our mission
Building the bridge to our collective cultural well-being through research and community practice.
As we are still in our founding stage, Bridgework Alliance for Cultural Wellbeing is moving forward as a Self-Declared 501(c)(3) . While still held to the same standards as a traditional 501(c)(3), this allows us to receive the benefits of tax-exempt status without the fees, bureaucratic processes, and timeline associated with formally filing with the IRS. As we near the organizational threshold, Bridgework will file our form 1023 application. Together, let's grow and get there!
WORK WITH US
education
Individual, group, and community education through literature and workshops.
community practice
Putting education into action with community practices designed to cultivate embodied wisdom.
research
Engaging in research and designing evidence based practices towards cultural wellbeing.
Constellation Buyers’ Collaborative
Improving connection through care
Meeting our needs as a community
Bridgework Alliance for Cultural Wellbeing seeks to tend community connections, deepen ecological understanding, and feed the extended community. We offer a scaffolding to practice community care while providing practical education about how to participate in the cooperative, store and use products, and foster relevant lifestyle adjustments to be more conscientious consumers. Through the cooperative buyers’ practice, Bridgework intends to foster the embodied understanding of these concepts.
SOUNDheart Program
Building the bridge
The future we wish is one that manifests through the actions we take towards it.
In order to do this we will need to develop new tools for the journey, we will need to train ourselves to be ready for the experience. Members of SOUNDheart tend the future through engagement with research and practice development for cultural wellbeing.
Research Project
Food has a foundational influence on culture. Eating is a ritual process we participate in multiple times per day. The ways we engage with our food and food systems have cornerstone influence on the social, ecological, economic, physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional health of a society. It is important to better understand how our interconnection (or disconnection) with food and food systems affects our spirituality (sense of connection). This information can help us craft more conscious cultural life patterns for a sustainable and well future.
Our founder, Sherene R. Cauley, is a doctoral student studying how the experience of independence from, codependence, or interdependence with food systems affects connection with self, others, Earth, and a sense of the divine. The Bridgework community are active collaborators in this research project.
