Activities in the Community Life Service Group:
Other groups comprising community life may find a home in the CLSG. The benefits are communication and support as needed from among all the KCC Service Groups.
Service Group Coordinator:
Debra Elisa Wohrmann
Sangha members nurture supportive connections through community social events. Recent events include poetry nights, dharma movie nights, and Dharma, Sangha, Sing!
Anyone in the KCC sangha is invited to propose an activity they would like to share. The Community Life Service Group will support your event with advertising, organizing, scheduling, and lending a hand.
Email to propose a social event for the sangha,
Watch KCC Happenings and the events calendar for Community Life Events. Come, relax, and enjoy being sangha!
Use KCC Survey Data as a Practice Community of Care
Use Meal Train for coordinating help with meals.
Meal support is available to sangha members due to illness, surgeries, or other life disruptions. Through KCC’s Meal Train Plus account, we also schedule rides and care support at home. For support, email:
Upon request, sangha members who cook for each other may be reimbursed for up to $9 for meals or rides they provide through KCC’s Meal Train Plus.
Refer to the Portland Area Support Services list
Promote awareness of Villages.
Keep our resources current and share support and learning in community.
The mission of the Engaged Buddhism Group is to support social causes to reduce suffering and to develop Bodhicitta both on and off the cushion. Past activities includes writing letters for Vote Forward to get out the vote, volunteering time and donating money to non-profits in Portland, and building awareness of Climate Change, its disproportionate effects, and how we may respond as Buddhists. Many of us are engaging in the wider world in myriad ways, and all are welcome to join. Email:
Click here for more information.
Engaged Buddhism – 14 Precepts – Mandala of Socially Engaged Buddhism
What distinguishes Buddhist activism from any other kind of activism?
–Excerpted and reworked from The Intersection Point: Buddhist Activism at the WTO by Diana Winston, Turning Wheel, Spring 2000 www.bpf.org
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How often do you browse the internet? What if you could support the environment as you browse? Ecosia is a non-profit company that plants trees for every 50 internet searches using their browser. They plant native trees and a variety of species in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and they report over 256 million trees planted since their browser was introduced in 2009!
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Even in a sangha setting where people are trying to live in harmony, conflicts arise and beg to be addressed. KCC has outlined conflict resolution procedures to help people work towards resolution. If – for whatever reason – conflict still cannot be resolved, KCC’s Harmony Council members can help facilitate resolution.
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Got a Karmaoke idea brewing? Song submissions are officially open! Lead a tune solo, gather a few KCC friends to sing with you, or invite the whole community to join in. If you’ve got a song, we want to hear it.
