Truthsgiving: A Cultural Repair + Healing Ceremony

An indigenous-led alternative focus on "Thanksgiving Day" for those seeking to compost the wounds of colonialism, honor the wholeness and dignity of lineage, and resource for collective healing.

We all come from people who gathered around fires, singing, dancing, grieving, storytelling and caring for each other and the earth in deep reciprocity. More, we all carry the impacts of colonization in our ancestral lines, and through this shared history our liberation is intertwined.

This hour and a half ceremony features meditation invoking ancestry, song honoring our lineage, prayer and offering to Ancestors of Wholeness, space for metabolizing grief, journaling reflection, and sharing and witnessing.

Come listen to the heartbeat beneath our shared history, where grief breathes itself into restoration.
It is an honor to share space in this way on this day.

This ceremony is offered with a sliding scale to allow for wider financial accessibly for those who need it and to allow for reparations during this significant cultural time. When registering with this scale, please consider this an opportunity to interrupt the cultural history of the offerings of indigenous peoples being taken without fair reciprocity, and to participate in reparations and the redistribution of wealth back to Indigenous Peoples and their work.

This experience is facilitated by Alyx Somas of The Collectivity Project, a labor to restore our relations with our spirit, our people, and our earth. This project is a labor for reindigenization, calling from indigenous lineage teachings to re-member our true nature--which is deep beauty, belonging, and interdependence. This work is for healing the primal wound of our severed belonging to village, and for attuning to this orphaned western world without shame or blame — no longer individualizing what is systemic. Rather, transforming our shared grief into compassionate action, empowered with practical tools towards justice and liberation.