Community Discernment Process - Session 2: What Do We Believe?
Join us as we dive deeper into the spiritual and philosophical beliefs that guide our personal lives and our work as a collective.
Please still RSVP if you want to attend but can't make the live session. We'll send you the video recordings later.
WHO: This online event is for people who want to faithfully witness, lovingly question and compassionately challenge WildSeed Society - as we discern what kind of community we want to build around our vision.
WHAT: This is part of a series of online fish bowls from the Sacred Warren, who are the team stewarding the vision of the WildSeed Society.
Together, they will serve as a public formation process in which we try to come into alignment about the beliefs and practices that we want to be the foundation of the community we would like to steward together.
At this second session we will focus on the personal and collective beliefs that animate our work. Attendees will learn more about the WildSeed Society’s Philosophy, our Vision and The WildSeed Way.
WHY: We fundamentally believe that the crisis we face as a global society are just political or economic. They are rooted in a worldview and philosophy that never served all of humanity, let alone all life.
Our solutions need to based on a new philosophy and vision for who we might be together. Yet, as a collective, we haven’t quite figured out what that philosophy and vision are.
Rather than pretending we have it all figured out, we want to invite our emerging community to witness us build them intentionally.
To learn more about our thinking, please read this blog post called "How We’re Re-Thinking Spiritual Community - To Navigate These Crisis and for Our Collective Liberation."
THE SERIES
We believe that true vocational work exists at the intersection of what our jam is (what we really love to do), what we are uniquely good at doing, what our community needs and what our community has capacity to sustain. We also believe that communities can’t be designed or organized from a top down approach, but rather they need to arise organically over time.
Thus, we want to explore these central vocational questions in a way that would allow potential community members to discern if WildSeed Society is a community they might want to be a part of, and for us, to better understand which gifts our community is most interested in receiving from us.
Throughout the series, the WildSeed Society’s Sacred Warren will explore:
- Session 1 (May 5th): Who are we?
- Session 2 (May 17th): What do we believe? (RSVP in this EventBrite)
- Session 3 (May 26th): How do we turn our jam into an infinite game?
- Session 4 (June 2nd) : What do we think our existing communities need?
- Session 5 (June 7th): What offerings does our emerging WildSeed community have the capacity to support?"
You can RSVP for the other sessions here - Sessions 1, Session 3, Session 4, and Session 5.
After we host the session, you'll be able to watch the video recordings here.
SPEAKERS - THE SACRED WARREN:
Erika Totten - The Light Guardian
Erika Totten is a dynamic facilitator, pleasure activist, healer, spiritual life coach, and community builder from Washington, D.C. initiated as a Sistah, Goddess, Priestess, Healer in the lineage of her mentor Dr. Shola Arewa. Erika supports people breaking free of the lies empire teaches us about our selves and stepping into the gorgeous, powerful and erotic truth of who we are. She is the founder and director of Unchained Visioning, co-creator of Black Lives Matter: DC, and a core member of Harriet's Apothecary Healer's Collective.
Sandra Kim - The Spirit Weaver
Sandra Kim identifies as a mystic for the (re)volution. Sandra's life purpose is to live in deep communion with Spirit and support others in listening for their inner guidance and reconnecting with the Divine. She serves as a walking temple for people to be able to take refuge in and to learn how to take refuge in themselves, each other, and the Earth. She is publicly known as the Founder of Re-Becoming Human and Everyday Feminism.
Aaron Goggans - The Steward of the Pattern
Aaron Goggans is a writer, facilitator, organizer and architect of the future. Aaron peers into the emerging future while being rooted in deep history of the present moment to envision pathways into a future where we all got free. He is a co-instigator of Black Lives Matter: DC, the Insight-Incite Collective and founder of the Well Examined Life.
Chany Singh - The Quartermaster
Chany Singh is an administrative magician, belly-dancer, coach, and perpetual student from Ottawa, Canada. Chany expertly supports luminaries to make their vision concrete and then deftly works to build out the trauma-informed administrative infrastructure to make it accessible to as many people as possible. She is the founder of Humanitea Virtual Assistance and Humanitea Coaching, a virtual assistant business and coaching business respectively based in Toronto.
Reece Chenault - The Ferryman to the Future
Reece Chenualt is a veteran organizer with over 20 years of labor and Black movement organizing experience. Reece’s work focuses on building Black-led, working class centered movements through taking leaders on transformative journeys whether those journeys are focused on healing, learning or building practical solidarity with international workers movements. Reece is the previous director of US Labor Against Racism and War, instigator of Justice Before Peace and #BipolarDispatches.
WILDSEED SOCIETY:
The WildSeed Society is a political, spiritual and economic community that is inviting people to build a 21st century Underground Railroad together. We are building a series of refuges from the current exploitative world to new worlds where we all get to belong and be cared for—by focusing on Spiritual Liberation, Social Transformation and Economic Revolution. We seek to experiment and prototype our way into a new way of life—in community and in right relationship with the land.
The WildSeed Society is stewarded by a collective of movement veterans, spiritual teachers, and organizational development nerds. Many of the instigators of the collective were involved in the Black Lives Matter movement before starting WildSeed. It is inspired by the vision of futurist Octavia Butler, of gifted misfits finding community together before transforming the world.
If you would like to financially support this work, please consider giving a tax deductible donation here.
Join us as we dive deeper into the spiritual and philosophical beliefs that guide our personal lives and our work as a collective.
Please still RSVP if you want to attend but can't make the live session. We'll send you the video recordings later.
WHO: This online event is for people who want to faithfully witness, lovingly question and compassionately challenge WildSeed Society - as we discern what kind of community we want to build around our vision.
WHAT: This is part of a series of online fish bowls from the Sacred Warren, who are the team stewarding the vision of the WildSeed Society.
Together, they will serve as a public formation process in which we try to come into alignment about the beliefs and practices that we want to be the foundation of the community we would like to steward together.
At this second session we will focus on the personal and collective beliefs that animate our work. Attendees will learn more about the WildSeed Society’s Philosophy, our Vision and The WildSeed Way.
WHY: We fundamentally believe that the crisis we face as a global society are just political or economic. They are rooted in a worldview and philosophy that never served all of humanity, let alone all life.
Our solutions need to based on a new philosophy and vision for who we might be together. Yet, as a collective, we haven’t quite figured out what that philosophy and vision are.
Rather than pretending we have it all figured out, we want to invite our emerging community to witness us build them intentionally.
To learn more about our thinking, please read this blog post called "How We’re Re-Thinking Spiritual Community - To Navigate These Crisis and for Our Collective Liberation."
THE SERIES
We believe that true vocational work exists at the intersection of what our jam is (what we really love to do), what we are uniquely good at doing, what our community needs and what our community has capacity to sustain. We also believe that communities can’t be designed or organized from a top down approach, but rather they need to arise organically over time.
Thus, we want to explore these central vocational questions in a way that would allow potential community members to discern if WildSeed Society is a community they might want to be a part of, and for us, to better understand which gifts our community is most interested in receiving from us.
Throughout the series, the WildSeed Society’s Sacred Warren will explore:
- Session 1 (May 5th): Who are we?
- Session 2 (May 17th): What do we believe? (RSVP in this EventBrite)
- Session 3 (May 26th): How do we turn our jam into an infinite game?
- Session 4 (June 2nd) : What do we think our existing communities need?
- Session 5 (June 7th): What offerings does our emerging WildSeed community have the capacity to support?"
You can RSVP for the other sessions here - Sessions 1, Session 3, Session 4, and Session 5.
After we host the session, you'll be able to watch the video recordings here.
SPEAKERS - THE SACRED WARREN:
Erika Totten - The Light Guardian
Erika Totten is a dynamic facilitator, pleasure activist, healer, spiritual life coach, and community builder from Washington, D.C. initiated as a Sistah, Goddess, Priestess, Healer in the lineage of her mentor Dr. Shola Arewa. Erika supports people breaking free of the lies empire teaches us about our selves and stepping into the gorgeous, powerful and erotic truth of who we are. She is the founder and director of Unchained Visioning, co-creator of Black Lives Matter: DC, and a core member of Harriet's Apothecary Healer's Collective.
Sandra Kim - The Spirit Weaver
Sandra Kim identifies as a mystic for the (re)volution. Sandra's life purpose is to live in deep communion with Spirit and support others in listening for their inner guidance and reconnecting with the Divine. She serves as a walking temple for people to be able to take refuge in and to learn how to take refuge in themselves, each other, and the Earth. She is publicly known as the Founder of Re-Becoming Human and Everyday Feminism.
Aaron Goggans - The Steward of the Pattern
Aaron Goggans is a writer, facilitator, organizer and architect of the future. Aaron peers into the emerging future while being rooted in deep history of the present moment to envision pathways into a future where we all got free. He is a co-instigator of Black Lives Matter: DC, the Insight-Incite Collective and founder of the Well Examined Life.
Chany Singh - The Quartermaster
Chany Singh is an administrative magician, belly-dancer, coach, and perpetual student from Ottawa, Canada. Chany expertly supports luminaries to make their vision concrete and then deftly works to build out the trauma-informed administrative infrastructure to make it accessible to as many people as possible. She is the founder of Humanitea Virtual Assistance and Humanitea Coaching, a virtual assistant business and coaching business respectively based in Toronto.
Reece Chenault - The Ferryman to the Future
Reece Chenualt is a veteran organizer with over 20 years of labor and Black movement organizing experience. Reece’s work focuses on building Black-led, working class centered movements through taking leaders on transformative journeys whether those journeys are focused on healing, learning or building practical solidarity with international workers movements. Reece is the previous director of US Labor Against Racism and War, instigator of Justice Before Peace and #BipolarDispatches.
WILDSEED SOCIETY:
The WildSeed Society is a political, spiritual and economic community that is inviting people to build a 21st century Underground Railroad together. We are building a series of refuges from the current exploitative world to new worlds where we all get to belong and be cared for—by focusing on Spiritual Liberation, Social Transformation and Economic Revolution. We seek to experiment and prototype our way into a new way of life—in community and in right relationship with the land.
The WildSeed Society is stewarded by a collective of movement veterans, spiritual teachers, and organizational development nerds. Many of the instigators of the collective were involved in the Black Lives Matter movement before starting WildSeed. It is inspired by the vision of futurist Octavia Butler, of gifted misfits finding community together before transforming the world.
If you would like to financially support this work, please consider giving a tax deductible donation here.