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 Community Inspired Action (CIA) is a new co-creative vision for community, one that is centered around radical, spirit-based activism. CIA is a space for those who identify as spiritual-not-religious and who see spirituality as innately connected to social justice and activism. We engage in a spirituality that is Earth-based, arising from authenticity, embodied, and actively raising consciousness on an individual and societal level. We engage in social justice work that defends and lifts up the human rights of all people and protects our sacred Earth. 

As a community, we seek to co-create a world of positive change, to embody courage, and to materialize our purpose individually and together. We lean into discomfort in order to grow. We honor our innate wisdom to guide our action. We embrace our wildness to challenge the status quo. We gather together to weep, to yell, to breathe, to ground, to dance, to come alive, to celebrate, to heal, and to inspire authentic hope. 

​Come join us as we create a new world.

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Gatherings are held at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, MI
on the second Saturday of every month from 10:00am-11:30am 
Community gatherings may include talks, readings, spoken word poetry,
​music, ritual, meditative movement, and organized action.
Suggested donation: $10-30
This is an ever-changing, ever-growing project that is very much a work in progress. Come be part of the creation and evolution of this new endeavor!

How we create change: 

• We speak and write and share in order to change the narrative, knowing that new narratives lead to paradigm shifts​
• We challenge the status quo by speaking our truth and living our authentic lives
• We empower the historically marginalized to create our future through their vision. We stand to lift up the voice of the voiceless; people of color, indigenous peoples, LGBTQ, and women. 
• We support and inspire each other to take action together with the broader community to build on powerful social justice work already happening. We ignite additional action as needed.
• We hold a space for being, for embracing the unknown, for listening, for uplifting, for loving​  ​​

"My understanding of spirituality is that it means living life fully and courageously. I opt for that. Whatever the price. The French have a saying, living "sur la marge", living in the margin. That is where I have chosen to live...But there's not a lot of insurance there. I think more and more young people are being pushed to the margins in our time, and that can be a wonderful way to live: on the margins." -Matthew Fox

“To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.” -Rebecca Solnit