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PROGRESS REPORT January – June 2014

Still Harbor believes that spirituality cultivates the depth of imagination, courage, and service

needed to transform an unjust world.

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Still Harbor believes that spirituality cultivates the depth of imagination, courage, and service needed to transform an unjust world. Still Harbor advances this vision by offering spiritual formation and accompaniment to individuals and organizations concerned with human thriving and social justice.

Still Harbor’s programs of spiritual formation and accompaniment apply the world’s many traditions of contemplative practice to helping individuals and organizations understand, deepen, or reconnect with their inner call, capacity, and commitment to make change in the world by serving others.

Still Harbor recognizes the need for spiritual formation to be offered in a neutral space apart from institutional settings as well as integrated within the communal and institutional structures of the world. As such, Still Harbor has developed two core initiatives:

The Center for Discernment & Action opens a neutral place, unaffiliated with any one institution or tradition, where individuals can come to develop their spirituality as well as their understanding of social justice through events, workshops, year-long programs, intentional community, and/or one-on-one spiritual accompaniment.

The Institute for Spiritual Formation & Society helps individuals and organizations to integrate the spiritual practices and dimensions of social justice within their communities and institutions by offering resources, facilitated retreats, and customized spiritual formation programs.

ABOUT STILL HARBOR

THE CENTER

THE INSTITUTE

OUR TEAM Contractors)/Volunteers)Rev.!Julie!Barnes,!LMHC!Nadia!Colburn,!PhD!

Elissa!Melaragno,!MFA!Susan!Troy,!PhD!

ADD???!Edward Cardoza

Frederick Dello Russo, Jr. Melissa Gillooly

John Hart Diane E. Kaneb Albert J. Kaneb

Carolyn MacNeil Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge

Talia Rivera Arville Stephen Joshua Summers

Edward Cardoza, MA.Min. Rev. Perry Dougherty

Charles Howes Sandy North, MBA

Colleen Sharka, LMHC

Board!Staff!

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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Dear friends,

I’m thrilled to share with you Still Harbor’s most recent progress report. Highlights from the first two quarters of 2014 include:

• Celebrating our fifth year of partnership with Global Health Corps. Together we have provided interior formation and accompaniment to 450 fellows since 2009.

• Launching the Institute for Spiritual Formation & Society, led by Rev. Perry Dougherty, to house our organizational partnerships, curricula design, and publications, including Anchor Magazine.

• Welcoming Charles Howes in the newly created role of Deputy Director to lead strategic programming, communications, and external relations.

Now, in our sixth year, to further expand our work, we are seeking to partner with another service organization and to enroll more individuals in our programs and workshops at the Center. We encourage you to share our mission with others to help us expand the reach of our mission.

Your support helps us serve more individuals and organizations working to make change in the world. On behalf of all of us, thank you for your generosity and partnership.

The staff and I welcome your feedback. Please reach out to us with your questions and suggestions. We would love to hear from you.

With gratitude,

Edward Cardoza Founder and Executive Director

To make your voice heard, to take action, to confront injustice requires courage and imagination.

In our continually changing and increasingly unjust world, we need more individuals who deeply understand their role—however humble—in making change in the world.

Still Harbor, now in our sixth year, seeks to help individuals connect with their deepest calling to confront injustice—to help them to truly know themselves and their values as the foundation for their service to the world. It is this foundation that each of us must call upon in the face of suffering and hardship in order to maintain faith, hope, and resilience. !

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GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS TRAINING INSTITUTE 2014

128 FELLOWS

FROM 22 COUNTRIES

SERVING AT 53 ORGANIZATIONS

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11 STILL HARBOR WORKSHOPS

OVER THE TWO-WEEK TRAINING

Still Harbor facilitators—Ed Cardoza, Perry Dougherty, and Julie Barnes—spent 14 days in July on the Yale University campus at the Global Health Corps (GHC) 2014 Training Institute. The 2014-2015 class of fellows represents GHC’s sixth, and largest, cohort of future leaders. Still Harbor has been a partner with GHC since the first Training Institute in 2009.

Fellows are tasked with integrating and serving in communities and organizations around the world for a year. Still Harbor works with GHC to provide both interior formation and accompaniment for fellows, designing and implementing reflective learning opportunities as well as offering emotional, spiritual, and mentorship support through an on-going chaplaincy program.

Still Harbor’s main goal is (and has always been) to support fellows with workshops, practices, and open listening ears so that they are able to develop a deeper awareness of themselves, others, and the world around them as they serve within organizations and institutions to improve the health of thousands of people around the world.

“These tools are so essential for this work. Still Harbor has saved a lot of people from a … rough transition.”

- 2014-15 Global Health Corps Fellow

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!MORE THAN 93%

OF FELLOWS FEEL MORE PREPARED

AFTER THE TRAINING INSTITUTE

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87% OF FELLOWS

ARE LIKELY TO USE THE SELF-CARE TECHNIQUES

PRESENTED AND PRACTICED AT TRAININGS !

2 days OF GHC STAFF TRAINING

ON MENTAL HEALTH 101

& ACCOMPANIMENT

“I had no idea the training would affect me this much. Not only have I discovered why I wanted to do this fellowship, but I also understood fully what my vision and mission are, how to achieve my goals both during the fellowship year but also in my life in general. I have learned so much, and am very thankful for that.” - 2014-15 Global Health Corps Fellow!

This year, Still Harbor offered each fellow A Life of Service workbook filled with practices, resources, and reading to support them through the year. Fellows will take with them reflections on the interior dimensions of service and leadership, journal prompts and reflection questions, and life-long wellness tools. The workbook is a product of Still Harbor’s Institute for Spiritual Formation & Society, which is tasked with documenting Still Harbor’s approach to linking spiritual formation to social justice impact.

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Still Harbor's A Life of Service curriculum helps Global Health Corps fellows explore who they are, what it means to be a fellow, and how they want to bring their gifts out into the world to make change.

Still Harbor facilitators guide GHC fellows through eleven sessions of reflection, practical skill development, and in-depth small group dialogue. Themes of the sessions range from vision and vulnerability to listening and solidarity; from values and personal narratives to resilience and contemplative leadership.

Through it all, Still Harbor’s aim is to accompany fellows as they strive to understand themselves as leaders and to dedicate themselves to being of service for global health equity.

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A LIFE OF SERVICE CURRICULUM

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This year, Still Harbor offered each fellow A Life of Service workbook filled with practices, resources, and readings to support them through the year. Fellows will take essays on the interior dimensions of service and leadership, journal prompts, reflection questions, and wellness tools with them into their placement organizations.

The workbook is a product of Still Harbor’s Institute for Spiritual Formation & Society, dedicated to documenting Still Harbor’s approach of linking spiritual formation to social justice impact.

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“OUR VOICES, OUR STORIES” A PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALING

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At the invitation of Roxbury Presbyterian Church’s (RPC’s) Social Impact Center (SIC) and Senior Pastor Rev. Liz Walker, Still Harbor is participating in a new pilot program, the Cory Johnson Trauma Education Project, aimed at empowering community members in Roxbury to tell their stories and support one another in the process of healing from trauma.

The core of the pilot program is a series of community events entitled “Our Voices, Our Stories” that will offer safe space for people to gather to share their reflections and stories of trauma, loss, healing, and transformation. Telling one’s story is essential in the trauma healing process. The events will use a participatory community storytelling design (think community group meets open mic) to help people share their stories and have their voices be heard. Still Harbor is helping to design and facilitate the evenings to maximize a sense of safe space, listening, and support for storytelling and healing.

The neighborhood surrounding Roxbury Presbyterian Church is a vibrant community. However, it continues to suffer trauma from violent crime. As Rev. Liz Walker says, “In a community where violence is too often the norm, trauma—the wound or shock produced by

violence—can be lasting and pervasive, affecting not only the individual victim but the community as a whole.

ROXBURY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOCIAL IMPACT CENTER

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In the wake of a violent incident, relatives, neighbors, friends, and witnesses become secondary victims. There is a ripple effect of trauma through which its symptoms pass on from one victim to the next, and before too long, it seems entire groups and communities can be living on edge, hyper-vigilant, and fearful.”

The initiative began with a meeting of 24 stakeholders working on community outreach, organizing, and trauma in the city. The group came together in July 2014 to learn about the initiative and to reflect upon the impact that trauma has had in their lives. Engaging stakeholders in this way will not only allow the program to mobilize existing resources and support for the events but will also help to connect providers to the community as they too grapple with trauma’s impact.

In addition to the monthly events, Still Harbor has helped to design a unique and essential component of the program—the opportunity for participants who may need additional support to meet monthly one-on-one with a community companion. A group of 10 community members signed up at the stakeholder meeting to serve as companions. They will soon finish a series of 12 training sessions on trauma, storytelling, and spiritual accompaniment led by Still Harbor. The program will also offer referral resources for individual mental health care.

The first “Our Voices, Our Stories” event will be held on September 11.

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10 COMMUNITY MEMBERS

TRAINED AS COMPANIONS

TO ACCOMPANY THEIR NEIGHBORS

At the invitation of Roxbury Presbyterian

Church’s (RPC’s) Social Impact Center (SIC) and Senior pastor, Rev. Liz Walker, Still Harbor is participating in a new pilot program aimed at empowering community members in Roxbury to tell their stories and support one another in the process of healing from trauma.

The neighborhood surrounding Roxbury Presbyterian Church is a vibrant community. However, it continues to suffer trauma from violent crime. As Rev. Liz Walker says, “In a community where violence is too often the norm, trauma – the wound or shock produced by violence - can be lasting and pervasive, affecting not only the individual victim but the community as a whole. In the wake of a violent incident, relatives, neighbors, friends, and witnesses become secondary victims. There is a ripple effect of trauma through which its symptoms pass on from one victim to the next, and before too long, it seems entire groups and communities can be living on edge, hyper-vigilant, and fearful.”

The core of the program is a series of community events entitled “Our Voices, Our Stories” that will offer safe space for people to gather to share their reflections and stories of trauma, loss, healing, and transformation. The events will use a participatory community storytelling design (think community group meets open mic) to help people share their stories and have their voices be heard. It is widely understood that telling one’s story is essential in the healing process. In addition to the monthly events, the program will offer the opportunity to join a support group and connect with referral resources for individual mental health care.

The initiative began with a meeting of 24 stakeholders working on community outreach, organizing, and trauma in the city. The group came together in July 2014 to learn about the initiative and to reflect upon the impact that trauma has had in their lives. Engaging stakeholders in this way will not only allow the program to mobilize existing resources and support for the events but will also help connect providers into the community as they too grapple with trauma’s impact.

A unique and essential component of the program is

At the invitation of Roxbury Presbyterian Church’s (RPC’s) Social Impact Center (SIC) and Senior pastor, Rev. Liz Walker, Still Harbor is participating in a new pilot program aimed at empowering community

“In a community where violence is too often the norm, trauma – the wound or shock produced by violence - can be lasting and pervasive, affecting not only the individual victim but the community as a whole. In the wake of a violent incident, relatives, neighbors, friends, and witnesses become secondary victims. There is a ripple effect of trauma through which its symptoms pass on from one victim to the next, and before too long, it seems entire groups and communities can be living on edge, hyper-

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ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH

Still Harbor’s Center for Discernment & Action has welcomed hundreds of individuals so far this year interested in the intersection of spirituality and social justice for programs, workshops, and community. Highlights include:

• Our 2013-14 PRAXIS PROGRAM served 10 participants from across disciplines of service—social work, direct care, management, public health, public policy, philanthropy and more—as they sought to deepen the impact and sustainability of their social justice efforts. The nine-month program ended in June 2014 with a retreat at Adelynrood Retreat Center in Byfield, MA. We are now recruiting next year’s cohort!

• The SAIL PROGRAM accompanied five participants in 2013-14. The six 2014-15 residents will move into the Center in September.

• We’ve expanded our SPIRITUAL DIRECTION PROGRAM AND SERVICES at the Center—our network of three staff spiritual directors and three volunteers have seen 49 individuals over the past 6 months.

• The Center is home to the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti and has provided retreat and event space for 13 partner organizations.

Visit www.stillharbor.org for upcoming events and workshops.

We are thrilled to have completed a strategic planning process in 2013, out of which came important 2014 organizational growth initiatives, including:

• LAUNCHING the Institute for Spiritual Formation & Society, led by Rev. Perry Dougherty, to house our organizational partnerships, curricula design, and publications, including Anchor Magazine.

• HIRING a Deputy Director, Charles Howes, to manage and lead strategic programming, organizational development, and external relations.

• WELCOMING four new Board Members: Rev. Cameron Partridge, PhD; Talia Rivera; Joshua Summers; and Arville Stephen, LICSW.

CENTER PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS !!

151

HOURS OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

97 PARTICIPANTS AT

13 WORKSHOPS AND GROUPS AT THE

CENTER

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THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS !

STILLHARBOR.ORG

FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT

76%

12% 12%

EXPENSES

Programs

Administration

Development

70%

Foundations 4%

11% 15%

REVENUE

Individuals

Foundations

Consulting

Center Programs

FY2014 through June 30, 2014

REVENUE-TO-DATE EXPENSES-TO-DATE ANNUAL BUDGET % BUDGET RAISED

$225,088 $250,223 $469,223 48%

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