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SUMMARY:Re-Calling Our Ancestors Spring 2026 Monthlong
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. \n\n\n\nJoin Waitlist for information on future sessions HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Re-Calling Our Ancestors team this coming spring\, March 19th – April 16th\, 2026\, for a moon cycle of community exploration and ritual inquiry in ancestral recovery\, truth-telling\, and collective repair designed for white\, white-passing\, and white-proximate people committed to dismantling systems of oppression in ourselves and in the world around us\, as well as in our communities of practice and in the bodies of work we carry. \n\n\n\nFollowing the waxing and waning of the moon\, we’ll gather via zoom on Thursdays at 10am – noon Pacific Time (1-4pm Eastern\, 6-8pm Greenwich Mean Time) to explore the earth-cherishing traditions of our ancestors\, the harm our ancestors endured\, the harm our ancestors caused\, and the ways our ancestors resisted and persisted along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“We approach our ancestors not as detectives gathering information but as descendants committed to relationship.”  \n\n\n\n– Shay Sloan Clarke\, Re-Calling Our Ancestors Core Guide \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nThrough a series of online sessions\, home study and practice\, one-on-one peer support\, and small group mentorship\, we will honor the lineages that we’ve inherited\, lay down the inheritances which no longer serve\, and hold space for the grief—and relief—of letting go. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollectively\, we are building a community of practice rooted in each of our own lineages of blood\, land\, and path\, encouraging and supporting each other in the work of cultural renewal and repair. It is through shared study\, community witness\, and group accountability that we do our work as white\, white-passing\, and white-assimilated folks to build anti-racist culture rooted in connection with our ancestors and future descendants (both human and more-than-human). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Rarely have I found a container as nourishing\, accountable\, and held with radical love as the space Re-Calling Our Ancestorshas built\, stone by stone\, heart by heart. Being invited into loving accountability and honest ancestral reckoning has profoundly changed me\, and paves a needful\, resourced path towards just\, kind\, and liberated futures for all of us–interdependently\, collectively.”                                                                                   \n\n\n\n    –Zoë Fay-Stindt\, ’23 alum   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe work of Re-Calling Our Ancestors continues to be necessary and relevant\, even as the calamities of our time change and intensify. Since last offering this month-long in fall 2023\, we have witnessed pervasive state violence and repression; overlapping tragedies and genocides; ecological devastation and ongoing plunder; personal losses of dear comrades and kin becoming ancestors; and wide-spread global upheaval. To honor these ongoing personal and planetary transformations\, the Spring 2026 Monthlong will orient toward collectively uncovering what roles white caucus space and ancestral recovery work have to offer now as we meet the shifting nature of these times. We will do so in partnership both with our ancestors and with future generations\, growing our imaginal capacity to envision\, dream\, and world-make futures of dignity\, self-determination\, and wellness for all beings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants are encouraged to participate individually or with a working partner or group. Previous participants\, we welcome you back for another turn on the spiral and a chance to go deeper\, together! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE DETAILS\n\n\n\nSliding Scale: $150 – $700 \n\n\n\nDate: Weekly Thursdays\, March 19th-April 16th \n\n\n\nTime: 10a – Noon Pacific Time (1-4pm Eastern\, 6-8pm Greenwich Mean Time) \n\n\n\nRegistration is now Closed. If you have any questions\, please contact us at admin@nourishing-futures.org. \n\n\n\n\nJOIN WAITLIST FOR FUTURE SESSIONS HERE.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/re-calling-our-ancestors-spring-2026-monthlong/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Spiraling with Our Ancestors: A Re-Calling Our Ancestors Dreamwork Retreat
DESCRIPTION:We do not walk alone—our leadership is shaped by those who came before us and those who will come after. This course invites participants to explore the fullness\, richness\, and complexity of our ancestral legacies – the legacies of our ancestors of blood and bone\, of lands and waters\, of kinship ties\, of traditions we carry – as well as our more-than-human kin. By listening and dreaming across time\, we practice leading with dignity\, humility\, responsibility\, and a sense of deep continuity toward cultures of ancestrally-rooted relation with self\, each other\, habitat\, and planet. \nIn this long weekend together\, we will explore a holistic way of being with our ancestors and lineages\, tending to the earth-cherishing traditions of our ancestors\, the harm our ancestors endured\, the harm our ancestors caused\, and the ways our ancestors resisted and persisted along the way. Through story\, song\, ceremony\, dreaming\, and time on the land\, we will reconnect with the folk traditions of our ancestors – stories of resistance\, resilience\, and relationship that predate colonial systems and can help us untangle the multiplicity of our identities. \nWhen we strengthen our own resilience and relationships—individually and collectively—through ancestral practices and cultural reclamation\, we have far more to offer to our communities during these times of polycrisis and systems collapse. Coming together across lineages\, we will build collective capacity to offer leadership – each in our own way – as we tend to the spiritual and cultural loss. \n\n\n\n\nIN-PERSON COURSE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAges 18 +\nAll Genders \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJAN 22-25\, 2025\nThursday Arrival between 1-3pm PST \nSunday end by 11am PST \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will be at the Rite of Passage Journeys basecamp at Songaia CoHousing Community. Seminar activities will take place in a heated yurt and outdoor environment as weather permits. Participants will need to be able to walk for short distances on uneven ground. Please be prepared for rain & cold. There are nearby hotels & airbnbs for lodging. Camping is available on site for hardy souls\, with access to outdoor kitchen\, porta-potty\, and a hot shower or two with a friendly neighbor. If you live nearby and are able to open your house to out-of-town seminar participants\, please let us know! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n$400 – $1200 Sliding Scale \nLEARN MORE & REGISTER
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/spiraling-with-our-ancestors-a-recalling-our-ancestors-dreamwork-retreat/
LOCATION:Journeys Basecamp\, Bothell\, WA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reclaiming "Bad Kin": Writing Toward Settler Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:A Re-Calling Our Ancestors Writing Workshop with ROA community members Geneva Toland & Zoë Fay-Stindt \nJoin Re-Calling Our Ancestors as we write toward and alongside our ancestors on:\nTuesday\, November 18th\n4:00-6:00pm pst / 5:00-7:00pm mst / 7:00-9:00pm est \n“Only through actively beginning from our understanding of our complicity in ongoing brutality can white settlers participate in the project of remaking the world\,” writes Alexis Shotwell in her essay\, “Claiming Bad Kin.” For those of us whose ancestors took part in the early settling of Turtle Island\, displacement\, and attempted genocide of Indigenous peoples\, knowing where to begin can be daunting. But our responsibilities to our beloved dead continue in the stories we write today\, and language offers a place to begin those conversations. On the page\, we can reach across centuries to speak with our kin\, getting curious about the choices they made and reckoning with the harms they caused that brought us to the lands we live on today. \nIn this two-hour session\, we will write towards\, through\, and alongside our settler ancestors. What questions do we have for them? How do we not turn away from\, but toward\, our “bad kin\,” with love\, humility\, and accountability? All levels are welcome to this generative session. Participants will be guided in somatic practice\, creative prompts\, and held in a container for collective sharing and witnessing. \nJoin us as we explore writing as a form of resistance and integration.  \nRegister Here.\nGeneva Toland is currently working towards her MFA in Poetry at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has appeared in Southern Humanities Review\, Camas\, humana obscura\, Reckoning and West Trade Review\, among others. She is also a poetry editor at Terrain and Chapter House Journal. She feels humbled to live in the homelands of the Ute\, Diné and Puebloan peoples\, where she teaches writing workshops\, leads song circles\, and plays with kids in the woods. See her other offerings at http://www.genevatoland.com. \nZoë Fay-Stindt is a queer\, land-based poet and essayist. Raised by both the swamps of eastern Carolina and the Hérault river of Languedoc\, France\, they are a sixth generation settler currently residing on unceded Cherokee lands (colonially known as Asheville\, North Carolina). Their work has been Pushcart\, Best of the Net\, and Best New Poets nominated\, featured or forthcoming in places such as Southern Humanities\, Ninth Letter\, VIDA\, Muzzle\, Terrain\, and Poet Lore\, and gathered into a chapbook\, Bird Body\, winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. They are a student of belonging and embodied relationship to land who believes in slowness\, reciprocal relationship with place and people\, and queer\, decolonized\, kincentric futures. \nSliding Scale Suggested Donation\n\nAs we convene in support of the relationships\, collective learnings\, and shared inquiry of Re-Calling Our Ancestors\, we invite you to make financial contributions. \nWe believe that how we are with money\, together and individually\, is part of our pathway out of systems of dominance and toward such an emergent\, co-liberatory future. \nWe ask for a sliding scale contribution of $15 – $65 for this workshop. That said\, if you are in a financial position to give more\, please do. And if you need to contribute less\, please contribute what you are able. We welcome all financial positions\, and trust you to give based on your needs and your commitment to redistributing wealth. We are committed to redistributing at least 10% of proceeds to Indigenous communities\, and invite you to contribute with this in mind. \nIf there are other forms of reciprocation besides money that you can offer\, we welcome those inquiries. Email evietoland@gmail.com with questions or alternatives. \nSuggested Donation: $15 – $65 \n Register Here.\nLearn more about Re-Calling Our Ancestors Here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/reclaiming-bad-kin-writing-toward-settler-ancestors/
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SUMMARY:"Dark and Tender" Screening\, Q&A & Community Sing with Aaron Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a film screening\, Q&A with and Community Sing with Director Aaron Johnson. \nAaron Johnson’s powerful short film “Dark and Tender” follows ten Black men on a transformative retreat with the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project outside Seattle\, Washington. The men seek to reclaim platonic intimacy and tenderness through close encounters with nature and depictions of gentle Black masculinity\, restoring the vital aspect of touch by replacing violence and rough play with care\, connection\, and intimacy. \nOfficial Trailer | Dark and Tender | A Film by the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project\nREAD Seattle Medium: “Short Film Seeks to Bring Racial Healing for Black Men Through Touch” \nColor of Sound\, Producer of Dark and Tender\, is a nonprofit 501c3 organization located in Port Townsend\, WA just two hours northwest of Seattle. Color of Sound is dedicated to improving the lives of people of color in the PNW and beyond through racial healing\, housing and land access\, restorative justice\, and economic development. Our first project is the Chronically UnderTouched Project short film called Dark and Tender. \n  \nHosted by Nourishing Futures\, the SomaRoot Center for Embodied Arts\, MLK Unity\, and the Chico Women’s Club. \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/chico-dark-and-tender-screening-qa-community-sing-with-aaron-johnson/
LOCATION:Chico Womens Club\, 592 E 3rd St\, Chico\, 95928
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SUMMARY:Rites & Responsibilities: A 5-Day Seminar on Navigating Transitions in an Ever-Changing World
DESCRIPTION:Ages 18 + | All Genders \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRiver Root Farm\, Deming\, WA \n\n\n\n\n\nThe last decades have seen dizzying levels of cultural\, political\, technological\, and ecological change –  and those changes appear to just keep moving faster. These changes call on us to remember and re-engage the wisdom and traditions of our elders and ancestors at the same time we learn from the children and those future generations who will be living in a future that we cannot yet even dream. \nHow do we tend to our ever-changing personal and professional realities as we honor and reckon with the complex lineages we have inherited\, and move forward into unknown futures?  \nHow do we navigate the inner and outer barriers to change we experience as we simultaneously hospice that which is dying and  midwife that which is already being born? \nPractices of initiation—conscious crossings from who we have been to who we are becoming–offer us a powerful and time-tested means of navigating change. Engagement with these processes help us step ever more fully into our leadership\, as well as offer a specific set of tools we can offer to our community. When we restore rites\, the whole community can flourish. \nIn this 5-day seminar\, we’ll build a community of practice and inquiry together. Through ceremonial process\, critical analysis\, and hands-on practice\, we’ll explore key tools for bringing forth meaningful\, culturally responsible rites of passage.  We’ll help each other uncover what it means to step fully into one’s role in our families\, communities\, and society\, and how to most effectively carry our gifts with responsibility and grace.  As we study\, share\, reflect\, practice\, grieve\, organize\, and celebrate\, we will create space for our points of connection and shared experience as well as honoring the differences between us. \nFor more program details and to register\, visit our event site here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/rites-responsibilities-july/
LOCATION:River Root Farm\, Deming\, WA\, United States
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