and we will send you a calendar event with the Zoom link.

Conversation with STAR Voting
2023-03-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Come learn about new voting technology that can improve the health of our democracy. Arend Castelein from STAR Voting will explain how this technology reduces political extremism and can be useful to combat other problems with our elections. STAR is an improved form of “Ranked Choice Voting” that is simpler, more transparent, and more fair. Arend will explain how it works and take us through a fun exercise to learn more.
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You can read about STAR Voting and other election reforms on our Resource Guide at http://weallcalifornia.org/democracy/voting-methods/

Monthly Convening
2023-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Spend a fun hour with other people who are dedicated to creating wellbeing for all. Our convenings are group conversations with people who work or volunteer in variety of areas coming together to share and inspire. Our conversations are spontaneous and range across democracy, inner wellbeing, collaboration and economic innovations.
Register at this link to join us Wednesday, Feb 8 at 4pm Pacific

Conversation with Amanda Janoo
2023-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
WEAll Global’s Economic and Policy Lead, Amanda Janoo, will share about WEAll’s project to help accelerate the Wellbeing Economy movement in the US. As WEAll works to build out it’s strategy and plans, your input, ideas and perspectives on where WEAll can add most value will be vital to ensuring a powerful and transformative New Year.
Join us Wed, Jan 25th at 4pm Pacific for a Conversation with Amanda Janoo
To join in the conversation, register here

Convening for January
2023-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our convenings are about bringing together heart centered leaders across a multiplicity of disciplines to imagine, say out loud and put into practice a world dedicated to wellbeing over profits.
If your work intersects with this nebulous term “wellbeing economy”, we welcome you into this monthly discussion space to talk about what you are up to and how we can co-create a society that acts as if wellbeing matters.
Our discussion this month will be centered around the topic of what you would like to see WEAll California focus on for 2023.
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