Hello Friends,

Thank you for considering a donation to help The Relational Center continue to do its radical work.

Once again, as some of you might know I've been working with The Relational Center (TRC) for a few years now and have recently had the honor of joining their Board.

As a new mama, I'm understanding mental health and wellness in a completely different way. Feelings of isolation are common and connection is not only a soothing balm but a salvation during these tender and critical times. This organization understands the urgency of creating connection amidst of time of isolation and cultural polarization. TRC holds the center for many many folks.

A little more about TRC:

TRC operates from a justice-wellness framework offering access to long term individual and group counseling for those that don't meet the standards of the Department of Mental Health and those that could not normally afford long term psychotherapy. TRC also provides meditation, yoga and breathwork groups, acknowledging that treating the soma is critical in addressing holistic health. Additionally TRC trains it's clinicians that psychotherapy is political work, we bring the larger historical cultural influences of our human experience into our individual and group work and are transparent about our values of interdependence, diversity and radial inclusion.

As one example of clinical orientation, we believe that an individual's experience of depression or anxiety for example is often a natural response within a culture that urges personal material success and therefore not self-created but co-created within the our conditioned myths of meritocracy. To seek support for depression and anxiety is an act of leadership, a step toward awakening and de-conditioning.

TRC seeks to untether its client members from these cultural narratives of self-worth that would dispirit and depress and instead promote the essential value of relationship. We believe that by cultivating relational values, we create necessary conditions for health, equality and sustainability. So we teach and facilitate personal, interpersonal and social practices that support and grow strong, resilient relationships.

Because TRC does not operate on government funding, it is reliant solely upon the generosity of its wider community.

Please consider donation, no contribution is too small!

With warm regards and deep gratitude,

Gabrielle

"The mission of The Relational Center is to lead a shift to a culture that values empathy, diversity, and interdependency. We envision a world of thriving communities that value social health, mutual aid, equity, and sustainability; where everyone feels a sense of belonging and has access to care and support, as well as the resources needed for community wellbeing."
The Relational Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
We appreciate your tax-deductible donation.

Every year we host a year-end appeal that offers our supporters one last opportunity to make a tax-deductible donation to The Relational Center before the end of the calendar year.  Please help us reach our 2019 goal of $35,000 before midnight on December 31st.  With your support, we can continue to provide counseling for social justice to embolden individuals to build stronger, more empathic communities that can change the world.