Event Calendar

Rock Dove Day of Action!!
Health Clinics for Community Healing
Saturday, June 14th
10:30am - 4:00pm**Meet at Earth Matters Cafe, 177 Ludlow Street (just below Houston) at 10:30am for training and coordination**

Your friendly neighborhood Rock Dove Collective is calling our first ever Day of Action! On Saturday, June 14th, Volunteers will fan out across the city, visiting free and low cost health clinics and gathering information about their services from both the staff and the clients who are there receiving services. Our goal is to use this information to create comprehensive profiles of health clinics in NYC, as part of our ongoing effort to make free and low cost health services accessible to those in need.

We will meet up at Earth Matters Cafe, 177 Ludlow Street (just below Houston)at 10:30am. Over breakfast (and breaking the ice!), volunteers will receive their travel plans for the day as well as a quick training on how to gather information when visiting a clinic. Volunteers will go out in pairs and hit up 1-2 clinics before we all meet up at 4pm to decompress, share information, eat, drink, and be merry!

How to Contribute:
Volunteer! Bring your friends!  Join us as we hoof it through the 5
boroughs of NYC (we didn't forget you Staten Island!!) in search of
comprehensive information about free and low cost health services. If you plan on volunteering, RSVP to Freya at freyapowell@gmail.com.

Donate! If you can't join us the day of, please donate food and/or cash so that we can feed our volunteers breakfast and snacks, and help them with metro fare. Contact rockdovecollective@riseup.net if you would like to make a food or cash donation.

We hope to hear from you soon, and to see you on the 14th!

Be well,

the Rock Dove Collective

Does your body react negatively to certain foods but you eat them anyway?
Does the digestive system perplex you? Did your digestive system change
since going to another country? Do you get gassy or constipated? Have you
ever fasted and want to learn more? No worries! Come to this popular
education-inspired workshop about the digestive system by Brooklyn
herbalist Jacoby Ballard. We will learn about the digestive process and
herbs, foods, and supplements to care for it. We will also make a tincture
or syrup that you can take with you, so please bring a 1-oz container.

The skill share will be held on SATURDAY, MAY 17, from 3-5pm near Prospect
Park in Brooklyn.  Please RSVP to rockdovecollective@riseup.net for the
exact address.

About Jacoby: Jacoby Ballard is a Brooklyn-based community organizer,
herbalist, and yoga teacher. He attended the Northeast School of Botanical
Medicine in 2004 and has since studied with Robin Rose Bennett, an
herbalist in New Jersey. He currently organizes with the Northeast Radical
Healthcare Network, who put on the annual Northeast Grassroots Community
Herbal Convergence, intersecting holistic healthcare and progressive
politics. Jacoby's favorite herb of the season is burdock and dandelion,
from which makes a weekly root tea.

We hope to see you there!
Be well,
The Rock Dove Collective

Saturday, April 5
12-2:30 pm
in Park Slope, Brooklyn
(please RSVP to rockdovecollective@riseup.net for exact address)

About the workshop
Oooh the mysterious liver; the word sounds kind of gross, and its function
in the body is often overlooked. This is an herbal workshop on the
invaluable liver and herbal medicines to care for it. The liver is a very
important organ that removes toxins and waste from the blood-come learn
how to best care for it! Using the methodology of popular education, we
will learn the role of the liver in the body's overall function, what
stresses it and what nourishes it, discuss different kinds of cleanses for
the liver, and make a milk thistle tincture (medicine prepared in
alcohol).

Please bring a 1-oz tincture glass bottle.

About Jacoby
Jacoby Ballard is a Brooklyn-based community organizer,
herbalist, and yoga teacher. He attended the Northeast School of Botanical
Medicine in 2004 and has since studied with Robin Rose Bennett, an
herbalist in New Jersey. He currently organizes with the Northeast Radical
Healthcare Network, who put on the annual Northeast Grassroots Community
Herbal Convergence, intersecting holistic healthcare and progressive
politics. Jacoby's favorite herb of the season is burdock and dandelion,
from which makes a weekly root tea.

Rock Dove needs your help. We are building our directory of free and low-cost services in the city (for you!), and we want to know a lot more about all of them. So please join us on Tuesday, December 4 at 7pm at EarthMatters cafe (177 Ludlow St. just below Houston) for our Open Meeting where we will discuss this and other ways you can become involved in Rock Dove. Please read on for more details!

Annie Ellman, head instructor and founder of the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) in Brooklyn, will offer a basic training in SELF DEFENSE. The skill share will offer an introduction to physical and verbal self-defense skills with discussions on well-being, prevention, and violence de-escalation.

The workshop will be held at 8:15pm on Monday, October 22, at CAE:
327 7th Street
2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Space is limited, so please RSVP to rockdovecollective@riseup.net. We hope to see you there!

Facilitators: Autumn Brown, Stephen McFarland, & Carter Klenk

2-DAY WORKSHOP at The Brecht Forum
10:00 am - 5:00pm Saturday and Sunday

The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is a creative process which synthesizes the raw materials and ideas each of us brings to group work. It is a radical method through which we can confront power and reject the outmoded hierarchical forms of group work we are used to participating in.

This workshop focuses on consensus as a revolutionary and liberating practice, exploring its potential as an organizing tool through group discussions, storytelling and games. We look at consensus decision making as a cyclical process, providing a framework for what is often an abstract experience and revealing the flexibility inherent in the structure. In learning the tools used in consensus group work and the individual roles and responsibilities within the process, we come to a deeper understanding of consensus mechanics. We also focus on the specific role of facilitation in the consensus process. Through shared experience, hands-on training, and challenging exercises, we arrive at a deeper understanding of what it means to facilitate the consensus process, what the possibilities and pitfalls of this role are, and what tools are available to empower the facilitator and create a culture of co-facilitation in a group.

This workshop is open to anyone who desires to learn about consensus, or fine-tune the knowledge one already has. It is open to anyone who desires to communicate more openly and work more creatively with others. For more information about training, or the trainers, contact autumnmeghan@gmail.com.

Sliding Scale: $15-$35 per day No One Turned Away The Brecht Forum 451 West Street New York, NY 10014 (212) 242-4201 mail@brechtforum.org