A Community-Led Conference
Where we create kindness together!
This day isn't built around speakers or PowerPoint presentations. Instead, it's built around community. Through guided introductions, facilitated discussions and activities, and sharing experiences, we will build meaningful relationships and more kind community.
What We'll Do Together
Connect
Meet others looking for kind community!
Take Space When Needed
Speak, listen, observe, or pass. Step out, move, rest, or take a break anytime.
Join Group Discussions
What are differences between the community you want and your communities as they exist today? What steps, no matter how small, can we take to achieve it?
Come as You Are
Attend alone or with someone you know. You don't need to arrive knowing anyone or knowing what to expect.
Lunch
We'll share a meal!
Build What Comes Next
Build kind community infrastructure beyond the conference through dinners, meetings, practical help, and other ways of showing up for one another.
Who is This Conference For?
This conference brings together people who want to create practical pathways toward kinder and better resourced communities. Anyone who wants communities to be more kind and connected––you are welcome here!
We create safe-enough and kind-enough spaces where people who have experienced isolation, exclusion, harm, or unkindness can have a new experience.
We build communities where people do not need to disclose their experiences or identify themselves in any particular way to have their dignity, boundaries, and participation respected.
You do not need to:
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Have any prior experience
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Identify yourself in any certain way
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Share your story
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Already know anyone there
What You'll Leave With
📚 Printed toolkits to take home
🤝 New community connections
🏘️ Frameworks for building community groups
🧰 Practical tools for communication
🌱 Experience practicing kind skills with other people
🌻 Ways to stay connected together after the conference
People will gain tools that can be used immediately, connections that continue beyond the conference, an renewed hope for whats possible when people come together with the intention of kindness.
Why this Gathering Matters
How do we build communities centered on kindness to help people belong and support one another through the years ahead?
People have needs that are difficult to meet alone—and people also have time, knowledge, skills, relationships, resources, and other forms of help they can contribute.
What if we became better at bringing those things together?
The Kindness Conference is one place to build the relationships, skills, and ways of relating that make kind community possible.