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part 3: guiding ourselves through Grief series
guiding ourselves through Grief
a seasonal discourse with nature
with Juliet McGraw & ridhi d’cruz
why Grief & why now? From the global to the personal, from climate chaos to loss & sickness, Grief touches each and every one of us in a variety of ways. Despite the universality of this experience, we create very few spaces and times to touch into our Grief in ways that support our healing journeys. An inevitable teacher, Grief often communicates something is missing from us. Join us for a discourse of loss within nature and finding healing connections to Grief within ourselves.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Juliet McGraw
Juliet McGraw (she/her) has long been drawn to connecting ideas, people, and organizations. Raised in both Washington and Texas, Juliet is intimately familiar with finding commonality in seemingly disparate lifeways. Moving between the natural and built environment, urban Indigenous lifeways and dominant culture, she finds her energy is most useful in liminal spaces. Aware that serving on the Chinook Indian Nation’s Canoe Family is a profound privilege, Juliet works to honor this relationship by applying Indigenous ethnobotany to landback initiatives in the PNW.
ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender wild, neurospicy, caste non-dominant Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India, and, in 2010, moved to the unceded lands of the Chinook people (Portland, USA) to pursue a graduate program in sociocultural and applied anthropology. Trained as a journalist, anthropologist, and culture worker, they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist. They root their life artistry in the intersections of place, healing, design and creative justices. They have dedicated over a decade of their life to cultivate liberatory processes, projects, and places that nourish people’s belonging to themselves, to Land, and to each other.
REGISTRATION
Please note that pre-event registration and payment is required and closes Thur, Sept 27, @ 5pm PT.
To sign up for this event, please fill out this registration form and send in your payment via the links below.
part 2: guiding ourselves through Grief series
guiding ourselves through Grief
a seasonal discourse with nature
with Juliet McGraw & ridhi d’cruz
why Grief & why now? From the global to the personal, from climate chaos to loss & sickness, Grief touches each and every one of us in a variety of ways. Despite the universality of this experience, we create very few spaces and times to touch into our Grief in ways that support our healing journeys. An inevitable teacher, Grief often communicates something is missing from us. Join us for a discourse of loss within nature and finding healing connections to Grief within ourselves.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Juliet McGraw
Juliet McGraw (she/her) has long been drawn to connecting ideas, people, and organizations. Raised in both Washington and Texas, Juliet is intimately familiar with finding commonality in seemingly disparate lifeways. Moving between the natural and built environment, urban Indigenous lifeways and dominant culture, she finds her energy is most useful in liminal spaces. Aware that serving on the Chinook Indian Nation’s Canoe Family is a profound privilege, Juliet works to honor this relationship by applying Indigenous ethnobotany to landback initiatives in the PNW.
ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender wild, neurospicy, caste non-dominant Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India, and, in 2010, moved to the unceded lands of the Chinook people (Portland, USA) to pursue a graduate program in sociocultural and applied anthropology. Trained as a journalist, anthropologist, and culture worker, they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist. They root their life artistry in the intersections of place, healing, design and creative justices. They have dedicated over a decade of their life to cultivate liberatory processes, projects, and places that nourish people’s belonging to themselves, to Land, and to each other.
REGISTRATION
Please note that pre-event registration and payment is required and closes Thur, Aug 8, @ 5pm PT.
To sign up for this event, please fill out this registration form and send in your payment via the links below.
part 1: guiding ourselves through Grief series
guiding ourselves through Grief
a seasonal discourse with nature
with Juliet McGraw & ridhi d’cruz
why Grief & why now? From the global to the personal, from climate chaos to loss & sickness, Grief touches each and every one of us in a variety of ways. Despite the universality of this experience, we create very few spaces and times to touch into our Grief in ways that support our healing journeys. An inevitable teacher, Grief often communicates something is missing from us. Join us for a discourse of loss within nature and finding healing connections to Grief within ourselves.
ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS
Juliet McGraw
Juliet McGraw (she/her) has long been drawn to connecting ideas, people, and organizations. Raised in both Washington and Texas, Juliet is intimately familiar with finding commonality in seemingly disparate lifeways. Moving between the natural and built environment, urban Indigenous lifeways and dominant culture, she finds her energy is most useful in liminal spaces. Aware that serving on the Chinook Indian Nation’s Canoe Family is a profound privilege, Juliet works to honor this relationship by applying Indigenous ethnobotany to landback initiatives in the PNW.
ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender wild, neurospicy, caste non-dominant Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India, and, in 2010, moved to the unceded lands of the Chinook people (Portland, USA) to pursue a graduate program in sociocultural and applied anthropology. Trained as a journalist, anthropologist, and culture worker, they fondly identify as a learner, facilitator and artist. They root their life artistry in the intersections of place, healing, design and creative justices. They have dedicated over a decade of their life to cultivate liberatory processes, projects, and places that nourish people’s belonging to themselves, to Land, and to each other.
REGISTRATION
Please note that pre-event registration and payment is required and closes Thur, July 11.
To sign up for this event, please fill out this registration form and send in your payment via the links below.
easing into Darkness
Join Flynne & ridhi as we collectively embrace this seasonal shift. We’ll sip tea, & eat soup. We will reflect, ritualize & remember plants that can support us during this time of the year.
You are invited to make & take home a plant wand with farm-grown herbs like mugwort, sweet annie, rosemary, & more! We’ll share some context and practices for working with plants in this way.
To register, please visit bit.ly/easeintodarkness2023 or click here
About Flynne
flynne is a queer mixed-race farmer, herb nerd & community collaborator. flynne works to center access to natural and ancestral ways of healing that allow us to lessen our grip on capitalism when it comes to taking care of ourselves and each other
About ridhi
ridhi is a gender-expansive, neurospicy Malayali learner, facilitator & artist who roots into the intersections of place, healing, design & creative justice for collective liberation.
place justice 101: making, taking and keeping place
“Place” is not a neutral concept. It is simultaneously a physical, social and metaphysical location and one that is inherently political. To varying degrees, we all shape and are shaped by the places we inhabit.
During this session, we will explore what place means to us and how we can be in the practice of making, taking and keeping places for justice and liberation. We will begin with building a foundation for this practice by unpacking why place justice is important. We will then move into a meditation on place, followed by discussion in pairs and in the larger group to unpack, disentangle and clarify our relationship to place and how we can make, take and keep place in liberatory ways.
Join me for a 2-hour workshop to daylight some key themes we will explore in more depth in an upcoming 5-week course, Reclaiming Permaculture & Placemaking for Liberation - dates TBA.
Register via https://www.ic.org/event/place-justice/ or by clicking this link.
our blossoming creativity
the natural world is ablaze with colors that humans have used since ancient times. we will visit Flynne Olivarez at her Mariquita Medicinal flower farm, gently tend the land, and then work with plants to dye a silk scarf together.
Save the date. registration coming soon.
place justice series
Gift Economy with a suggested donation of *$5-$40
Registration coming soon.
*No one turned away for financial reasons.
Please email ridhidcruz@gmail.com for questions.
weaving together our collective liberation with Blackberry
join me and my wonderful co-facilitators for a day of tending blackberry. we will harvest blackberry for paper-making, make blackberry paper and embed them with native seeds, an also blackberry vine cordage. we will drink blackberry lemonade and discuss what blackberry teaches us about liberation. we will then letterpress one word onto pre-made blackberry paper as a reminder to ourselves as we re-write our stories of liberation.
sign up via bit.ly/collectiveliberation062922