For The Ancestors: A Truthsgiving Retreat for Cultural Healing

"Retreat for The Ancestors" 

On the weekend of "Thanksgiving," from 11/28 - 11/30 -- this is a deep-dive ceremonial space for all people to honor, strengthen, and heal our ancestral relationships within our own lineages and across cultures

During times that are calling for collective healing, this offering is a place to enliven the indigenous lineage ways of land-based prayer and reverence that all of our pre-colonial ancestors held.

This retreat is a response to the rise of Empire, ecocide, and genocide – meeting mass devastation with the kind and fierce labor of restoring relationship – with land, with village, and with the Spirit of Life.

Come and re-member what it means to be “a people” together

For full details on the intentions and program of this space, click here.

This retreat is offered at sliding scale tiers to allow for wider financial accessibility and to allow for reparations during this significant cultural time. When registering within this scale, please consider this as a direct and personal opportunity to interrupt the ancestral cultural history of the offerings of indigenous peoples being taken without being gifted back in fair reciprocity, and to participate in reparations and the redistribution of wealth back to Indigenous Peoples and their work.

This "Green Bottle" image offers a sliding scale built on trust and economic justice. The highest tier represents the true costs of labor to hold this space, or the “full price,” and the other tiers are offered in support for those of which paying the full price would incur hardship rather than sacrifice. (Hardship: Paying for the service would negatively impact their ability to afford basic needs like food, housing, or healthcare. Sacrifice: Paying the full or middle price might be difficult and require cutting back on nonessentials (like getting dinner out) but would not cause a harmful, long-term impact on their life.)

Please consider where you fall on the scale for being in healthy reciprocity and accessibility:

1st Bottle – Solidarity Tier: $550 - 950

2nd Bottle – Supported Tier: $300 - 550

3rd Bottle – Scholarship Tier: $200 - 300

*After reviewing the Green Bottle sliding scale, if the recommended tier feels out of reach for you, please get in touch through emailing thecollectivityproject@gmail.com—accessibility is important to us

Aside from buying a ticket here, you may also Venmo @AlyxSomas with the event title in the description for no fee

*Two "Baseline Costs" Scholarships are available for this retreat -- apply here