Monthly Community Connection
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
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 | Zoom
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 | Zoom
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, 2025-05-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
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.

Local Spotlight – Complete Neighborhoods in Hayward
2025-04-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
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 | Zoom
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.

Local Leaders Monthly Forum
2025-05-06 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
This is a recurring monthly meeting for people involved in creating Wellbeing Economies in their local community.
We discuss challenges specific to growing local wellbeing economy initiatives in a local area and share solutions, feedback and support.
This Forum requires an application to join to make sure it is a good fit. If you think this could be a good fit for you, please fill out this short form

Multiple Coop Model in Action - Santa Cruz
2025-05-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Ventures has launched Futuro, a professional back office and training program to scale up worker owned cooperatives in the Salinas Valley. A leading focus of Futuro is to provide income and wealth building for working-class Latin families, with a focus on women and immigrant workers. As the program matures, Ventures intends to transition ownership of Futuro to the community.
Maria Cardenas is the Executive Director of Ventures, a Northern California non profit that builds community wealth through a variety of programs. Maria will join us on Thursday, May 8 at 11am to share some of the successes and struggles of launching a multiple Coop based Eco-system.
As will most of our learning events, this is a Q&A style event, where you can inquire about some of the challenges as you work to launch more Coops in your community.
Join us – Thursday May 8 at 11am by signing up HERE

Good Gov LA
2025-05-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-06-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Good Gov LA is a new project to bring together Healthy Democracy groups across Los Angeles for a chance to connect, create opportunities for partnership and build a supportive network.
Not all of the groups need to be fully aligned and many have special focuses like election reforms, ethics and accountability or public engagement in democracy.
The group holds monthly zoom meetings the second Thursday of each month at 12pm Pacific and occasional in person networking events.
To join a meeting or learn more, please fill out this FORM.
WEAll California is a partner in this venture. Healthy Democracy and Collaboration are essential pillars to a wellbeing future.

Community Connect
2025-05-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
A welcoming space to meet new and existing members. In addition to making new connections, we discuss a variety of topics ranging from how to cope with national issues and challenges in our work or where we find humor and awe.
Sign up HERE for our May Connect

SoCal Collective Wellbeing Initiative
2025-05-15 08:00 - 17:00
Longtime alliance member, Human Values Center has organized a Regional Wellbeing Event. This will be a 1 day in person event in Pomona, CA.
On May 15th, the SoCal Collective Wellbeing Initiative will bring approximately 100 leaders from the grasstops and grassroots together to explore the poly-crisis moment we are living in, for storytelling and listening, to find ways to cooperate and collaborate, and to find hope and agency working together for the common good to foster collective well-being.
The Summit will be a mix of interactive and speakers. Speakers include people from Homeboy Industries, Liberty Hill Foundation and LA County Offices.
WEAll CA is a co-sponsor.
Click here to learn more or reserve your seat
Collective Wellbeing Summit – Reserve your seat

Proposed CA Legislation to Remove Corruption from Elections
2025-05-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Common Cause California has a dedicated team that works to promote legislation to defend and strengthen American democracy. Their top issues include fair redistricting, reducing corruption and innovations in public participation.
This year, Common Cause CA is a sponsor of a California State Bill that could be a big step toward public financing of elections. Public Financing is one tool to mitigate the negative affects of unlimited money in our politics.
David Shor is the Money in Politics Program Manager at Common Cause CA. He is the staff lead for SB 42 and will educate us about the bill.
Sean McMorris is the Transparency, Ethics & Accountability Program Manager of Common Cause CA and he will educate us about Common Cause’s role in the state and initiatives he is working on.
Join us Thursday, May 22 at 11am Pacific
Sign up HERE

You can read more about SB 42 here and also sign on as a supporter.
Link to bill
Also, Northern California members, you can join a May 18th Berkeley event to promote SB42

Using Values to Create Local Community
2025-05-30 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Dr. Neil Hawkes specializes in community.
Neil is the founder of Values-based Education(VbE), which is a whole school philosophy and methodology to create a learning and teaching environment based on universal human values. It enables young people to develop their character, which is Self-led.
Self leadership is the gift of VbE, which is so needed in the world. VbE includes students, parents, teachers and the community. It has been successfully run all around our planet.
If you are interested in how deep discussions about Values can build community, please join us this event hosted by US Values Alliance on Friday, May 30 at 9am Pacific.
Sign up HERE
You can learn more about Dr. Hawkes at https://www.neilhawkes.org/

Volunteer for WEAll California
2025-06-04 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
All of WEAll California events and programs are run by our volunteer working group.
Are you good at Social Media, Web Design, Research? We need your help.
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

Community Connect
2025-06-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
A welcoming space to meet new and existing members. In addition to making new connections, we discuss a variety of topics ranging from how to cope with national issues and challenges in our work or where we find humor and awe.
Sign up HERE for our June Connect

Local Wellbeing Economy Guide Launch Celebration
2025-06-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
We’re excited to announce the release of our Local Wellbeing Economy Guide (v1.0) — a new resource developed by WEAll California volunteer team to help communities take tangible steps toward building a wellbeing economy.
From local business strategies to community engagement practices, the guide offers practical tools, inspiring ideas, and real-world examples to spark action at the local level.
We’d love to hear your thoughts! What do you like best? What’s missing? How might we improve future versions? Let’s co-create a guide and a movement that truly reflects our shared vision of thriving people and planet.
Got event ideas? We’re also planning events to celebrate the guide and showcase the many ways people are putting wellbeing economy principles into action. We welcome your ideas!
In solidarity,
The WEAll California Volunteer Team
Sign up HERE
Explore the guide here:
https://weallcalifornia.org/engage/local-wellbeing-economy-guide/

Planning Meeting
2025-06-20 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
All of WEAll California events and programs are run by our volunteer working group.
If you would like to help us with our current and future projects, this is the place to be.
We meet every two weeks.
Our projects under consideration right now are:

Leveraging the 2026 Governors Race
Planning In Person Events
Organizing a Wellbeing Economy Conference for 2026
How to improve our social media game

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

Narrative Workshop - Leveraging the Governor's Race
2025-06-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
2026 will be the California Governor’s race. How can we leverage some of the tools being shared by the experts presenting to WEAll CA this year? What sort of message do we want to send? What tools and tactics can we utilize?
This will be an interactive group session where we collectively examine options available to us.
How do we build a collective strategy to get more Californians thinking a Wellbeing Economy is in reach?!
Join us in setting the action plan
Tuesday, June 24th at 4pm. Sign up HERE

You may want to check out our last 2 Narrative training sessions

Akira Nakahara, Imperative 21
Jennifer Messenger, Met Group and Anita Chandra, RAND

Or sign up for one of our 3 upcoming Narrative Learning sessions:

June 26 – Jasmine Banks, UnKoch My Campus
July 7 – Frances Rayner, WEAll Global Communications
July 10 – David Ballard, Groundwork Collaborative

Green Economy Conference
2025-06-25 08:00 - 17:00
Our partners at Community 3.0 are hosting the Green Economy Conference at the LA Arboretum on June 25-26th.
Conscious investing meets exponential solutions, indigenous wisdom, empowering underserved communities, and sharing initiatives for solving our most pressing environmental challenges.

Day 1: Green Economy Challenges & Solutions, Exclusive Matching Event & Planetary Pitch Session
Day 2: Our Collective Dream and Collaborative Action, Extreme Connectivity asset to need matching

As part of our #REBUILDLAGREEN initiative, we have decided to absorb all ticketing and processing fees on Eventbrite, recognizing the challenges faced by those impacted by the LA fires.
Learn more and register at:
https://community30x.com/gec-2025

Wellbeing Economics in Education Working Group
2025-06-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
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 our June meeting please signup HERE
After you have joined, you will receive access to our past meeting notes and Resource List.

Narrative Expert Series - Jasmine Banks
2025-06-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
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.
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.
Sign up HERE

Leveraging a Crisis to Advance Wellbeing- Australian Fire Recovery
2025-07-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Megafire events are becoming increasingly frequent in California and around the world. To reflect on the recovery process, we ask:

How can we as a global community learn from one another’s recovery efforts to build local to global resilience?
What data helps us steer into healthier choices during recovery?
How can we include the community into the recovery process?

After the devastating 2019-20 Black Summer Bushfires in Australia, Bega Valley Data Collective (BVDC) created a community empowerment process and set parameters for data collection that drove amazing results. April Merrick and Tim Whitaker from Bega Valley Data Collective will share their purpose and the metrics and outcomes with us and answer your questions about how they might apply to our local recovery efforts. BVDC is a volunteer-based, not-for-profit association with the mission to empower the community to thrive through a wellbeing framework based on collaboration, data and action.
In addition, Carolyn Ardler and April from the Foundation for Regional & Rural Renewal will share their experiences of how funding organisations can work with Not-for-Profit organisations or community groups to ensure they can not only continue to support their communities after disasters but also be financially sustainable. FRRR is a not-for-profit organisation that connect common purposes and funding from government, business and philanthropy with the genuine local needs of rural people and places.
This session will be hosted by longtime WEAll CA Partner Catalina Langen of Civic Wellbeing Partners and Santa Monica Bay Area Human Relations Council.
To join us on Tuesday, July 8th at 4pm Pacific, please sign up below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfccOVCLZGKVZGHJ5QsMFINETdoswn53-9rR05xdVLZYlmh_w/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=113715013713551266073
Links to the presenters
https://www.begavalleydata.com.au/
https://www.frrr.org.au

Narrative Expert Series - Best Practices for Leveraging Current Economic Fights
2025-07-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Groundwork Collaborative fights to change economic policy and narratives in order to build public power, break up concentrations of private power, and deliver true opportunity and prosperity for all.
Groundwork’s David Ballard focuses on Narrative Strategies and will share some of his expertise and tools to help us craft effective messaging on the economy. David will use the fight against the Republican tax bill to illustrate how to put these ideas into practice and:

Ensure our communications empower our audiences
Define what constitutes a winning narrative
Effectively talk about the people and institutions breaking our economy

After the presentation, our community will have plenty of time to ask David specifics about these tips and how they might be leveraged for your work.
Groundwork deploys economic research, narrative change, and strategic partnerships to help build an economy that works for all.
To join us on Thursday, July 10th from 10 to 11am Pacific, please click below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfI_BPjI5Ps0oWuutTa8tsaccptmed2iZP2W7KZaKJFLvEtaA/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=113715013713551266073

Learn more at https://groundworkcollaborative.org/

Good Gov LA
2025-07-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Good Gov LA brings together groups focused on healthy democracy across Los Angeles for a chance to connect, create opportunities for partnership and build a supportive network.
Not all of the groups need to be fully aligned and many have special focuses like election reforms, ethics and accountability or public engagement in democracy.
In June, we discussed Democracy Vouchers, getting bills passed in LA and protest rights.
In July, we plan to discuss a mock Civic Assembly in Culver City and how to increase voter engagement.
The group holds monthly zoom meetings the second Thursday of each month at 12pm Pacific and occasional in person networking events.
To join a meeting or learn more, please fill out this FORM.
WEAll California is a partner in this venture. Healthy Democracy and Collaboration are essential pillars to a wellbeing future.

In Person Gathering - Santa Monica & West LA
2025-07-15 16:00 - 20:00 | Sign up for exact location
WEAll California is launching our “Chips, Salsa and Collaboration Tour”! We will be hosting local gatherings in 7 regions this summer.
We are pleased to announce the West Los Angeles gathering.
It will take place on Tuesday, July 15th from 4 to 7pm in Santa Monica.
The event is designed to bring together people who work in different components of a Wellbeing Economy to connect, build relationships, and brainstorm what better collaboration and partnership around specific projects looks like in the future.
The event is co-hosted by Civic Wellbeing Partners and Santa Monica Bay Area Human Relations Council
The event will be a casual discussion with some snacks.
Sign up HERE

WEAll CA In Person - Orange County
2025-07-19 09:30 - 13:30
We are pleased to announce the Orange County gathering of our in person tour of Southern California.
It will take place on Sat, July 19th from 930 to 130 in Santa Ana
The event is designed to bring together people who work in different components of a Wellbeing Economy to connect, build relationships, and brainstorm what better collaboration and partnership around specific projects looks like in the future.
The event is co-hosted by United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals Chapter of Orange County.
The event will be a casual discussion with some lunch available from 12 to 1.
If you would like join us, please fill out this form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCyI-tIbfRVZZvM2eW-nzVFGo6TuXfXuz-ncrNu_Qg1XYxQg/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=113715013713551266073
