Find your people around a shared calling.
A CCDA Affinity Network connects practitioners across geographies around a shared calling, interest, identity, issue, or area of practice. Affinity Networks create space for people asking similar questions to build relationships, develop shared wisdom, learn from one another, and contribute that learning back to the broader CCDA movement.
Explore Affinity Networks
Click on each one to learn more, find resources, and participate in networking opportunities!
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Why Affinity Networks?
Find connection across geography.
Build relationships with CCD practitioners who share expertise, questions, experiences, and areas of practice.
Develop shared wisdom.
Learn from the experiences, expertise, and resources already present among Network members.
Strengthen the wider movement.
Share what you are learning on the ground back with the wider CCDA community.
What Our Affinity Networks Are Sharing
Each Affinity Network contributes at least one Network Offering annually so its learning, expertise, stories, and resources can strengthen the wider CCDA community. See the examples below:
Interested in Starting an Affinity Network?
Affinity Networks launch in two primary cycles each year, in the spring and around the CCDA National Conference. Interest may be submitted throughout the year. From initial interest to launch, the process generally takes about 3–4 months and includes discernment, onboarding, launch preparation, and early support from CCDA.
The next review of Affinity Network interest forms will take place in January 2027, with approved Networks launching in April 2027.
Potential Affinity Network Connectors should be active CCDA members and/or have been engaged with CCDA within the past six months. Not sure whether your membership is active? Click here.
Below are the core commitments involved in starting an Affinity Network. You can find the full expectations, leadership responsibilities, and Network journey in the handbook below.
| Commitments | What it Looks Like |
|---|---|
| Shared leadership | Identify 2-4 Network Connectors who maintain active paid CCDA membership. |
| Gather consistently | Gather virtually at least twice per year and convene in person at the CCDA National Conference. |
| Network Offering | Contribute at least one offering each year to the wider CCDA community. |
| Relationship with CCDA | Participate in quarterly Connector check-ins and annual reflection with CCDA. |
Step 1
Read the Handbook
Learn about best practices for affinity networks, expectations for network leaders, what you can expect from CCDA Staff, and more!
Step 2
Take the CCD Philosophy Quiz
Networks are grounded in the CCD Philosophy! Listen to an episode of the CCDA Podcast and then test your knowledge about this way of loving our neighbors.
Step 3
Complete the Interest Form
Share more about your vision for your proposed network and get the process started! You should hear from a CCDA staff member within 2-4 weeks.
We believe Affinity Networks are part of the connective tissue of CCDA: places where practitioners who may be separated by geography find one another, deepen relationships, share wisdom, strengthen their practice of CCD, and discover what becomes possible when their learning and expertise are connected.
If this is the kind of community you want to help cultivate, we would love to begin the conversation. Review the steps above and submit the interest form. Questions? Email us at info@ccda.org.
