Our Activities

Our communities are very active in spending time together, but we also prioritize making space for new faces. Reach out if you want to know more about any of our activities.

Support Circles

These are peer-to-peer support groups for anyone suffering from the effects of incarceration. These include people who have directly experienced incarceration and those with loved ones experiencing incarceration.

Alt-J Transformation Pods

This meetings are confidential circles for those who have been accused of, or have participated in violence. This is a feminist space where together we work on how patriarchy has contributed to our violence. Part exercises, part study group, we meet every two weeks to support each others' transformation. The humans of the Second Life project and their transformative skills are an integral part of this endeavor.

Games for Transformation

We often use games as ways to connect and expand our personal, communal and societal transformations. These include Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering and Don’t Starve Together. We play these games both online and in-person and through them form connections and create better worlds.

In-Person Meetups

In order to support re-entry and foster community, we get together and invite others from the community to join us. Sometimes this is at a potluck at one of the post-transitional houses we support in San Francisco, sometimes it is for a hike in Maine, sometimes it is for a beach picnic in Lost Angeles. These are places where new and returning members of our community can get together and enjoy social time. These are all sober events. We offer our active community members the opportunity to apply for a micro-grant to cover funds for these activities.

Other Types of Community Support

The Second Life Project also supports members of our community in a variety of ways. We leverage the power of our communities towards helping those recently freed from locked settings of all kinds. We support a number of post-transitional, parole-ready houses that are led by community members, we try to facilitate digital access though grants for necessary devices and support digital literacy through peer-to-peer support. We also have an online community on slack.