Schedule

Recent and Upcoming Events

• Mending the Web in Soulful Life

  Applications Open Through Mid-October/Wednesdays, 1:30-3:00pm MT

  This is an opportunity to work the rich loam of soul on an ongoing basis in a community of practice and care. We draw upon a wealth of materials, including work our advisor, Francis Weller, has presented over the years. Over the past four+ years, in our network and live Convivium calls we’ve built a rich and deep communal web with connections all over the world. It’s a house of belonging that’s soulful and sacred, a unique experience that’s co-held with compassion and reciprocity.

  Our October – December theme is Mending the Web: Communal Practices for Rupture, Repair, and Belonging. Kai Cheng Thom will be joining us for five weeks as a guest guide, and Naila Francis and Cassandra Lam will be joining us as co-hosts.

  For more information: https://soulfullife.mn.co/

• Tending the Long Dark: Offering Our Grief, Seeding Liberation

  October 18, 2025/Community Ritual

  We cannot carry our sorrows alone. This ritual offers a space to honor the Long Dark, make offerings from our grief, and plant seeds for a liberatory future.

  *This is a private, community-centered ritual. We hope to hold another grief ritual in Durango, Colorado in 2026 that will have space for public sign-ups. 

• TENDERS: A 5-day hide tanning, grief tending retreat

  Tuesday, July 14 - Saturday, July 18, 2026 (estimate)/New Mexico or Colorado (TBD)

  For the second year in a row, an intimate group of grief tenders will gather for five transformative days of deep remembering and fortification. TENDERS is a gentle group ritual for those called to work with grief in their communities. We’ll immerse ourselves in the ancient craft of hide tanning, working the hides while also working with our personal and collective griefs.

  By combining hide tanning and grief tending, we’ll discover what needs to be witnessed and what needs to soften for us to show up fully for The Long Dark. Together, we’ll tan sheep hides that can hold us in our softness, and help us expand our capacity to be with the sorrows of these times. This is a convergence of the wild and the sacred, where ancestral wisdom meets present calling.

  *Dates and location for 2026 will be solidified by end of 2025. Current dates listed are an estimate. 

  For more information: https://hollytruhlar.com/hide-tanning-grief-tending

• Unravel | Entangle: Not-So-Curated Conversations about Collapse

  Tuesday Evenings/6:30-7:45pm MT

  Join us for intimate conversations about inhabiting these times of profound change, loss, and possibility together. Every Tuesday evening, we’ll create a communal container where uncertainty is welcomed, relationships are centered, and the mess of collapse becomes our teacher.

  Through conversation, imagination, and embodied practice, we’ll gather around questions like: What if we welcomed both the unpredictable and unimaginable? What is the underculture we want to root in during this time of the Long Dark? What opens up when we shift from problem-solving to mutual learning in the face of polycrisis?

  If this stirs something in you, we’d love to have you join us in this experiment. For more information: https://unravelentangle.mn.co/

• Entering the Healing Ground: Grief Ritual Leadership Training

  Self Paced Course/Online

  This course emerges from over twenty-five years of experimentation in the territory of ritual process. It is an immersion in the direct application of ritual to the various conditions our communities face. While our focus is on grief rituals, the core elements of this training can extend to wider circumstances.

  In a time of cultural and environmental trauma, we must revision practices of communal recalibration. Rituals were the means by which the village would re-regulate itself following any form of traumatic encounter. Recalling the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides at the core of our psychic lives, is central to finding our way through the whitewater of these times.

  Adapted from our live five-month online training, this course offers teachings and experiential work that provide guidance on how to navigate the intense terrain that is ushered in by grief ritual space. Throughout each module we utilize poetry, ritual, somatic practices, and imagination to deepen your learning.

  For more information: https://enteringthehealingground.thinkific.com/courses/GriefRitualTraining