Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈

Our mission is to activate love and connection for the purpose of dismantling the toxic cultural conditions of inequity and isolation.

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Final workshop day for the Relational Summit!

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Getting ready for our first Relational Summit workshops.

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Relational Summit starts today!

Free keynote Friday 3/31 @ 6:30p in City Hall: “Fighting Time”

Other ticketed events will take place at the Bloomington Center for Connection and @dimension_mill

[The Mill @dimension_mill]

@MidwestStartups Let's win the Final Four against Illinois!

@DianeChelius @DigitalReachB2B @DamnGoodDeets @mlamons1 @CORTFurniture @WoodMillCreate @c_hopped @youllLikeLinton @KristyLewellyn @ridwan_zaxo @haikubrian @keithrealty1 @KylePCline @refinerycenter @ENT_icq @INfuzeIndiana @CC_Bloomington

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

If you’re not already following @ErinInTheMorn for updates and inspiration on trans rights, now is the time

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

There are over 370 anti-trans bills. It can be extremely hard to track them all and make sense of the key battles.

So I have written a legislative digest on general trends and where we stand.

I hope this is helpful.

Subscribe to support my work.

https://t.co/qwfHusX7Dw

[LaShawn C. Williams @DrLaShawn_]

It’s not every day you get to nerd out with the dude you quote from 13th about the book he wrote that’s helping you realize you’re so very burnt out from academia but love the classroom enough to commit to intentional self-care as an act of radical hope. Thanks @TheTattooedProf

[Kevin Makice @kmakice]

This is an important insight:

We need mutual relationships, more than the resources those relationships might share.

Our growth with others is how we survive and cultivate opportunities to thrive.

#RCT

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

This is important! Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health—and May Save Lives | WIRED https://t.co/uFPny1UYoU

[Amanda Knox @amandaknox]

A few months ago, in that blurry haze of new motherhood, I left my infant daughter Eureka on the couch for just a few seconds. She rolled and slipped and tumbled to the floor, hitting her head, then burst out crying. /a thread to #SaveMelissaLucio

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Mutual Meltdowns

We are tired. We need healing. It’s impossible to rush wellness.

Our collective pain is soothed through messy and authentic mutuality.

https://t.co/lXAjthZL6b

[ZERO TO THREE @ZEROTOTHREE]

"Mounting scientific evidence is telling us that the foundations of lifelong health are built during the prenatal period and early infancy."

Jack P. Shonkoff of @HarvardCenter on how these disparities should be an important wake-up call: https://t.co/iAVH9R56rs via @sciam

[International Center for Growth In Connection @GrowthInConnect]

Check out the new Relational-Cultural Eco-curriculum, Refugee Resettlement curriculum, & video on addressing Radical Extremism -- all amazing work from RCT colleagues in MN and beyond! #RCT #SocialWorkTwitter #RelationalCulturalTheory https://t.co/v9XAq7bNQx

[International Center for Growth In Connection @GrowthInConnect]

Challenges and Benefits of Virtual Therapeutic Relationships -- Join us this Friday!

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Another opportunity to share with the RCT community!

[International Center for Growth In Connection @GrowthInConnect]

Please join us for our next colloquium -- Friday Feb 11! To register, visit: https://t.co/Kfbicn4sHi

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Tickets now on sale for the third Relational Summit on April 27-30, 2022 in Bloomington, Indiana.

As it stands right now, both in-person and online participation will be supported. We hope to see you in 85 days!

https://t.co/TLDuTQHN3Z

[Blair LM Kelley, PhD @profblmkelley]

I worry that when we say “check on your friends” who are depressed, we are profoundly misunderstanding depression. Again.

[Bloomington Center for Connection 🏳️‍🌈 @CC_Bloomington]

Looking forward to this!

[International Center for Growth In Connection @GrowthInConnect]

Join us on January 28th for a powerful conversation between Amy Makice and Donald Griffin Jr. on creating conscious, courageous connections.

RSVP: https://t.co/8b8U9ilxVR

[New Hope For Families @NewHope_Shelter]

Bloomington shelters are struggling to meet the demands of our unhoused population. To that end, our upcoming expansion and relocation will increase our shelter capacity from 7 to 12 families.

[SF @FinnFinnshannon]

Some morning wisdom from @harrietschwartz #RCT #WeGrowInRelationships