BAY-Peace offers a variety of services for the community to help support our mission of empowering youth to transform and heal from militarism, violence and trauma and to actualize our vision of using creative expression and holistic education towards Transformation, Healing and Wellness. Our community offerings integrate the use of political and popular education techniques, critical dialogue and liberation art as tools to build consciousness and help address issues/struggles related to violence, healing and wellness.
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WELLNESS SERVICES
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Our “Circulos” are trauma-informed “group therapy” type sessions that integrate indigenous and Restorative justice circle practices as well as a community based art to unpack personal struggles while simultaneously building a collective commitment towards healing/transformation.
Circulos are a minimum 2-part series: Community Building Circulos use interactive arts-based activities and dialogue to build a stronger sense of trust, solidarity and understanding among participants. This prepares participants for a more openness and vulnerability during the Healing Circulo Healing Circulos combine a restorative justice-styled circle with art-making to help transmute the energy that emerges when unpacking our struggles. 
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In deepening our commitment to healing justice, BAY-Peace has built a network of healers and service providers who we strive to make available to our constituents and community members at little to no cost. Services are contingent upon providers’ availability.
Arts & CraftsBAY-Peace believes in the transformative and healing power of the arts. We have a plethora of art and crafts supplies/activities that we can engage youth and community members in.
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Health & Wellness Workshops
Our wellness workshops integrate holistic education, grounding practices and mindfulness techniques to help better support the well-being of workshop participants.
- 10 Dimensions of Wellness - explores holistic wellness in our own lives and how we can begin cultivating well-being in the 10 dimensions outlined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and expanded upon by BAY-Peace.
- Embodied healing & Transformation - uses Somatics, theater and movement as a vehicle for jumpstarting our journeys toward embodied healing and transformative practices in our daily routines.
- Creative & Cultural wellness - explores the intersections between art and culture and how they play a fundamental role in our individual and collective sense of wellness and belonging.
- Social Wellness - explores concepts like boundaries, consent and non-violent communication to help participants build healthy social skills.
- Mental/Emotional - explores the ways that our experiences impact our emotional and mental health, as well as specific practices that we can utilize to help de-stress and practice self-regulation during times of heightened stress
- Spiritual Wellness - helps participants develop a healthier spiritual foundation that helps them to feel grounded, empowered and in tune with their core values as well a greater purpose that they are devoted to.
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Socio-Political Education workshops
Our political education workshops integrate both popular and political education techniques to help participants develop their critical consciousness around particular issues and make connections to the struggles or issues they see in their everyday lives.
- Intro to Militarization (Military Industrial Complex) exposes the ways militarization is embedded within the capitalist and governmental institutions that disproportionately impact BIPOC communities in the US and around the world.
- From Imperialism institutional racism explores how US imperialism has played a fundamental role in institutional Racism that is present but not very visible today.
- Truth in Recruitment gives an in-depth look at the pros and cons of recruitment and exposes to what measures the government will go to sustain their power in the US and abroad.
- Knowing Government structures helps participant understand the various government structures of civic leaders from the local to the federal level.
trainings
Our trainings are primarily skills-based, where participants learn very specific skills that can support their work in the community or their wellness in general.
- Non-Violent Communication & De-Escalation - This training provides the core Nonviolent Crisis Communication content where you will learn skills to prevent or de-escalate a crisis, safely respond to crisis behavior and to assess when safety interventions are necessary.
- Community Based Art - This training provides participants with a deeper understanding of how to conduct community based art projects using various art modalities, from theater, to writing, to visual art and more.
- Dimensions of Wellness Life skills - Narcan distribution, Budgeting 101, Kick-boxing & Self-Defense (Life skills workshops are primarily led by local community partners or organizations whom we lean on often for trainings with our own members)
While BAY-Peace does not necessarily charge for community offerings, we ask that our collaborators consider the cost of our offerings. Our primary considerations must factor in the cost of our offerings and the capacity of our team members commitments.
