Monthly Community Connection March
2025-03-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
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 | Zoom
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 | Zoom
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

Policy Discussion - The Future of Work
2025-03-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
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 | 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.

Policy Deep Dive and Action Event - CA Utilities
2025-03-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
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 | Zoom
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 | Zoom

Monthly Community Connection
2025-04-08 16:00 - 17:00 | 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

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 | 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 | 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.
