A NEW PRIORITY AREA: Mental health (2025)

Timeline

In the spring of 2025, MIP entered a new phase of listening towards identifying MIP’s next community organizing focus area. Listening is a spiritual practice in which we open our hearts and minds to share authentically and listen deeply to our neighbors. MIP conducted 17 listening sessions at various places throughout the Monadnock region, concluding with a reporting meeting and then a community assembly, where a new focus area was selected.

At listening sessions, community members share personal stories about their lives and barriers they experience to living a full and healthy life in our region. We seek to listen with our whole hearts, discern together our next project for positive systemic change, and together become a aforce for love in an often broken world.

We used the collective insights from these listening sessions and our reporting session to choose a new community organizing project on which to focus our efforts in the coming months: Mental Health

Research meetings with community volunteers are now ongoing to determine exactly where and how we will focus our energies in this broad, but oh so timely, focus area.