Youth Passageways

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Youth Passageways We are also families and communities upon which those young people depend. Perhaps most importantly, we are youth themselves.

Now called Restoring Lifeways, our purpose is to build a network of material, interpersonal, and spiritual support around leaders and communities practicing both traditional and emergent forms of cultural healing and regeneration. Youth Passageways is an evolving network of individuals, organizations, and communities supporting the healthy passage of today’s young people through childhood and adolescence into mature adulthood. We are a cross-cultural and intergenerational network that includes a broad and diverse range of rite of passage, education, and youth and community development efforts joining together for mutual support, collaborative learning, resource and community development, and to cross-pollinate ideas and practices that foster the development of whole, healthy, and responsible human beings. We are rite of passage practitioners, youth workers, outdoor educators, counselors and therapists, educators, community organizers, scholars, elders, and many others who work to ensure young people grow up healthy, strong and resilient. Through holding space that calls on ALL voices from all stages of the life cycle, our mission and vision comes most fully alive. Our broadest aim is to revitalize rites of passage as an integral part of holistic human development on both an individual and cultural level. Ultimately, we seek to gain wider visibility for both time-tested and innovative rite of passage ideas, methods and practices and illuminate strategies to bring them to bear on the wider work of youth and community development.

This Indigenous People’s Day, we are honored to invite you to our next workshop featuring by the one and only Pat McCabe...
10/12/2026

This Indigenous People’s Day, we are honored to invite you to our next workshop featuring by the one and only Pat McCabe or Woman Stands Shining for a deep dive into the practices and frameworks that uphold indigenous sovereignty and consent.

Join us October 28th, 12–2 PM for our fall Collective Liberation Frameworks workshop🍃

We are so grateful to welcome Pat McCabe, one of the original co-authors of the Cross-Cultural Protocols, for a deep dive into Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC)—a foundational international human rights framework for upholding Indigenous sovereignty, cultural authority, and self-determination.

🌾 How can Indigenous practitioners use these frameworks to understand, assert, and protect their rights and cultural lifeways?

🌾 How can those working across cultures practice meaningful consent, honor cultural boundaries, and build relationships rooted in accountability rather than extraction?

Together, we’ll explore the historical and legal foundations of FPIC and how these principles can be put into practice in ceremony, community organizing, cultural work, and cross-cultural collaboration.
As culture workers and holders of community space, we need tools to uphold cultural sovereignty and navigate our responsibilities to one another with integrity.

✨ Join us for this important opportunity to learn, reflect, and strengthen our collective capacity for right relationship and liberation.

📅 Wednesday, October 28 | 12–2 PM

🔗 Register at the link in our bio!

Learn more about our Cross-Cultural Protocols at restoringlifeways.org/ccp or link in bio

Falltime greetings kin! 🍂✨Right now, the nights are as dark as the days are long, and the world is asking of us to learn...
10/10/2026

Falltime greetings kin! 🍂✨Right now, the nights are as dark as the days are long, and the world is asking of us to learn from this season of change as it seems like all things continue to move along what feels like a precipice. And yet, our ways of gathering in community and building safe, just, viable alternatives are popping up everywhere — just like the fruiting bodies of mycelium who thrive at this time of year. 

We continue to be astonished by the brilliance and huge-hearted ingenuity of every member of this community. The work happening for healing and transmutation of collective trauma. The culture-bearing and reclaiming of ancestral memory to meet the needs of the present moment.  The intergenerational gathering, learning and skilling-up for the times in which we find ourselves. 

This is our balancing act: holding steady in our hearts and relations as we face into the world’s unfolding, while we continue to do what it is we are each here to do — in service of more life, more thriving. Alone, it feels impossible, but together, the way becomes clear.

This is the prayer and the generative energy that binds us together as a network. If you are reading this, we invite you to join us. Can you help us make out $40k goal by October 15th? We have just received a $7k total matching donation, so everything you give between now and then counts for double. Give a fall gift at the link in our bio or athttps://restoringlifeways.org/support/
Thank you for helping us root more deeply into abundance and resilience this season!

With deeply rooted falltime dreaming,

the Restoring Lifeways Team

We are blown away by what this community has made possible. ❤️‍🔥🙏In just the final two days of our campaign, you helped ...
10/08/2026

We are blown away by what this community has made possible. ❤️‍🔥🙏

In just the final two days of our campaign, you helped us raise another $930! And on top of that incredible outpouring of support, generous members of our community have stepped forward with new $7,000 total matching donations! 💸🪄

That brings us so close to our $40,000 goal that we’ve decided: We’re extending the From the Roots Up campaign through October 15th!

We started this campaign with a big hope: that our wider community could come together to help sustain Restoring Lifeways and the grassroots leaders, culture-bearers, and community projects held within this network.
And you have shown up.
Every donation, every share, every email forwarded to a friend, every person who joined us for a campaign gathering, and every message of encouragement has reminded us of something at the heart of this work: it truly takes a village to sustain a movement.

To everyone who has already given: THANK YOU. We are so deeply grateful for the generosity and love that has carried this campaign this far.

Now, can you help us get all the way there?

Give today at the link in our bio or at
https://restoringlifeways.org/support/

This October, we’re gathering around the virtual fire with our amazing community of Restoring Lifeways Fiscal Sponsees (...
10/06/2026

This October, we’re gathering around the virtual fire with our amazing community of Restoring Lifeways Fiscal Sponsees (aka Trustees) and Stewardship Council members. 🔥

These gatherings are a chance to strengthen the relationships across our growing web—to learn more about one another’s work, spark new connections and collaborations, and share resources and support available through Restoring Lifeways.

Whether you’ve been part of this community for years or have only recently joined us, we’d love to have you there. 🧡

🍁 October 15th
⏰ 1–2:30 PM Pacific
💻 Online via Zoom

Open to all Restoring Lifeways Fiscal Sponsees/Trustees and Stewardship Council members.

Email [email protected] if you don’t already have the zoom link!

Come connect, share, and weave the web with us. 🕸️🍂🔥

Today is the LAST DAY to give to our fall crowdfunding campaign!! If you haven’t get given to our campaign, now is the t...
10/01/2026

Today is the LAST DAY to give to our fall crowdfunding campaign!! If you haven’t get given to our campaign, now is the time!!!

Giving is a thing we get to do from a place of joyful reciprocity to our community, and on this last day, we want to invite you into that story. Giving this campaign is a direct investment in the dozens of grassroots community projects bringing life and culture back to the people and the land!   

We are so incredibly grateful for everyone who has gotten us this far. What a beloved community we are weaving.

To learn more about the incredible projects we support making this world a more liberatory, thriving place, visit our website.

https://restoringlifeways.org/support

✨HAPPENING TOMORROW✨ Friends! We hope you can join us for our end-of-campaign celebration and community gathering — this...
09/29/2026

✨HAPPENING TOMORROW✨ Friends! We hope you can join us for our end-of-campaign celebration and community gathering — this will be such a joyous time to come together. We’ll hear from special guest storytellers and speakers, share in song and gratitude!

Free registration link in our bio! Join us!

09/23/2026

“…turning towards life, turning towards the well-being of earth and humans and all peoples in every way possible with a support of spirit and land and connection. What else would I want to be a part of sourcing and resourcing if not this kind of work in this time?”

Thank you for these wise words from Shilpa Jain and J. Miakoda Taylor for reminding us why this work is essential NOW!

We are so honored to get to be thought partners with extraordinary projects like Miakoda’s and know that it takes a village to be able to weave this web of support so that we can continue to show up for our partners and sponsees.

Friends, we are one week away from our October 31 deadline, and we need your help to get the rest of the way there! Can you give to our fall giving campaign? Every donation helps us get closer towards weaving this web of spiritual, administrative and infrastructural support in our movement ecosystem for grassroots leaders around the world!

Thank you for helping us make our movement strong stronger!

We are almost halfway to our $40k crowdfunding goal!!! 
🌏🪄💸🌀✨
We couldn’t have made it this far without the support near...
09/15/2026

We are almost halfway to our $40k crowdfunding goal!!! 
🌏🪄💸🌀✨

We couldn’t have made it this far without the support near and far of our beloved community — that means YOU! You all are showing us that it truly does take a village to sustain a movement. Restoring our faith in this powerful web of kin!! 

Now can you help us get the next half of the way there? We have TWO MORE WEEKS to meet our fundraising goal, and are depending upon the help of our people to keep spreading the word and donating what you can! Even $5, $10, $25 helps us! Our elders teach us that money is energy, and right now our main goal is to keep the energy flowing.

Thank you for helping us restore the roots of our network towards abundance!

Link to our campaign page in bio or at https://restoringlifeways.org/support

(Ps! We love this throwback memory from our gathering at the Ojai Foundation circle 2013. See yourself in this photo? Once a part of the family always a part of the family!)

09/10/2026

Dear ones! Today we are uplifting the work of beloved elders, Melissa and Wilbur Goodblanket who are working to build a healing center on their land in western Oklahoma the forced relocation lands of the Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples. We are trying to help them find someone who is experienced in regenerative agriculture to help them begin regenerating the soils on their lands so that they can grow food as a part of the healing center! Do you or someone you know have regenerative ag experience? If so, let us connect you! Thanks for helping us weave this web of support!

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As a part of our From the Roots Up Campaign, we are uplifting the stories and projects of our beloved community members as we call a mutual aid and community care to resource our network.

You can give to our From the Roots Up campaign by going to the link in our bio to help resource our amazing network of projects like this one!

thank you for your support, restoring lifeways from the roots up 🪾🌱🌀

09/09/2026

Julian and Kendra’s words say it all. 🫂💟🐎🕸️

We are not just a network, we’re a family. And everything we do is rooted in relationships of trust. Through stories like Kendra’s we remember what our work at Restoring Lifeways is all about making more life possible — more healing and opportunity for so many that are working and building community on the frontlines. We are weaving a web of support around leaders like Kendra so that they can feel supported spiritually, relationally, administratively and financially to do their deepest soul’s work in the world.

By supporting Restoring Lifeways you are supporting dozens of communities and leaders like Kendra and the Be Free Foundation. To learn more about our work visit our website (link in bio) and give to our Fall Giving Campaign today!

We have three more weeks to meet our goal of 40k by October 1st, and we’re over 1/4th of the way there! Can you help us by giving today and sharing this campaign?

We have met our first $5k match (hurrah!) and are looking for a new matching donor too!

To help resource our networks from the roots up, visit us here! (Link in bio)

https://restoringlifeways.org/support/

Stories from Kendra Drysdale
Video magic by the incredible Santeena Pugliese

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