Meet our Team
Freedom Project strengthens our community through supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers. We offer trainings in concrete skills of Nonviolent Communication and mindfulness leading to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones and the community. Our work addresses the healing of relationships ruptured by violence and the forging of community founded on genuine safety through connection.
We dream of a world where each person is held in the circle of humanity, where every individual experiences a deep knowing that all members of the human family belong to and are connected to each other. We dream of communities and nations dedicated to nonviolence as a soul force for the healing of all relationships fractured by injury, violence, anger, and mistrust. The Freedom Project offers a new vision of what is possible.
Connection and Community. Freedom Project believes that community created through authentic connection engenders genuine safety. We are grounded in the belief that all human beings are precious and have a place at the table.
Compassion. Freedom Project believes in the power of compassion as a healing force on the planet. We believe that through empathy we can connect with the essential beauty within ourselves and others and in this way serve the world.
Mindfulness. Freedom Project values mindfulness as a way of living so that we act with intentionality and care.
Sustainability. Freedom Project believes in creating a sustainable organization which manifests in the way we handle and care for our material and human resources.
Contribution. Freedom Project values and ask for commitment and contribution with the idea that it is through giving to something beyond ourselves that we create meaning in our lives and express the fullness of our humanity.
Integrity. Freedom Project is committed to integrity in all dealings and will make decisions based on principles rather than personalities.
Diversity. Freedom Project is guided by the belief that it is our differences, such as race, class, gender, sexual orientation, faith, or whether we are a returnee or have never served time, that make us strong. It is this ability to hold differences with compassion and understanding that defines us most deeply as an organization.
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