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# Windcall Institute

Healing Trauma, Embodying Liberation

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- [A Love Gift  on Giving Tuesday](https://windcall.org/2020/12/01/a-love-gift-on-giving-tuesday/) - Gift LOVE to organizers today! My name is Reynaldo Leon, a 2010 Windcall alum, and this year I committed to sustaining Windcall on a monthly basis. Please consider making a LOVE GIFT today on Giving Tuesday for Windcall’s 30th Anniversary Love Campaign. Let me share why this gift is so important to me: When I
- [Windcall is a Rare and Precious Gift](https://windcall.org/2020/03/06/windcall-is-a-rare-and-precious-gift/) - Join me in celebrating Windcall's 30th year anniversary by donating to the Resilience Fund. Prior to doing my residency, I was running myself into the ground going from one campaign to the next. I had no other identity except my work life and doing things for the benefit of others, never for myself. Then in 2016
- [Organizers Sustain Each Other With Windcall](https://windcall.org/2020/02/09/organizers-sustain-each-other-with-windcall/) - To My Fellow Alumni: Join me in donating to Windcall today! I was recently reminded of my time as a Windcall Resident so I have joined the team of alumni ambassadors seeking donations for the Resilience Fund during the 30th anniversary.I'll tell you my story:I went to Windcall in Montana in 1995 after transitioning from an organizing project and
- [Sustaining Resilience for 30 Years](https://windcall.org/2020/02/09/sustaining-resilience-for-30-years/) - Join me in donating to Windcall today! As Windcall's first alum I am very excited to see the impact Windcall's residency and staying power programs have had on many amazing leaders. Celebrate Windcall’s 30th year anniversary with me by donating to the Resilience Fund. Which provides an opportunity for rest, reflection, and rejuvenation for movement leaders from around the country.Thirty-one years ago
- [1989-2006: Sabbaticals as Practice](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/1989-2005-sabbaticals-as-practice/) - The practice and policy of taking a sabbatical slowly took hold. The Windcall Residency established a new model that convinced organizers to take a sabbatical for the first time. Initially, movement folks were resistant to the idea of taking time off and organizations did not have the resources or the culture of instituting sabbatical policies.
- [2019: Committing to POC Organizers](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2019-committing-to-poc-organizers/) - With the rise of white supremacy and increased violence against communities of color, Windcall renews its commitment to hold healing and transformative spaces for POC organizers. In the Fall, 2019, we hosted our first all African-American/Indigenous cohort. In 2019, all POC residents included: M Adams, Freedom Inc.. WICharlene Carruthers, BYP100, ILCarlos Duarte, Mi Familia Vota,
- [2018: Debuting Mindful Breathers](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2018-debuting-mindful-breathers/) - Long aware that many organizers are limited from taking sabbaticals by caretaking responsibilities while they raise a family or care for a family member, Windcall started offering one-week Mindful Breathers. Just enough time to catch their breath alone, or together with their family. Windcall now hosts Breathers in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains, in the Connecticut
- [Shower Windcall with Love until February 14](https://windcall.org/2020/01/03/post-title-here/) - We have already raised $250K and need our alumni and movement family to fill the gap of our $300K organizational goal. The funds will allow leaders the opportunity to retreat and renew, to be better able to create imaginative and visionary change. Until February 14th , we are Showering Windcall with Love! Join the celebration and
- [Residency Applications](https://windcall.org/2019/12/30/post-title-goes-here-2/) - “There is a difference in being in the expansiveness of space; there is something magical about pausing and breathing. How do we integrate the pause when we are deep in the work? We are not maximizing our full potential unless we pause to answer a question from a liberated stance. What does it take with
- [1989: Pioneering Rest & Reflection](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/1989-pioneering-rest-reflection/) - Windcall was founded in 1989 by long-time social justice funders Albert and Susan Wells (Abelard Foundation of the Common Counsel Foundation) and housed at their ranch in Montana. They were spurred by having met many organizers who were exhausted, or who had left the field prematurely due to burnout or because of coming to a
- [Fall 1989: The First Resident](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/fall-1989-the-first-resident/) - The first Resident was Anthony Thigpenn of SCOPE / AGENDA in Los Angeles.
- [1990: Focusing on Frontline Organizers](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/1990-focusing-on-frontline-organizers/) - Windcall was the first program of its kind for social justice organizers and leaders. It stood out for its prioritization of organizers, both community and labor organizers; its national scope, including in regions where organizers have few leadership opportunities and great challenges in organizing for social change; and eventually honing its focus on organizers of
- [A Holistic Approach to Healing & Resilience](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/a-holistic-approach-to-healing-resilience/) - The program soon proved to be transformative for organizer after organizer – far beyond the expectations of the Wells’ and the social change leaders serving on the Windcall Selection Committee. With feedback from Windcall alumni, Susan’s background in psychology, and staffer Joy Sue Hutchinson’ experience as a community organizer with Association of Community Organizations for Reform
- [2006: Stories of Changing Course](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2006-stories-of-changing-course/) - Susan Wells, at the urging of Windcall Residents, wrote a book, Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal, which tells the story of the first seventeen years of Windcall and the organizers who were transformed by it.
- [2006: Transition](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2006-transition/) - Susan and Albie retired in 2005 and a group of alumni committed to its mission fundraised to continue the project as the Windcall Institute. The group strove to maintain the integrity of the original model as self-driven exploration, while identifying the “Windcall practices” listed previously to be replicated in new sites. Alum Holly Fincke was
- [2010: Growing Capacity & Diversity](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2010-growing-capacity-and-diversity/) - From 2006 onwards, Windcall cultivated meaningful partnerships with programs and individuals who donated facilities, land and staffing: Stone Circles, NC; Pie in the Sky, VT; Blue Mountain Center, NY; Tunitas Creek Ranch, CA. Merrill Weyerhaeuser and Pat Welly offered their home in the Hood Canal, WA, surrounded by forests, mountains, and water. Twice a year,
- [2013: Staying Power As A Journey](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2010-growing-capacity-and-diversity-2/) - Alumni organized weekend-long gatherings in the Central Valley of California and in North Carolina, as well as shorter get-togethers elsewhere to create connections between organizers who were focused on sustainability and transformative leadership. The conversation on self-care deepened and alumni saw the need to continue advocating for organizers’ healing spaces and learning new practices. The
- [2014: 25th Anniversary Celebration](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2014-25th-anniversary-celebration/) - Over the course of 2014, Windcall alumni, allies, and partners celebrated its 25th anniversary and provided multiple ways for everyone to share healing and transformative practices. Our Cultivate Your Staying Power Poster, designed by alum Fabricio Rodriguez, has become a favorite reminder of the varied and simply accessible ways organizers can stay resilient, whole and
- [2015: New Partnerships & Leadership](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2015-new-partnerships-and-leadership/) - In 2015, Windcall partnered with the Four Freedoms Fund to sponsor residency opportunities for Immigrant Rights organizers. Groundswell Fund joined the following year to offer more capacity building experiences for their Reproductive Justice grantees. These partnerships increase Windcall's capacity to support frontline organizers in times of crises. Every year, the alumni board convenes to determine
- [2016: Cared For By Organizers](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2015-new-partnerships-and-leadership-2/) - In partnership with the idyllic inn Rancho Gallina in New Mexico, Windcall holds the residencies at a movement home for the first time. Owners and hosts Leslie Moody and Mitch Ackerman organized in labor for decades before retiring and deciding to contribute to the movement by hosting retreats in their environmentally-upgraded ranch outside of Santa
- [2017-18: Staying Power Webinars & Trainings](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2015-new-partnerships-and-leadership-2-2/) - Responding to alumni's interests for continued learning of wellness and healing justice, Windcall holds several webinars per year focused on various transformative practices. Alumni organizers often facilitate these sessions, grounded in their lived experiences. A rapid response grant from the San Francisco Foundation supported Windcall in forming a training team and designing a curriculum to
- [2020: 30th Anniversary Video](https://windcall.org/2020/01/14/2019-committing-to-poc-organizers-2/) - As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations, Windcall is debuting a new video highlighting the journey from trauma healing to transformation of two Bay Area organizers who did their Windcall Residency in 2018. Check out the video here and join us here in raising $50K for our Albert & Susan Wells Resilience Fund. Our anniversary

## Pages

- [](https://windcall.org/) - In a time of deep strain and uncertainty, Windcall offers space to rest, reflect, and continue forward with care. 2026 -2027 COHORT RESIDENTS PORTAL 2026 -2027 BREATHER RESIDENTS PORTAL DONATE
- [Cohort Residency Portal](https://windcall.org/cohortportal/)
- [Past Awardees](https://windcall.org/residencies/awardees/past-awardees/) - Windcall Residencies are a healing (and leadership evolution) process that places full faith in human-beings ability to heal themselves – when we are ready and have conditions that promote well-being and spaciousness. Fall 2025 Residents Amaya Jennifer Lin has been building coalitions and running campaigns in worker, climate, and student movements for almost 25 years. She
- [Breather Residency Portal](https://windcall.org/breatherportal/)
- [Residency FAQs](https://windcall.org/residencies/faqs-on-windcall-residencies/) - Why Windcall Might Be Right For You During these times, now more than ever, movement organizers understand the need for healing from the impacts of trauma due to the unjust circumstances we are constantly struggling with, as well as strengthening mind/body/spirit for long term sustainability in movement work. We see self and community care as
- [Healing Justice Resources](https://windcall.org/resources/allied-programs/) - The following programs can support you and organizers with whom you work to reflect, build resiliency, and foster transformative leadership capacities within a framework for healing justice. Remember, we offer these as a resource. We do not particularly endorse any one and are not liable for any services rendered If you know of a similar
- [About Us](https://windcall.org/about/board-staff/) - Windcall is built by the movement, for the movement. Windcall Institute Board of Directors The Windcall Institute's board of directors is a leadership, governance and fundraising body made up of Windcall alumni. The Board represents and demonstrates our alumni commitment to the role Windcall plays in social justice movements around the country. Lisa Cooks Esteban
- [Residency Awardees](https://windcall.org/residencies/awardees/) - Spring 2026 Residents Spring 2026 Windcall ResidentsDownload Windcall Alumni from 2013 to Fall 2025
- [Staying Power Program](https://windcall.org/stayingpower/) - Windcall's Role In This Moment Radical transformative organizing is needed for the global crisis. We need radical care, connection and love for ourselves, families, folks and planet during this ongoing pandemic and global climate of chaos. Windcall offers spaces for reflection and practice together in beloved community through our Staying Power program. SEASONAL PRACTICE SESSIONS
- [Donate Now](https://windcall.org/donate-online/) - Organizers need our love and support Whether it be a one time donation, a monthly commitment, a residency sponsorship, or a plan to bequeath a home for retreats someday, each gift of support contributes to holding organizers on the frontline of struggles in beloved community.
- [Selection Committee Portal](https://windcall.org/scportal/)
- [Embodying Liberation:](https://windcall.org/embodyingliberation/) - A Transformative Retreat Experience In-Person and Virtual "Embodying Liberation" Retreat Offerings Description Windcall Institute’s customizable in-person and virtual retreat offering for building Staying Power: "Embodying Liberation: A Transformative Experience" provides structured yet spacious time and resources to nourish and replenish bodies, minds and spirits in beloved community. Our facilitation team guides organizers through our signature
- [Site Partners](https://windcall.org/residencies/site-partners/) - The Windcall Residency Program takes place in various locations around the country, all immersed in nature. Each one provides unique opportunities for organizers to engage in the transformative healing practices that make Windcall so impactful. Some sites are generously donated for Windcall’s use (click here if you’re interested in being a site partner); others are
- [Windcall's Vision](https://windcall.org/about/vision/) - Staying Power for the Long Haul Windcall Institute supports and sustains labor and community organizers through our Residency and Staying Power programs. We create the conditions for leaders to pause, reflect, and return to their work with clarity, creativity, and purpose. When our organizations are more life-giving, imaginative, and grounded in vision, our movements can:
- [Windcall Residency](https://windcall.org/residency/) - Pagina Web en Espanol GENERAL APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED Questions? Email residencies@windcall.org Watch Previous Info Sessions The Windcall Institute has awarded Residencies for over three decades, offering lifetime changing experiences to over 750 community and labor organizers from around the country and all sectors of the social justice movement. The Windcall Residency is a nine-month
- [Renewed and Rising Practice Day - Registration Closed](https://windcall.org/randr/) - As spring arrives and the world turns toward new growth, Renewed & Rising invites organizers and supporters into a day of rest, reflection, and renewal. In a moment when so many are stretched thin, this gathering offers care in both directions: space to be nourished, and an opportunity to sustain Windcall’s 36-year legacy of supporting
- [Registration is closed. Please stay tuned for future programing!](https://windcall.org/randrreg/) - As spring arrives and the world turns toward new growth, Renewed & Rising invites organizers and supporters into a day of rest, reflection, and renewal. In a moment when so many are stretched thin, this gathering offers care in both directions: space to be nourished, and an opportunity to sustain Windcall’s 36-year legacy of supporting
- [Residency Program Application](https://windcall.org/residency/windcall-application/) - 2026-2027 RESIDENCIES & MINDFUL BREATHERS PROGRAM APPLICATION Applications will open on December 10th, 2025 and close March 20th, 2026. If English is not your first language, please submit the application in your language. A Spanish application will be provided. Before applying, make sure to read the description of the Windcall Residency Program and the Frequently Asked Questions.
- [Windcall Coaching](https://windcall.org/coaching/) - Supporting movement leaders to find balance and sustainability. In recent years, the Windcall Institute has added a coaching program for its Residents in order to assist them in preparing for and integrating their Windcall Residency experience. Residents are provided a coaching award from Windcall to pay for up to six sessions with a coach who
- [Windcall En Español](https://windcall.org/windcall-en-espanol/) - Estamos felices de proveer algunos recursos en Español y estamos continuamente traduciendo nuevo contenido. Esta página contiene los recursos y servicios que proveemos en Español al momento. Ahora más que nunca, les organizadores del movimiento necesitan sanar de los impactos del trauma causado por las circunstancias injustas contra las que luchan continuamente. Merecen tiempo para
- [Who We Support](https://windcall.org/about/who-we-support/) - Windcall believes that organizing is fundamental to building strong movements rooted in communities of color and low-income communities. Windcall invests in community and labor organizers – often those who are unsung – committed to building bases, power and movements. Our Residents: Many are people of color (68%) and women (73%). 51% are women of color.Most
- [Support Windcall](https://windcall.org/support/ways/) - Windcall Institute is a gift from the movement to the movement. Windcall’s budget stands on a sustainable platform made up of four major sources of income. We are proud that grassroots fundraising is a substantial part of our budget. Foundation Funding & Grants: 62% In-kind Donations of Residency sites: 17% Earned Revenue: 11% Individual Donations:
- [Contact Us](https://windcall.org/contact-us/) - Windcall Institute 1212 Broadway Ste 700Oakland, CA 94612 info@windcall.org If you would like to make a donation by check, please make the check out to Windcall Institute and mail to: 1212 Broadway Ste 700Oakland, CA 94612 Thank you!
- [Sponsor a Residency](https://windcall.org/support/sponsor-a-residency/) - How to sponsor a Windcall Residency Who can sponsor a Windcall Residency? Social, economic and environmental justice organizations and labor unionsFoundations and individual donorsGroups of Windcall alumni or other groups of supportersLeadership programs/awards that want to enhance their program with a Windcall Residency How are Sponsorships designated? As a Sponsor, you can designate the kinds
- [Be a Site Partner](https://windcall.org/support/site-partner/) - Do you have a vacation home that is going unused for several weeks of the year? The social justice organizers who are Windcall Residents benefit from the generosity of allies who have graciously donated the use of houses, land, and services for Windcall Residencies. The giving goes both ways. Fueling the renewal, resiliency, and transformative
- [At Home Residency](https://windcall.org/at-home-residency/)
- [Windcall 2024 Year In Review](https://windcall.org/2024-year-in-review/) - 2024 Year In ReviewDownload
- [Northeast Election Decompression 2024](https://windcall.org/northeast-election-decompression-2024/) - Registration is closed for this retreat. Please contact Jayeesha (jayeesha@windcall.org) with any questions! A post-election, weekend retreat at the Uplands Center in Walton, NY intended to provide rest, reflection, and resilience practice after a high-stakes electoral season. Facilitated and self-guided activities, room and board included from dinner on Friday November 15th through lunch on Sunday
- [Waitlist Registration](https://windcall.org/waitlist-registration/)
- [West Coast Election Decompression 2024](https://windcall.org/west-coast-election-decompression-2024/) - RETREAT REGISTRATION IS FULL please contact jayeesha@windcall.org to be placed on waitlist. A post-election, weekend retreat at Marconi Conference Center in Tomales Bay, CA intended to provide rest, reflection, and resilience practice after a high-stakes electoral season. Facilitated and self-guided activities, room and board included from dinner on Friday December 6th through lunch on Sunday
- [Winter Solstice Practice + Residency Info Session #1](https://windcall.org/winter-solstice-practice-residency-info-session-1/) - Friday, December 13th 2024 Winter Practice Session Ground yourself for the winter with a somatics practice facilitated by Anjali Sawhney (see bio below). 1pm ET / 12pm CT / 11am MT / 10am PT immediately followed by Windcall 2024 Residency Application Info Session #1 2:15pm ET / 1:15pm CT / 12:15am MT / 11:15am PT Hear from
- [Join Our Team](https://windcall.org/hiring/) - We are committed to building a healthy, vibrant and deeply caring justice movement stewarding our communities and planet with love and intention. Windcall Institute is a 35 year old healing justice organization whose mission is to support organizers through an arc of transformation from healing trauma to embodying liberation. We are not hiring at this
- [Info Session #3: Advice from Alumni](https://windcall.org/info-session-3/) - Hear from alumni to hear about what they wish they had know before applying. You'll have an opportunity to ask them questions about the Windcall program and the application process. Windcall 2024 Residency Application Info Session #3 Thusday, March 14 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT
- [Seeking Development Consultant](https://windcall.org/development-consultant/) - About Windcall The Windcall Institute cultivates healing justice among community and labor organizers and their organizations working for social justice in low-income and communities of color. Our flagship Residencies Program provides respite to cultivate spaciousness and access to mind/ body/ spirit practices. Our Staying Power Program gives ongoing learning to healing trauma and embodying liberation
- [Info Session #2: Applying as a Practice of Self-Love and Reflection](https://windcall.org/applying-as-a-practice-of-self-love-and-reflection/) - Hear from Windcall Coaches about how Windall Residencies are a space of self-love and reflection. You'll have an opportunity to ask coaches questions about the Windcall coaching program and ask staff about the application process. Windcall 2024 Residency Application Info Session #2 Wednesday, February 14 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am
- [Breathe Practitioners at Windcall](https://windcall.org/breathe/)
- [Alumni Beacons Circles](https://windcall.org/abc/) - join the windcall alumni beacons circle now
- [Annual Reports](https://windcall.org/about/annualreport/) - Windcall Institute's 2021 Annual ReportDownload
- [Beacons of Resiliency: Bay Area](https://windcall.org/beacons/) - in partnership with Bay Rising Experience the Windcall magic again! "Beacons of Resilience" Daylong Retreat at Westerbeke Ranch in Glen Ellen on Monday, November 28th, 2022 from 10am until 5pm including lunch optional overnights with dinners on Sunday + Monday - limited availability What? A post-midterm election daylong intensive intended to build a community of
- [Staying Power](https://windcall.org/staying-power-parent/) - Our Staying Power program supports organizers to stay in the movement for the long haul through our facilitation and consulting services to movement organizations, formations and individuals.
- [Form test](https://windcall.org/form-test/)
- [Cultivate Your Staying Power](https://windcall.org/resources/cultivate-your-staying-power/) - Keep Staying Power practices present in your life! For home or for you and everyone in your organization as a reminder of how we can stay resilient, whole and visionary in social justice work. Hang it on a file cabinet, wall, or door as a daily reminder. Inspired by alumnus Dothula Baron, image by alumnus
- [Staying Power Training Payment Page](https://windcall.org/trainingpayment/)
- [Windcall Winter Wednesdays](https://windcall.org/winterwednesdays/) - Join Windcall Institute's Staying Power team for a month-long exploration of our elements of healing justice, bringing to a close our 2021 'Elements of Healing Justice' seasonal practice series. PRE-REGISTER FOR WINTER WEDNESDAYS SERIES Building on Windcall's 30 years of experience in providing respite and renewal for movement organizers, our quarterly practice sessions invite our
- [Practice Staying Power for a Month](https://windcall.org/resources/practice-staying-power-for-a-month/) - A Sample Month Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Health Take a brisk walk outside in the middle of the day. Email friends and schedule a casual softball or pickup basketball game in a nearby park. Move! Shake your head, shake your fingers, stretch
- [Election Decompression](https://windcall.org/election-decompression-rnr/)
- [Election Decompression](https://windcall.org/electiondecompression/) - REGISTRATION IS CLOSED 2020 is finally coming to an end. Whatever, wherever, however we are post-election, we all need to take a breath, exhale, and decompress to face what’s ahead. Join Windcall Institute for a weeklong virtual retreat to nourish and replenish our bodies, minds and spirits in a cross-movement beloved community. Our facilitation team
- [Staying Power Training Webinars](https://windcall.org/staying-power-training-webinars/) - Friday practice series Movement Resilience Dialogues
- [](https://windcall.org/2981-2/) - Windcall's Journey from Healing Trauma to Transformation Christine Cordero and Ellen Barry share their experiences. A Gift from the Movement to the Movement 30 years healing organizers TIMELINE OF OUR WORK News Windcall Residents Speak Engage Learn what opportunities we have available coming up: Apply for a ResidencyAttend a Training or WebinarFind Resources
- [Practice Staying Power for a Month](https://windcall.org/resources/practice-staying-power-for-a-month-2/) - We celebrated Windcall’s 25th Anniversary with 25 Days of Windcall, May 5-30, 2014. 25DW was a way for all of us to honor Windcall's 25th Anniversary and the gifts it brings the social justice movement by actually doing practices that grew out of the Windcall experience. These ideas are for you to explore. Experiment with one
- [Windcall Residents Speak](https://windcall.org/windcall-residents-speak/) - What do past Windcall Residents have to say?
- [Our Transformative Healing Pathways](https://windcall.org/about/our-transformative-healing-pathways/) - Cultivating Spaciousness With our signature Residency Program, Windcall places the cultivation of spaciousness front and center in the journey of healing and transformation. Spaciousness is the capacity to be at ease without doing anything specific, not having an agenda, not engaging in any activity. Just simply being. In the hyper-scheduled lives of organizers, it is
- [Healing our Movement](https://windcall.org/movement-transformation/) - We are in a moment right now where the direction of humanity is being actively and visibly contested. The ability to know one's own Human-Beingness in a deep, unshakable way, to see the mutual humanity and sacredness of other human beings and our interconnectedness, to understand our mutual interdependence with nature, life, and all other
- [News](https://windcall.org/news/)
- [History](https://windcall.org/about/history/) - Windcall's 30-Year Historical Timeline A Gift from the Movement to the Movement
- [Timeline test](https://windcall.org/timeline-test/)
- [Timeline](https://windcall.org/timeline/) - [timeline-express limit=10 order=ASC display=all]
- [Get Updates](https://windcall.org/get-updates/)
- [About Staying Power](https://windcall.org/staying-power/about-staying-power/) - Staying Power: A Network of Organizers Practicing Transformation Staying Power: Provides mutual support among Windcall alumni to ground their own leadership and to help them spread practices within organizations and movement spaces. Shares learnings from the Windcall Residency Program that can inform other organizers’ practices and leadership programs. Staying Power is based in the national,
- [About](https://windcall.org/about/) - The Windcall Institute is dedicated to nurturing and developing resilient leadership among community and labor organizers engaged in the work of social justice in low-income communities and communities of color. Windcall fosters transformative learning and leadership through residential and alumni programs that improve the quality, effectiveness, and vitality of social movements and the organizers who
- [Supporters](https://windcall.org/about/supporters/) - Windcall’s budget stands on a sustainable platform made up of three major sources of income. We are proud that grassroots fundraising makes up over half the Windcall budget. Individual Donations 51% of the budget Foundations 33% In-kind donations of Residency sites and/or food and staffing 16% DONATE My wife and I decided it
- [Cultivate Your Staying Power Poster](https://windcall.org/staying-power/windcall-poster/) - Keep Staying Power practices present in your life! For home or for you and everyone in your organization as a reminder of how we can stay resilient, whole and visionary in social justice work. Hang it on a file cabinet, wall, or door as a daily reminder. Inspired by alumnus Dothula Baron, image by alumnus
- [25DW: Coaches](https://windcall.org/staying-power/25-days-of-windcall/25dw-coaches/) - We encourage you to check out coaching. What is coaching? Coach Belma Gonzalez has a great explanation here: https://www.bcoachingandconsulting.com/coaching/what-is-coaching/ These coaches are some of the coaches that work with Windcall Residents to help them to prepare for their Windcall experience and to help them implement their Windcall-inspired visions once they're back home. They are available
- [Overview of Staying Power Trainings](https://windcall.org/staying-power/) - Staying Power: A Network of Organizers Practicing Transformation Staying Power is based in the national, multi-movement character of the Windcall alumni network. It is rooted in alumni initiative and the hunger to transform ourselves and our movements. Staying Power: Provides mutual support among Windcall alumni to ground their own leadership and to help them spread
- [Viewpoint](https://windcall.org/about/viewpoint/)
- [25DW: Detailed Practices](https://windcall.org/staying-power/25-days-of-windcall/25dw-detailed/) - Several people in the Windcall community put together some wonderful ideas for specific practices. Windcall alumnus and coach Alex Poeter's ideas for 25DW are here. Windcall coach Julia Lau de Guzman's ideas for 25DW: What awareness/self-care practices do you recommend others try out during the 25 Days of Windcall? 1) Be One With Nature: Take
- [25 Days of Windcall](https://windcall.org/staying-power/25-days-of-windcall/) - 25 Days of Windcall (25DW) took place in May of 2014. 25DW was a way to honor Windcall’s 25th Anniversary and the gifts it brings the social justice movement. We ran a vibrant awareness campaign via social media to encourage organizers to take up some of the practices learned in the Windcall Residency Program experience.
- [25DW: More Ideas](https://windcall.org/staying-power/25-days-of-windcall/25-days-of-windcall-more/) - 25 Days of Windcall: Health Take a brisk walk outside in the middle of the day. Schedule a massage. Move! Shake your head, shake your fingers, stretch your arms up over your head, skip for a minute instead of walking. Find a yoga, tai chi, qi gong, pilates, or dance class – and go! Say
- [Impact](https://windcall.org/about/impact/) - Windcall alumni’s stories of renewal and transformation are powerful. In 2009, Windcall conducted a survey to quantify Windcall’s impact. The major findings were: Impact at the Individual Leader Level 90% reported that Windcall helped them change their practices to more sustainable ones.86% said they either gained a clearer sense of purpose or became more confident
- [Website Credits](https://windcall.org/about/website-credits/) - Website design and development by the Design Action Collective Coordination and writing: Holly Fincke Website development, writing and editing: Joy Sue Hutchinson Other writing describing the Residency Program: Mac Legerton Photographs/Video : Barbara Armstrong-White Jeremy Austen Dothula Baron Alfreda Barringer Rachel Ebora Soffiyah Elijah Ronald Garcia-Forgarty Lynn Lewis Henry Liu Pie-in-the-Sky Farm Praba Pilar Kristin
- [Order a Poster](https://windcall.org/support/order-a-poster/) - Keep Staying Power practices present in your life! For home or for you and everyone in your organization as a reminder of how we can stay resilient, whole and visionary in social justice work. Hang it on a file cabinet, wall, or door as a daily reminder. Inspired by alumnus Dothula Baron, image by alumnus
- [Windcall Residency Program Orientation Guides](https://windcall.org/about/our-transformative-healing-pathways/windcall-residency-orientation-guides/) - Windcall Guides: For ALL Residents to read: Windcall Guide 2017 Part1 Olympic Peninsula: Windcall Guide 2017 OP Part2 Other Materials: Windcall Coaching 2017 OPrelease and emergency MIRIAM SABBATICAL MEMO
- [Temporary](https://windcall.org/temporary/) - Link to Windcall's YouTube Channel
- [25DW: Thanks!](https://windcall.org/staying-power/25-days-of-windcall/25dw-acknowledgements/) - 25 Days of Windcall Acknowledgements Many thanks to all those who have contributed their leadership, ideas and time to 25 Days of Windcall especially the Windcall Institute Board, Program Committee, alumni who shared their practices, alumni gatherings organizers, and Social Media Superstars who spread the word. They are: Elsa Barboza, Dothula Baron, Rebecca Bauen, Amanda
- [Organizers Talk About Staying Power Practices](https://windcall.org/staying-power/organizers-talk-about-25dw/) - Click on the images of Windcall Alumni below to see what organizers are doing during 25 Days of Windcall. Share your 25 Days of Windcall experiences and reflections on Windcall’s Facebook page, on Twitter, and LinkedIn and use the hashtag #Windcall25.
- [Thanks for Your Interest](https://windcall.org/thanks/) - Thank you for your interest in the Windcall Institute. We will keep you updated with all events and news.
- [Articles](https://windcall.org/resources/articles/)
- [All Awardees 1989-Present](https://windcall.org/residencies/awardees/all-windcall-awardees/) - Windcall Residents, 1989-2017 The Windcall Residency Program has awarded 517 social change leaders a Residency since 1989. Residents are listed with their organization at the time of Residency and the city and state where they currently live. First Name Last Name Organization During Residency City State Residency Year Residency Site Stuart Acuff Atlanta Central Labor Council
- [2013-2016 Awardees Bios and Photos](https://windcall.org/residencies/awardees/2013-2016-awardees/) - 2016 Windcall Awardees Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is an activist, storyteller, and politico based in Los Angeles. Taz is currently a Campaign Strategist at the Asian American new media organizing group 18MillionRising. As an electoral organizer, she’s mobilized thousands of Asian American & Pacific Islanders to the polls in over 17 different languages in the past
- [Windcall Book](https://windcall.org/resources/windcall-book/) - Changing Course: Windcall and the Art of Renewal by Susan Wells A book about the first seventeen years of Windcall and the organizers who were transformed by it.... Seeing the need to help community and labor organizers sustain their vision, balance and resilience, lifelong activists and philanthropists Albert and Susan Wells launched an experiment in
- [Organizing Upgrade](https://windcall.org/resources/organizing-upgrade/)
- [Gallery](https://windcall.org/residency/gallery/) - ....will be coming soon!
- [Support](https://windcall.org/support/)
- [Resources](https://windcall.org/resources/)
- [Residencies](https://windcall.org/residencies/) - Explore information on our Residency Program in the links on the right hand side of this page.

## Testimonials

- [Carlos Duarte](https://windcall.org/testimonial/carlos-duarte/) - "I have been able to reclaim so much of myself and expand learning about myself through body and movement. I found it liberating to run surrounded by nature including majestic snowed mountains and a beautiful and copyrighted lone butte. I hope to honor this gift by making our movement practices much more humane and sustainable, and therefore
- [Yamani Hernandez](https://windcall.org/testimonial/yamani-hernandez/) - I was struck by the feeling of spaciousness and freedom at Windcall. I got to hike a lot and be outdoors. I am planning to do more with staff to create spaciousness.
- [Branden Snyder](https://windcall.org/testimonial/branden-snyder/) - “I came into this program skeptical: ‘What exactly is a program for organizers that is unstructured and focused on healing?’ Unheard of. I was greeted by a cohort of leaders who were in the middle of learning how to show up for themselves and who poured into each other the hard-fought wisdom of survival and
- [Zon Moua](https://windcall.org/testimonial/zon-moua/) - I had doubts before applying, did I deserve it? The year before was hard, with lots of changes that impacted work and how I was showing up in spaces. By the second week at Windcall I felt very human and felt full and calm deep inside. I did deep crying and it felt so good.
- [Sarai Portillo](https://windcall.org/testimonial/sarai-portillo/) - En tiempos donde en la era Trump, es un lujo, pero esencial darnos un respiro, es vital el auto-cuidado. Un respiro que aunque de una semana, ayude a mitigar el nivel de stress y los embates del día a día es primordial para poder seguir en la batalla que sabemos, sera a largo plazo. Windcall
- [Jayeesha Dutta](https://windcall.org/testimonial/jayeesha-dutta/) - "I endured a most nightmarish and difficult care-taking period immediately after my residency (pre-pandemic). I cannot express how deeply grateful I am for the opportunity to have taken a pause, to refill my own cup before my life and the world shifted. I'm not sure my mind, spirit, and body would have made it out
- [Hakima Payne](https://windcall.org/testimonial/hakima-payne/) - The whole experience fed and nourished and gave me time to think, spending time alone that I so craved. I walked in the desert every day, journaled, day dreamed. I came back and instituted changes like daily selfcare time and cooking for friends.
- [Melissa Nelson](https://windcall.org/testimonial/melissa-nelson/) - “I remembered that I am a human BEING, not a human DOING”
- [Z! Haukeness](https://windcall.org/testimonial/z-haukeness/) - “At Windcall I felt held by the slowness, the consistency, the long life of tall trees, the steadiness of the waves, the grand boldness of the mountains. Being here has helped put so many lessons and gifts shared into perspective. I brought back a more intentional, present, open, patient, rooted, dreaming, direct, loving me to
- [David Orr](https://windcall.org/testimonial/david-orr/) - “The first two nights we were kids in wonderland as we waited patiently in the rain to see deer and elk. Lying in the sun – listening – was a liberating feeling... I slowed down, read avidly, discussed organizing and politics… I go back invigorated and excited. Not unmindful of the social sickness, injustice and
- [Richard Juarez](https://windcall.org/testimonial/richard-juarez/) - “When mindlessly racing through the day, it is important to ask: ‘How important is this? Can I cut out some of this stuff and make the quality of my life better? Can I be MORE effective in my work if my life works better?’ This experience has been good for helping me to decide to
- [Linda Stout](https://windcall.org/testimonial/linda-stout/) - "Because of the oppression in our society, it is difficult to remember, as a poor person, that I have something of value to say. Being at Windcall helped me to remember the value of ‘my own words.’”
- [Mac Legerton](https://windcall.org/testimonial/mac-legerton/) - “Whether we are ‘promoting’ or ‘preventing’ in our work, whether we are ‘supporting’ or ‘opposing’, we are using tremendous amounts of energy. That energy – without disciplined rituals of renewal – becomes depleted. Time often becomes enemy rather than a natural friend. Being at Windcall – just being – was the beginning of renewal. Out
- [Fran Barrett](https://windcall.org/testimonial/fran-barrett/) - “The air, the breeze and sun, mountain water, instant storms and just plain colors, stop you dead in your tracks. It’s not that you take it in. It takes you in.”
- [Robert Bray](https://windcall.org/testimonial/robert-bray/) - "At Windcall I realized that I needed to move into something with a broader progressive agenda. The wide-open space fueled my creativity and I began the idea for the SPIN Project. Then the other Windcall residents helped put flesh on the bones of the idea."
- [Conny Ford](https://windcall.org/testimonial/conny-ford/) - "I came to Windcall needing something desperately. Before Windcall, I felt like I was just spinning my wheels It didn’t seem to matter how hard or long I worked, how much time I gave up with my family and friends: nothing could keep me from this downward spinning motion. At Windcall, I found the beginning
- [Donna Parson](https://windcall.org/testimonial/donna-parson/) - "I think one of the greatest challenges facing progressives is the longevity of our staff and leaders. Windcall is one of the very few institutions that addresses this issue directly - not in words but in providing the experience for committed activists. I’ve been able to bring the lessons I learned at Windcall in to
- [Bob Fulkerson](https://windcall.org/testimonial/bob-fulkerson/) - "Windcall is where I first thought about starting a statewide progressive coalition. I had time to reflect on the previous eight years I'd spent doing environmental work, how I couldn’t stay engaged in that for the rest of my life, and thought about what was next for me as an organizer in Nevada. Talking with
- [Carl Anthony](https://windcall.org/testimonial/carl-anthony/) - “For the first time since I can remember, I was being taken care of. Time and space far away, with no agenda, no pressures. I couldn’t believe how quiet it was. So the emptiness and silence of the first days of Windcall was the greatest gift of all. I went out on an evening walk,
- [Janet Robideau](https://windcall.org/testimonial/janet-robideau/) - "I believe that my Windcall experience made me a calmer individual. I incorporated the need for my staff to spend personal time on themselves and not focus 24/7 on the work. I tracked how much staff is working and if I felt they need time away, we negotiate it."
- [Bill Gallegos](https://windcall.org/testimonial/bill-gallegos/) - "I have been inspired by the essential beauty of wilderness, of a genuine silence, of a comforting darkness, but even more by the deep compassion and sense of humanity of my fellow residents. Windcall allows us to surround ourselves not only with trees, flowers, birds and streams-but with the deep-rooted strength of freedom fighters."
- [Dianne Bady](https://windcall.org/testimonial/dianne-bady/) - "Many activist leaders deal with grief every day. We see human and ecological injustice. And it hurts. Ideally this pain is transformed into the energy that fuels our work. But often, the intensity of our lives keeps too much of the pain buried deep in our hearts and in our overstressed bodies."
- [Taj James](https://windcall.org/testimonial/taj-james/) - “Because Windcall is not directive in the way most other spaces like this are, it is a unique place for folks to ask themselves, ‘What do I need to be sustained and renewed in my life and work?’ – and be supported in answering it. Without Windcall, many activists would not have found a way
- [Josh Hoyt](https://windcall.org/testimonial/josh-hoyt/) - "Organizing is grueling, public, conflictive and draining work. We tend to believe that we want neither thanks nor recognition. But a long distance social justice runner needs balance and self care. If we value the people who do social justice work, then we must invest more in the doers."
- [Marielena Hincapie](https://windcall.org/testimonial/marielena-hincapie/) - "I have made some major life decisions that are all efforts at taking care of myself and doing what is truly important to me. I firmly believe I have been able to take these steps as a result of being at Windcall and starting a healing process that is manifesting itself in my personal and

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