Leaven Community is partnering with certified mindbody coach, recovery mentor, educator, and community organizer Stacy Carleton for this series of Move. Rest. Vote! events.

Ballot Party

October 20, 3-6pm

Leaven Community Ctr
5431 NE 20th Avenue
Portland, OR 97211

Ballots don't have to be boring!

Join us to discuss local issues and candidates, fill out our ballots in community, and support our bodies/minds/hearts before Election Day.

As we fill out our ballots, we will take breaks for snacks, dance, and movement. Information about Portland’s new ranked-choice and district-based voting system will be available. Participants are invited to engage in discussion, but our ballots remain private.

Once our ballots are complete, we will close with a somatic rest practice to celebrate and ground in community as we care for ourselves and prepare for the final weeks of election season.

This event is facilitated by certified mindbody coach, recovery mentor, educator, and community organizer Stacy Carleton.

Please bring:

  • Snacks or a dish to share

  • Your ballot + Voter’s pamphlet

  • Yoga mat + pillow + blanket (optional)

  • Optional sliding scale donation $5-20

Walk the Vote

October 27, 1-2pm

Gregory Heights Library 7921 NE Sandy Blvd

Join us to break out of the isolation of absentee ballots and celebrate our vote in community!

We will meet at 1pm at Gregory Heights Library (7921 NE Sandy Blvd) where we will drop off our ballots.

From there, we will walk, roll, skate, skip, and dance north on NE 79th to Prescott, where we will continue west and end at Junior's Coffee/Upright Brewing (7151 NE Prescott St) sometime between 1:30 and 2pm.

Finally, we will enjoy community, food, and a beverage to celebrate our vote together!

Families are also invited to come in costume, so they can join the Roseway Halloween parade on the 72nd Street park blocks that starts at 2pm.

Our trip is .7 miles and estimated to last about 20-30 minutes. The route includes a hill on 79th down to Prescott. 

Feel free to meet us for any part of the route or just the group nosh back at Junior’s.

This event is facilitated by certified mindbody coach, recovery mentor, educator, and community organizer Stacy Carleton.

Please bring:

  • Your completed, signed, and sealed ballot

  • Signs

  • Instruments

  • Comfortable walking wear and rain gear if needed

  • Costumes! (optional)

Release & Rest

November 3, 3-5pm

Leaven Community Ctr
5431 NE 20th Avenue
Portland, OR 97211

It’s time to release and rest!

We’ve organized, we’ve raised funds, we’ve written postcards and made calls, we’ve worked hard in a thousand ways. Now, we will gather and ground in community with somatic practices as we care for ourselves and prepare for whatever comes our way on and after November 5.

We will begin with more active movement to release any intense energy, share reflections/hopes/gratitudes, then work toward grounding in our bodies as we close with an extended somatic rest practice.

All abilities and bodies welcome.

This event is facilitated by certified mindbody coach, recovery mentor, educator, and community organizer Stacy Carleton.

Please bring:

  • Yoga mat + pillow + blanket (optional)

  • Optional sliding scale donation $5-20