XC brings the practice of presence to community-based visioning, strategizing and organizing for cohesive, sustainable social transformation.
Our community spaces and collective training in inner awareness practices nourish embodied presence and resilience for social change agents, and bring individual liberation together with the liberation of all.
We believe that a deep, sustained personal practice cultivates the sensibilities necessary to become embodied agents of conscious social change directed at building a society of those same attributes — of love and justice. Becoming present to our lives and bringing our actions into alignment with our best intentions, and doing this together builds the necessary personal strength, integrity and clarity we need to actually embody transformative change.
Our programs echo the infamous charge to “educate, agitate and organize” made by B.R. Ambedkar, who by these means invited hundreds of thousands of India’s “untouchables” to self-liberation from debilitating caste system. Only when people work from self-empowerment — and in particular the capacity to be with oneself and with what is — can their work be that of true freedom.
Though some kinds of change may come easily, we believe that complete transformation requires that we practice changing again and again until we align ourselves with that change in our thoughts, words and actions.
We believe that from this solid foundation, we all can give more, do more, and work together better to build a more cohesive, sustainable environment for social transformation locally and nationally.