Our Programs and Educational Services
STEM and Healing Arts
Currently we offer free, no-cost, year-round concierge educational services—including an after school program, a summer school program, and institutional support—for the 200-year-old McKim Center, the oldest continuously active community center in the Baltimore City area and (to our knowledge) the United States. Our after school and summer programs are called "STEM and Healing Arts." The curriculum integrates Environmental Justice, Urban Ecology, Life Sciences, and Math with arts education and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). Our McKim programming is also gratefully supported by Dr. Sacoby Wilson's Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH) laboratory in the University of Maryland's School of Public Health. Our work with the McKim community represents our immersive SEL approach. We offer these services in-person, online, and in hybrid engagement that combines face-to-face with online learning.
Journeymakers
In partnership with Christina Marsh, a Healing Arts Fellow of the Baltimore Wisdom Project, “Journeymakers” is a new project-based SEL mentoring and restorative justice initiative that works with students at Towson High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, who struggle within the school's discipline system. Students become “journeymakers” as they create ongoing visual narratives with photography, text, collage, video, and multimedia that embody their ongoing character-building, team-playing, and SEL development. Students share their projects in showcases to the school via video, photography or multimedia so that they are seen, heard, and valued as vital members of the learning community.
Meditations
We provide online, guided meditations for forty minutes each session. The purpose of the meditations is to offer care and solace to participants in challenging times and to help participants release anxiety and stress as they find calm and cultivate affirmation for themselves and others.
Conversational Healing
We provide free, no-cost community counseling by phone and online to address behavioral health problems that may arise in the home, at work, in school, or during crises. Our community counseling also offers constituents resources and tools to navigate life's obstacles in accessing health services, housing, and other systemic issues.
Wisdom Sharing
We provide wisdom sharing (professional development, training, consultation, and skill-sharing) to teachers, administrators, parents, students, and community advocates to uplift and inspire with ideals and strategies for holistic education. Currently, we are humbled to work with the Friends School of Baltimore.
Communications and Engagement
We provide extensive justice-centered social media engagement through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Medium (the latter of which will debut soon). Much of this communications and engagement includes original reporting and research-based messaging that amplifies the topics relevant to the under-resourced communities and people that we serve.
"JEDI" Consultations
We offer consultations on "JEDI" principles—meaning, principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion—to corporations and businesses to enhance workplace culture, hiring, and climate. Our "JEDI" consultations combine conflict transformation, mediation, morale enhancement, and conceptual redesigning. We are adept at liaising with any division of a workplace, from the executive leadership to all employees. We are sensitive to a company's culture and traditions while recommended highly considered and well-bought-in changes. We accentuate the positive while offering affirmative, hopeful, and caring solutions, strategies, and systems for the improvement of a business' commitment to "JEDI" principles.
Multimedia
We make multimedia and video by commission to teach elements of community counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, restorative practices, restorative justice, mindfulness, peacemaking, and caretaking in communities. Click here, here, and here for examples of our multimedia and videographic engagement.
Currently we offer free, no-cost, year-round concierge educational services—including an after school program, a summer school program, and institutional support—for the 200-year-old McKim Center, the oldest continuously active community center in the Baltimore City area and (to our knowledge) the United States. Our after school and summer programs are called "STEM and Healing Arts." The curriculum integrates Environmental Justice, Urban Ecology, Life Sciences, and Math with arts education and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). Our McKim programming is also gratefully supported by Dr. Sacoby Wilson's Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH) laboratory in the University of Maryland's School of Public Health. Our work with the McKim community represents our immersive SEL approach. We offer these services in-person, online, and in hybrid engagement that combines face-to-face with online learning.
Journeymakers
In partnership with Christina Marsh, a Healing Arts Fellow of the Baltimore Wisdom Project, “Journeymakers” is a new project-based SEL mentoring and restorative justice initiative that works with students at Towson High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, who struggle within the school's discipline system. Students become “journeymakers” as they create ongoing visual narratives with photography, text, collage, video, and multimedia that embody their ongoing character-building, team-playing, and SEL development. Students share their projects in showcases to the school via video, photography or multimedia so that they are seen, heard, and valued as vital members of the learning community.
Meditations
We provide online, guided meditations for forty minutes each session. The purpose of the meditations is to offer care and solace to participants in challenging times and to help participants release anxiety and stress as they find calm and cultivate affirmation for themselves and others.
Conversational Healing
We provide free, no-cost community counseling by phone and online to address behavioral health problems that may arise in the home, at work, in school, or during crises. Our community counseling also offers constituents resources and tools to navigate life's obstacles in accessing health services, housing, and other systemic issues.
Wisdom Sharing
We provide wisdom sharing (professional development, training, consultation, and skill-sharing) to teachers, administrators, parents, students, and community advocates to uplift and inspire with ideals and strategies for holistic education. Currently, we are humbled to work with the Friends School of Baltimore.
Communications and Engagement
We provide extensive justice-centered social media engagement through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Medium (the latter of which will debut soon). Much of this communications and engagement includes original reporting and research-based messaging that amplifies the topics relevant to the under-resourced communities and people that we serve.
"JEDI" Consultations
We offer consultations on "JEDI" principles—meaning, principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion—to corporations and businesses to enhance workplace culture, hiring, and climate. Our "JEDI" consultations combine conflict transformation, mediation, morale enhancement, and conceptual redesigning. We are adept at liaising with any division of a workplace, from the executive leadership to all employees. We are sensitive to a company's culture and traditions while recommended highly considered and well-bought-in changes. We accentuate the positive while offering affirmative, hopeful, and caring solutions, strategies, and systems for the improvement of a business' commitment to "JEDI" principles.
Multimedia
We make multimedia and video by commission to teach elements of community counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, restorative practices, restorative justice, mindfulness, peacemaking, and caretaking in communities. Click here, here, and here for examples of our multimedia and videographic engagement.