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Sea and Sun Meditations: A Visual Arts Workshop with artist Kate Sinclair
Join us on Wednesday, December, 3rd at 7 PM Eastern Time for Sea and Sun Meditations with Kate Sinclair This workshop uses the seascape as a way to practice focus and relaxation through art. I will demonstrate with oil pastels on watercolor paper, but you are...
Poetic Elegies: Flowing & Writing Through Grief with Sarah Alayne Martin
Join us on December 1st at 6:30 PM ET for a special Pop-Up Workshop with poet and healing practitioner, Sarah Alayne Martin! Please note that this workshop registration is through our new community space. (Creating a Mission Belonging Circle account is required.) RSVP...
Somewhere Only We Know: Writing the Collective Voice in Creative Nonfiction — An Online Creative Writing Workshop with Katie Schmid
Thursday, November 20th, 2025 at 7 PM Eastern Time Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and...
Concertina Books: A Visual Arts Workshop with Special Guest Facilitator Nerissa Alford
Registration for this workshop is now handled using Mission Belonging's new community platform on Circle. Please note, if you previously registered for Concertina Books via our Eventbrite, please register again using this new link. Apologies for any inconvenience....
Warriors: From Survival to Creation — A Veteran Art Exhibit Presented by Mission Belonging at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Warriors: From Survival to Creation — A Veteran Art Exhibit Presented by Mission Belonging at the Hilton Alexandria Mark CenterMission Belonging, a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing veteran isolation and suicide through accessible,...
Make the Most of Your Year-End Giving
As 2025 draws to a close, you can make a powerful difference through Mission Belonging—while also making the most of your charitable tax benefits. Here’s what recent and upcoming tax changes could mean for you:Key Tax Law Updates to Know New floor for...
Communicating in Print: What are your Options? — A Workshop with Veteran & Author Bree Fram
From books, to op-eds, to social media, how we communicate with the printed word is vital to a functioning democracy. This workshop will walk through motivation, audience analysis, and format for communicating effectively in print. Ticket sales from this fundraising...
Art Saves Lives: My Inner Orange Cat Recognizes Your Inner Orange Cat by Anne Friedman
Have you ever fallen into the trap of thinking you know someone just by seeing them? It can be particularly easy with beautiful people. When the scars aren’t obvious, sometimes I think it means they haven’t been hurt. But how I see them says nothing about how they see...
After a year of dreaming and building, it’s ready.
Dearest Community, I’m thrilled to share something we’ve been building for over a year: Mission Belonging has created a new digital home to help us better understand our community, evaluate our programs, and—most importantly—authentically connect. No ads, no paid...
It’s All in a Name: A Generative Writing Workshop with Chen Chen
For this generative workshop, we’ll play with a form that seems to be all about restriction—a poem where your name is the source of all the language you can use. That is, the only words you can use are those made from rearrangements (partial anagrams) of the letters...
“PARDON MY HEART”: Celebrating Unapologetic Candor with Rosebud Ben-Oni — An Online Creative Writing Workshop in Partnership with Strathmore
Creative writing is a tool for knowing yourself, understanding the world, and connecting with other people. Led by author Seema Reza and accomplished guest writers—including poets, memoirists, novelists, and storytellers—these generative community workshops follow the...
Daniel Smith Watercolor: An Immersive Experience — A Visual Arts Fundraising Workshop
Thanks to our friends at Plaza for connecting us with Daniel Smith Brand Ambassador, Scott Stevenson, for this fundraising workshop benefitting Mission Belonging programs for veterans, service members, military families, and health care workers. Join Scott, a...
