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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent - Online
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nDecember 10th\, 2026 \n\n\n\nOnline \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: December 10th\, 2026\, 5:30 – 7:30pm PT \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: ONLINE. Details shared upon registration. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-online-dec/
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent - In Person
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nDecember 3rd\, 2026 \n\n\n\nTwisp\, WA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: December 3rd\, 2026\, 5:30 – 7:30pm PT \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: in YourSpace at TwispWorks\, Twisp\, WA with a simple meal provided at 5pm for anyone wanting to nourish before class. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-in-person-dec/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261130T160000
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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\, and Darcy Ottey \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as we explore writing as a form of resistance and integration.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the great turnout last year\, we wanted to offer this workshop again\, and invite new folks and past participants to return to this community container. While some elements will be the same as last year’s iteration\, others will be new and/or changed. This course will also be the precursor to an ongoing creative container we hope to launch in Spring 2026. All attendees of this session will be invited first to join that container. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: Online! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHEN: November 30th\, 2026\, 4:00-6:00pm pst / 5:00-7:00pm mst / 7:00-9:00pm est \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSUGGESTED DONATION: Sliding Scale $15 – $65 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/reclaiming-bad-kin-writing-toward-settler-ancestors-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T193000
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent - Online
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nNov 12th\, Dec 10th\, 2026 \n\n\n\nOnline \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: Nov 12th\, Dec 10th\, 2026 (this is not a series\, but 2 separate intro events) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: ONLINE. Details shared upon registration. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-online-nov/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T193000
DTSTAMP:20260902T180250Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent - In Person
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nNov 5th\, Dec 3\, 2026 \n\n\n\nTwisp\, WA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: Nov 5th\, Dec 3rd\, 2026 (this is not a series\, but 2 separate intro events) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: in YourSpace at TwispWorks\, Twisp\, WA with a simple meal provided at 5pm for anyone wanting to nourish before class. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-in-person-nov/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261101T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261101T170000
DTSTAMP:20260820T195323Z
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SUMMARY:Wild Wanders Through The Seasons: Fall
DESCRIPTION:Ceremonially Marking the Cycles & Seasons of Our Lives  \n\n\n\nNov 1st\, Feb 7th\, May 2nd\, August 1st \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFall Wander\, November 1st\, 2026 @ 9 AM\n\n\n\nAll wanders will take place in the Methow Valley watershed\, exact location shared upon registration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIn the spirit of attuning ourselves to the seasons of both our valley and our lives\, we invite you to join one or more of a series of communally-held solo wanders.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThese seasonal\, ceremonial walks offer solo journeys with community support to intentionally orient and mark the cycles of our season ahead\, perhaps as preparation or integration for a bigger life transition\, to mark a particular moment\, or as a practice of ongoing renewal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWe will begin each Wild Wander as a small circle of community\, to check-in\, orient\, clarify intentions\, and finalize preparations for a safe journey alone. Greeting the sunrise\, sunset\, or perhaps the coming dark of night\, you will cross a threshold (a small circle of stones\, a line in the sand\, or the space between two trees) to mark the beginning and ending of your walk. You will sit or wander with a question\, intention\, or prayer while fasting from the common comforts of food\, shelter\, and human company as sacrifices to sanctify this meaningful time. Upon your return\, we will welcome you back\, share a simple meal\, and hear your stories from the Wild Wander before you return home.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSimple. Grounded. And much needed in these times.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHAT: A ceremonial solo time in the wilds with your own intentions\, questions\, and prayers\, held and witnessed in community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: Locations are TBD each season\, depending on current conditions; they will always be in the Methow Valley watershed. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sundays for up to 8 hours of the day\, sometimes into the night\, depending on the season. These Wild Wanders are scheduled for Nov 1st\, 2026\, Feb 7th\, 2027\, May 2nd\, 2027 and August 1st\, 2027. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: There is no cost to participate in these wild wanders\, and we welcome your support! You can make a gift here – please select ‘Rites and Responsibilities’ in the drop down menu when gifting. Contributions from our community make it possible for Rites and Responsibilities to make events like this possible free of charge. Right now\, we are raising $30K to cover our expenses for 2026\, which include website improvements\, outreach efforts\, basic office infrastructure\, and a modest stipend for Scott & Darcy. Here is more information on our way with money. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Contact darcy@nourishing-futures.org \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by Rites & Responsibilities\, a core project of Nourishing Futures. Learn more here. 
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/wild-wanders-through-the-seasons/
CATEGORIES:R&R
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T173000
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent – Online
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nOct 15th\, Nov 12th\, Dec 10th\, 2026 \n\n\n\nOnline \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: Oct 15th\, Nov 12th\, Dec 10th\, 2026 (this is not a series\, but 3 separate intro events) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: ONLINE. Details shared upon registration. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-online-oct/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T160000
DTSTAMP:20260818T204802Z
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SUMMARY:Re-Calling Our Ancestors Fall 2026 Monthlong
DESCRIPTION:October 15 – November 12\, 2026\, weekly Thursdays \n\n\n\n2 – 4pm Pacific Time (5-7pm Eastern\, 10pm-12am BST) \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Re-Calling Our Ancestors team this coming fall\, October 15th – November 12th\, 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\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the waxing and waning of the moon\, we’ll gather via zoom on Thursdays at 2 – 4p Pacific Time (5-7pm Eastern\, 10p-12am British Summer 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 \n\n\n\n– Shay Sloan Clarke\, Re-Calling Our Ancestors Core Guide \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\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“From new moon to new moon\, the Re-Calling Our Ancestors Monthlong unfolds in a spiraling practice full of curiosity and care. Within this holistic framework\, I experienced deep compassion for my ancestors—in all their beautiful\, messy humanity—and for myself.”  \n\n\n\n– Amie Adams\, ROA ‘26 Alum \n\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\nTHE DETAILS\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSliding Scale: $150 – $700 \n\n\n\nDate: Weekly Thursdays\, October 15 – November 12 \n\n\n\nTime: 2 – 4p Pacific Time (5-7pm Eastern\, 10p-12am British Summer Time) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION CLOSES ON OCTOBER 8TH \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions\, please contact us at admin@nourishing-futures.org. \n\n\n\nNot able to join this time\, but want to stay informed about upcoming sessions? Join the waitlist here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/re-calling-our-ancestors-fall-2026-monthlong/
CATEGORIES:ROA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261011T110000
DTSTAMP:20260929T180536Z
CREATED:20260813T153637Z
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SUMMARY:Coming Together to Tend Our Grief
DESCRIPTION:A Weekend Community Grief Ceremony in Twisp\, WA\n\n\n\nFriday\, Oct 9th: 7p-9p / Saturday\, Oct 10th: 9a-9p / Sunday\, Oct 12th: 9a-12p \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmidst our personal losses and the ecological and social catastrophes of our times\, we need spaces to grieve together\, in community. \n\n\n\nJoin a small group of other community members\, held by experienced Grief Ritual facilitators Marisa Withey Byrne and Alex Eisenberg from Port Townsend. Together\, we will make space for our individual and collective losses\, disappointments\, and fears. \n\n\n\nThrough talking circles\, singing\, movement\, and ritual space\, we will let our grief move through each of us\, watering the seeds of a community in which none of us need ever bear our sorrows alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Grieving is a soul cleansing way to reclaim and to recover our spirit. When we do not grieve\, we stay in an unhealthy place and lose who we are.” -Sobonfu Somé\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho is hosting this event? We are a small circle of Methow Valley community members that have been gathering monthly since Fall 2023 as a “Kinship Circle\,” with the purpose of strengthening our intimacy with each other and with this place\, and supporting each other to bring this outward into our relations in wider circles. We are collaborating with Rites & Responsibilities\, a project of Nourishing Futures\, to offer this event. Our work together has been informed by many\, especially The Work That Reconnects\, The Emergence Network\, and Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: There is no set cost to participate. We estimate $6\,000 in total expenses for this event\, including meaningful financial support for the facilitators\, cost for the space\, and supplies. We’ll cover all costs with 20 participants contributing an average of $300. If some are able to give more financially\, it will help cover the costs of those who need to contribute less. When you register\, you’ll be asked to make a pledge\, and make an initial good-faith contribution. We will communicate with all registered participants about actual income and expenses for this offering. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhether you’re able to attend or not\, we welcome your support for making experiences like this available and financially accessible for our community. Contributions can be made here (please indicate your contribution is to Rites & Responsibilities and designate“grief ceremony” in the memo line). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:  \n\n\n\nFriday\, Oct 9th: 7p-9p – Opening Circle\, Invocation\, Introductions and Agreements \n\n\n\nSaturday\, Oct 10th: 9a-9p – Whole & small group activities\, time on the land\, grief ritual \n\n\n\nSunday\, Oct 12th: 9a-12p – Closing Reflections\, Integration Invitations\, Devocation \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n      *This timing is subject to change in that we may choose to start later or end earlier\, but please hold the intention to be present for the length of each day.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQ: If you have more questions\, please see our FAQ here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Our Facilitators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarisa\, or “Sasa\,” Withey Byrne is a light bearer dedicated to healing the isolation and suffering of interpersonal violence– especially sexual trauma—to practice and sustain healthy and holistic relationship with self\, other\, and one’s place in the world. Her offerings reflect her experience as an advocate\, sex educator\, council carrier\, ceremonialist\, grief tender\, rite of passage facilitator\, and foster mama. Her Bolivian and Irish ancestry\, deep connection to Pachamama\, and belief in transformative justice shape how she shows up to her work and to the world. \n\n\n\nMarisa’s grief work began with decades of tears in solitude\, transforming while driving through song and wails\, similar to what she later learned was Keening. She believes her ancestors guided her to that ancient form. A few years later\, she studied with friends and community members\, including Kari Stettler\, Thérèse Charvet and Laurence Cole\, who themselves had been trained by grief work leaders Joanna Macy and Sobonfu Somé. Sasa has been facilitating grief spaces since 2018 online and in person\, including an online platform honoring lives lost in incarceration\, a community ritual for youth who have died too soon\, and grief rituals for survivors of sexual trauma.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen Alex Chana Eisenberg found communal grief tending rituals at the age of 24\, she stopped feeling crazy for her depth of emotion and started feeling empowered by it. After her first Dagara-style grief retreat\, Alex continued on with her apprenticeship to sorrow\, but also immediately began an apprenticeship to the work of grief tending and facilitation. \n\n\n\nThrough attending many grief rituals in the Dagara lineage; participating in several grief apprenticeship/training programs under the care\, guidance\, and tutelage of Laurence Cole and Thérèse Charvet; and co-facilitating grief rituals in her own community and beyond over the past 12 years\, Alex has cultivated her own style of grief tending while honing her sensitivities to the rhythms of grief and group energetics. She is always honored to show up in humble service to tending the raw and wild edges of human emotion\, with her deep care and presence\, and her ever-tender heart. \n\n\n\nIn service to this work\, Alex also manages a linktree ( linktr.ee/griefsupport ) where she tracks and promotes grief rituals from around the region and beyond. If you have a link to a grief event you want added\, you can email it to her at alexceberg(at)@yahoo.com. \n\n\n\n\nA few words on the lineage of this Grief Ritual (see audio recording below): Many grief rituals including this one are heavily influenced by the lineage of the Dagara people of Burkina Faso\, which was brought to our continent by Sobonfu and Malidoma Some several decades ago in response to destruction being wrought by “the west” due to our lack of connection\, lack of ritual\, and lack of grief tending. The ritual has necessarily\, and at the request of Sobonfu\, evolved in form and content\, to better suit the needs of our culture as it differs from the village. These changes also reflect the emergence and synergy that happens as those of us in the West\, individually and collectively\, begin to discover and embody our own authentic ways of grieving and grief tending\, bringing our own innate wisdoms\, our own lineages and traditions\, and as we traverse the unprecedented terrain of these times.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSiena at NW Grief Tending · Honoring the Dagara Grief Ritual Teaching Lineage\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“To honor our grief\, to grant it space and time in our frantic world\, is to fulfill a covenant with soul – to welcome all that is\, thereby granting room for our most authentic life.” – Francis Weller
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/coming-together-to-tend-our-grief/
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent – In Person
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nOct 8th\, Nov 5th\, Dec 3\, 2026 \n\n\n\nTwisp\, WA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: Oct 8th\, Nov 5th\, Dec 3rd\, 2026 (this is not a series\, but 3 separate intro events) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: in YourSpace at TwispWorks\, Twisp\, WA with a simple meal provided at 5pm for anyone wanting to nourish before class. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-in-person-oct/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260910T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260910T193000
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent - Online
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People\n\n\n\nSept 10th\, Oct 15th\, Nov 12th\, Dec 10th\, 2026\n\n\n\nOnline\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWHEN: Sept 10th\, Oct 15th\, Nov 12th\, Dec 10th\, 2026 (this is not a series\, but 4 separate intro events) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE: ONLINE. Details shared upon registration. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-to-the-wheel-of-consent-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260903T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260903T193000
DTSTAMP:20260901T194947Z
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SUMMARY:Intro to the Wheel of Consent - In Person
DESCRIPTION:for all Curious and Willing People \n\n\n\nSept 3rd\, Oct 8th\, Nov 5th\, Dec 3rd\, 2026 \n\n\n\nTwisp\, WA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent is a practice\, with or without touch\, that empowers everyone. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n​These 2-hour introductions will invite you into embodied practices that cultivate your capacity to: \n\n\n\n\nNotice and honor signals from your body\, including your sense of safety\, your wants\, and your willingness\,\n\n\n\nTrust yourself and consider what deepens trust with others\, \n\n\n\nValue yourself and others\,\n\n\n\nCommunicate clearly and confidently.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nConsent practices in this class do not require touch. ​Practices are always optional with diverse ways for you to engage and learn. Exercises are always offered by describing and demonstrating the practice\, inviting an opportunity to experiment in the practice\, and a debrief. Please review these Shared Agreements before this class.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHEN: Sept 3rd\, Oct 8th\, Nov 5th\, Dec 3rd\, 2026 (this is not a series\, but 4 separate intro events) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWHERE:  in YourSpace at TwispWorks\, Twisp\, WA with a simple meal provided at 5pm for anyone wanting to nourish before class. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCOST: These liberatory practices are simple and foundational\, helping people freely feel alive\, creative\, connected and empowered in all aspects of life. Offer what you can for this Intro\, $5-$35 suggested via Venmo or PayPal\, or cash if in person.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a Rites and Responsibilities event. Learn more about Rites and Responsibilities here.
URL:https://nourishing-futures.org/event/intro-into-the-wheel-of-consent/
CATEGORIES:R&R
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260319T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T235959
DTSTAMP:20260316T185718Z
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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
CATEGORIES:ROA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T235959
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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\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\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\n$400 – $1200 Sliding Scale \n\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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T180000
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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/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ROA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T200000
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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
CATEGORIES:Nourishing Futures
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250721T235959
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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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