We are building movements and organizing communities for peace, healing, justice, dignity, holistic learning, and critical inquiry.
The mission of Wisdom Projects, Inc. and the Baltimore Wisdom Project (BWP) is to reimagine education and reimagine the world by enhancing the lives of youth and adults with holistic education, intercultural understanding, and anti-oppressive, liberationist thought leadership. We uplift youth and families with community education, health services, and violence prevention.
We are creating and enhancing deep cultures of nurturance that actualize peace and nonviolence.
We are a regional leader in shaping gender-inclusive credible messaging for truly lasting peace. Our work is about eliminating violence, and not just reducing it. This requires a dedication to (1) peace of mind (the internal placidity required to do most things well) and (2) peace of power or nonviolence (the cessation of verbal, physical, emotional, and institutional abuses of power). We facilitate both forms of peace through "community participatory mindfulness™." (Click here for more on community participatory mindfulness.) In our credible messaging, we elevate structured fieldwork strategies instead cults of personality lead by charismatic credible messengers. These cults of personality often privilege leading figures who communicate through machismo. This frequently leads to mixed messages and crossed purposes: on the one hand, leading figures declare that they are working towards nonviolence; but, on the other hand, they engage with community members in ways that reify toxic, violence-enabling or violence-excusing codes and signals. Our emphasis on structured, evidence-based violence elimination and prevention pushes back against this romanticization of favored personalities instead of community-wide peacemaking and de-escalating practices like community participatory mindfulness. We have found that when we focus on the practices (the credible messaging, instead of charismatic messengers) we empower community members to continually enact strategies for themselves and their peers in ways that realize the hope of everyone becoming agents and ambassadors of peace.
We strongly value culturally inclusive communitarianism, which is a worldview that balances individual liberty with collective good. We foster interdependence within our community building so we share and grow in mutually beneficial ways.
The BWP and the Chicago Wisdom Project are the two divisions of Wisdom Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. (Feel free to contact us for supporting information.)
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education Movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013).
Our work is community-affirming, inclusive, evidence-based and radically integrative of a number of healing approaches as we build nurturance cultures that uplift the whole person (mental, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual).
Click here to read about our current programs. Click here to read about our values and practices. We also invite you to visit, read, and share the insightful words of Re-Imagining Magazine, our nonprofit's main publication, a major source of digital thought leadership (with prose and poetry) on holistic education, anti-oppressive advocacy, and liberationist activism in the United States and beyond.
Join our movement for radically-caring, deeply anti-oppressive healing and learning by becoming a monthly Patron on Patreon for just the cost of a few cups of coffee by visiting https://www.patreon.com/wisdomcommunity today.
The mission of Wisdom Projects, Inc. and the Baltimore Wisdom Project (BWP) is to reimagine education and reimagine the world by enhancing the lives of youth and adults with holistic education, intercultural understanding, and anti-oppressive, liberationist thought leadership. We uplift youth and families with community education, health services, and violence prevention.
We are creating and enhancing deep cultures of nurturance that actualize peace and nonviolence.
We are a regional leader in shaping gender-inclusive credible messaging for truly lasting peace. Our work is about eliminating violence, and not just reducing it. This requires a dedication to (1) peace of mind (the internal placidity required to do most things well) and (2) peace of power or nonviolence (the cessation of verbal, physical, emotional, and institutional abuses of power). We facilitate both forms of peace through "community participatory mindfulness™." (Click here for more on community participatory mindfulness.) In our credible messaging, we elevate structured fieldwork strategies instead cults of personality lead by charismatic credible messengers. These cults of personality often privilege leading figures who communicate through machismo. This frequently leads to mixed messages and crossed purposes: on the one hand, leading figures declare that they are working towards nonviolence; but, on the other hand, they engage with community members in ways that reify toxic, violence-enabling or violence-excusing codes and signals. Our emphasis on structured, evidence-based violence elimination and prevention pushes back against this romanticization of favored personalities instead of community-wide peacemaking and de-escalating practices like community participatory mindfulness. We have found that when we focus on the practices (the credible messaging, instead of charismatic messengers) we empower community members to continually enact strategies for themselves and their peers in ways that realize the hope of everyone becoming agents and ambassadors of peace.
We strongly value culturally inclusive communitarianism, which is a worldview that balances individual liberty with collective good. We foster interdependence within our community building so we share and grow in mutually beneficial ways.
The BWP and the Chicago Wisdom Project are the two divisions of Wisdom Projects, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. (Feel free to contact us for supporting information.)
Wisdom Projects, Inc. is grounded in the Wisdom Education Movement. To learn more about this movement, please obtain and read Dr. Richards' Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto (Homebound Publications, 2013).
Our work is community-affirming, inclusive, evidence-based and radically integrative of a number of healing approaches as we build nurturance cultures that uplift the whole person (mental, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual).
Click here to read about our current programs. Click here to read about our values and practices. We also invite you to visit, read, and share the insightful words of Re-Imagining Magazine, our nonprofit's main publication, a major source of digital thought leadership (with prose and poetry) on holistic education, anti-oppressive advocacy, and liberationist activism in the United States and beyond.
Join our movement for radically-caring, deeply anti-oppressive healing and learning by becoming a monthly Patron on Patreon for just the cost of a few cups of coffee by visiting https://www.patreon.com/wisdomcommunity today.
Youth of the 29th Street Community Center in the Barclay Neighborhood of North-Central Baltimore circled up, meditating, and sharing together.