In Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti invites readers into the work of tenderly extracting ourselves from modernity. She frames this as a “different way of breathing together, where we learn from the wrongs and mistakes of the past so that we can only make new mistakes in the future.” In this practice group, we will create ritual space for exploring into these layers of inquiry. Together, we will learn and unlearn, grieve and heal, and metabolize and compost those colonial habits which we seek to release. This journey will be held within the container of the Expanded Spiral of the Work That Reconnects.

Co-facilitated by Frieda Nixdorf and Wren Ribeiro.

🌀 8 weeks of practice within the realm of Hospicing Modernity and the Work That Reconnects
🌀 8 weekly 120-minute Zoom sessions - a space for landing, ritual, connection, practice and sharing
🌀 Collective handbook of resources, practices and guides
🌀 Signal group space for connection, support and engagement between sessions

This series runs on Wednesdays: March 5 through April 30. We will not meet on April 16. We will meet for two hours beginning at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT. Check here to see what time this is for you.

We are offering this 8-week program on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale of $119 – $249.

Please note where you align and contribute accordingly to either Frieda (via PayPal) OR Wren (via via Venmo @innerfortune #3892). If this payment presents a hardship to you and you feel strongly called to join this offering, please send us an email (friedalouise@gmail.com and innerfortune@gmail.com). 

Your facilitators: Frieda Nixdorf and Wren Ribeiro.

Frieda is committed to drawing community into transformational experiences to remember our belonging, our interdependence, and our kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, Frieda has studied art, religion, psychology, yoga and the intricacies of beautiful and broken world around her. She has taught Eastern and Western Psychology at several community colleges, and Soul Purpose at the graduate level, and has been incorporating WTR practices into everything she does since she first met Joanna Macy in graduate school in 2002. Frieda facilitates WTR and Soul Purpose workshops and serves as a Weaver on the WTR Network team.

Frieda currently resides on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Nisenan People, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California. Frieda lives with her small family of three humans, two dogs, three chickens and more plant and animal beings than she can count.

Wren looks forward to the day when the urgent pursuits of racialized, gendered, and land justice calm into steady streams of respectful entanglement. Their deepest joy is to witness beings rise to their truest, kindest agency. Wren has degrees in interpersonal communication and business administration and a varied career path from marketing and banking to renewable energies and community organizing which compel them toward co-creating beauty and grieving what is broken – with her grandson’s future in mind.

Wren is passionate about healing relations with European American ancestors as far as 16 generations back and lives in Western Massachusetts near the Kwinetikw river.