Solidarity Suppers be fed with intention.

Long-table dinners that bring together community leaders, elders, and Indigenous neighbors — with listening circles, storytelling, and the slow building of relationships.

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Solidarity Suppers are how we practice taking care of a place together — before we make it formal.

These are not networking events. They are invitation-based long-table dinners where people come on behalf of their neighborhoods, organizations, and places. The shared meal opens the door to honest conversation. We host listening circles and storytellings — the kind of slow conversation that lets people say what they’re actually working on, what they need, and where the connections want to be made.

We center community leaders and elders — especially our Indigenous neighbors, whose knowledge of this place goes back generations. The shared meal opens the door to everything that comes after.

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What they are

Long-table dinners, and what happens around them.

Solidarity Suppers are seasonal long-table dinners. We share a slow meal. We listen carefully. We host listening circles and storytellings — the kind of conversation that rarely happens in the rooms most of us spend our days in.

We center community leaders and elders — especially our Indigenous neighbors, whose knowledge of this place goes back generations. We take the pulse of the region together: what people are working on, what they need, where the connections want to be made.

What they aren't

Not a networking event. Not a fundraiser. Not a panel.

These are invitation-based. People come on behalf of the neighborhoods, organizations, and places they care about. No name tags. No pitches. The shared meal opens the door to honest conversation, and the conversation does the rest.

We are practicing what it means to take care of a place together, before we make it formal. The Suppers are how the relationships get real.

The listening circle

One person speaks. Everyone else actually listens.

At the heart of each Supper is a listening circle — a simple form drawn from many traditions (Indigenous councils, Quaker meetings, the Way of Council). One person speaks at a time, holding a token. Others listen without preparing a response. No cross-talk. No debate.

It sounds simple. It changes everything. In a culture that has nearly forgotten how to listen, this practice is itself an act of repair.

How to come

By invitation — but the invitation is open.

Suppers are kept small enough that the table can hold the conversation, which means we cannot host everyone every time. We rotate. We invite based on who is doing meaningful work and who is ready to be in the room. If that sounds like you, apply — we want to know you.

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A place creates relationships that politics can't sever. The conservative rancher and the progressive farmer share an aquifer. We learn how to share the table before we can share the watershed.

★ Ask for an invitation

Ask to come to the next Supper.

Tell us a little about you, the community or work you'd be representing at the table, and what you're paying attention to right now. We answer every message personally.

✉ Apply →

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★ The SPIRIT paths all interconnect

Each program weaves with the others.

Solidarity Suppers build relationships. Commons Teach-Ins build understanding. The Neighborhood Resiliency Program builds capacity. Allocation Rounds put resources in motion. You can enter anywhere.

→ Culturing

Commons Teach-Ins

Free monthly sessions on how communities have actually taken care of land together — past and present. Open to everyone. No prerequisites.

→ Coordination

Neighborhood Resiliency Programs

Free 12-session training that gives a small group of neighbors the relationships, skills, and plan to weather an emergency together — instead of alone.

→ Flowing money to the work

Community Grant Rounds

Community-decided grant rounds that put funds directly into the hands of the people doing the work of caring for the Front Range.

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