Kinship: Return
Journey to a wild and alive place with master facilitators and cultural guides.
Nourish with bespoke food from the land, prepared with traditional and cultural land stewards
Connect with nature through the body and senses.
Enjoy rest, creative time and restorative practices,
Follow traditional land guides to sacred places,
Witness indigenous innovations that hold potential for all life, women and youth in co-creation
Life as Value: Connecting Wealth and Life Stewards
80% of the Earth’s biodiversity is stewarded by indigenous peoples and ways, 46% of the worlds’ monetary wealth is stewarded by the 1% wealthiest people and families on Earth.
What if we defined life as value and formed a deep collaboration between life and wealth stewards?
Connecting with our own indigenous roots can open new realms of potential. Though our lineage was broken we each carry cellular memories of reciprocity with all life.
We come together to immerse in harmony with wild places and traditional land stewards, to break bread, deepen our senses, and explore our own potential to unleash the flourishing of life.
Savory
Serene
Sacred
In 2024 we have three exquisite options, available individually or as part of an Ancestral Wisdom Sabbatical.
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Nalubaale: Mother of Guardian Gods
March 15- 22, Uganda. An inner and outer journey around the shores and islands of Lake Victoria or Nalubaale. Join indigenous guardians from many continents and celebrated Bagandan Buddhist Monk, Bhante Buddharakkhita as we practice indigenous design and sacred return on the vernal equinox.
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Lughnasadh: Animism and Celtic Soul
Join Lydia Campbell for a taste of the seasonal alchemy of Ireland from July 27-August 2 in County Wicklow. For those of us from a western lineage reconnecting with our Celtic and Nordic roots can open new realms of creativity and joy. We gather for the high harvest season of Ireland, in a place where the land still acts upon the body with profound effect.
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Aotearoa: Land of Clouds
In early 2025 we are convening in the majestic beauty of New Zealand with Maori leaders to connect with mana and explore a prehistoric bio-corridor that is under threat.
Our host, Reconnecting Northland, catalyzes the impact of communities across Te Tai Tokerau to revitalize biodiversity on behalf of nature and the generations to come.
We don’t retreat… we return
Biodiversity, or the variety of all living things on our planet, is declining at an alarming rate due to human activities such as land use changes, pollution and climate change. These activities are entirely legal and incentivized by our financial system.
The World Bank and the UNDP, among others, recognize indigenous approaches and ancestral practices to achieve biodiversity and climate stability as more effective. 80% of Earth’s remaining biodiversity is stewarded by Indigenous Peoples.
Only 1% of global development aid goes to indigenous communities to develop their technologies.
Every Return provides generous funding to indigenous and ancestral land stewards to continue their lifeways.
“The measure of our compassion lies not in our service of those on the margins, but in our willingness to see ourselves in kinship. And so… movement towards awe, and giant steps away from judgment.”
— - Fr. Greg Boyle, Homeboy Industries, 2013, On Being with Krista Tippet”