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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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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: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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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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