Youth Passageways

05/21/2026

Community! Restoring Lifeways is co-hosting this powerful three-part webinar series to transform conflict into opportunity held by J. Miakoda Taylor! Join us!

So many of us prefer to avoid conflict. That aversion has reached its breaking point. It is time to accept and skillfully engage the tensions inherent in our relationships and our communities as opportunities.
In this webinar series, J. Miakoda Taylor, nationally renowned conflict transformation coach, consultant, and facilitator, will share 3 stand-alone webinars, each offering a different set of conflict preparedness practices for:

    •    Staying in our body, in relationships, and in the conversation
    •    Accounting for power and risk differentials
    •    Holding ourselves accountable for any harmful impacts of our choices

These practices are designed to position each of us to effectively meet the moments of tension that arise in our relationships with skillfulness, embodiment, accountability, and a commitment to transformative justice.

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04/02/2026

Your daily reminder that we got US. 💪❤️‍🔥🕸️

Join us next Thursday for a time to gather and collectivize as a network. Together we are greater than the sum of our parts.

And if you are not a sponsee but want to learn more, DM us!

04/01/2026

Happy spring from the Restoring Lifeways fam! As life begins to push the cracks, so too are our hearts cracked open. We grieve the lives lost in so many places these days. We stand in prayer and solidarity with all those all people’s movements globally fighting for sovereignty on behalf of life. For all those mobilizing to protect land and water from extraction, to make room for more freedom in more bodies. These movements remind us of the burgeoning persistence of springtime. The way life somehow still finds a way through the cracks of empire.

As a community we are doing our best to stay rooted in the grace as well as the grief during this turn in the season.  We invite you to join us in bearing witness to this extraordinary paradox. This balance of darkness and light that is the shift from winter into spring.  We are brewing beautiful things for the season to come, including our first fundraising campaign in over three years… life is sprouting all around and it’s time to nourish our roots! Stay in the story with us… ✍️✨

02/26/2026

The more-than-human world offers medicines for healing and supporting our bodies, minds, and spirits.  Systems of oppression, including colonialism, capitalism, the War on Drugs, and the pharmaceutical industry, have distorted our collective relationships with these plant and chemical allies. Some medicines carry significant social stigma related to race, culture, and class. These realities have created a social and cultural context in which abuse of, and addiction to, medicines has enormous and lasting impacts on our communities.*

How do we learn to hold plant medicines within cultural and site-specific protocols?

How do we consider a range of experiences and needs to create more liberatory, safe and harm-reductive spaces?

— from patients who rely on mind and mood altering medicines to those healing from addiction (and/or proximity to addiction) in their own lives?  

These are some of the questions we will be asking this March during our next session of the Cross Cultural Protocols Series. A session by and for members of our network — community builders, ceremonialists and facilitators who are all interfacing with this inquiry in their work.

It’s such a timely and necessary conversation. We hope you can join us! link in bio 🔗 🍃

02/24/2026

Our partners at Nourishing Futures are about to launch the next cohort of Re-Calling Our Ancestors! Registration for this month-long course is now open.
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Join the Re-Calling Our Ancestors team this coming spring, March 19th - April 16th, 2026, for a moon cycle of community exploration and ritual inquiry in ancestral recovery, truth-telling, and collective repair designed for white, white-passing, and white-proximate people committed to dismantling systems of oppression in ourselves and in the world around us, as well as in our communities of practice and in the bodies of work we carry. 

Following the waxing and waning of the moon, we’ll gather via zoom on Thursdays at 10am - noon Pacific Time (1-4pm Eastern, 6-8pm Greenwich Mean Time) to explore the earth-cherishing traditions of our ancestors, the harm our ancestors endured, the harm our ancestors caused, and the ways our ancestors resisted and persisted along the way. 

“We approach our ancestors not as detectives gathering information but as descendants committed to relationship.” - Shay Sloan Clarke, Re-Calling Our Ancestors Core Guide

Through a series of online sessions, home study and practice, one-on-one peer support, and small group mentorship, we will honor the lineages that we’ve inherited, lay down the inheritances which no longer serve, and hold space for the grief—and relief—of letting go. 

Collectively, we are building a community of practice rooted in each of our own lineages of blood, land, and path, encouraging and supporting each other in the work of cultural renewal and repair. It is through shared study, community witness, and group accountability that we do our work as white, white-passing, and white-assimilated folks to build anti-racist culture rooted in connection with our ancestors and future descendants (both human and more-than-human).

02/14/2026

Happy V-Day! 💋❤️‍🔥💕 In honor of this day of love, we are so excited to announce the birthing of a new protocol into our Cross Cultural Protocols! The first time in 10 years! It is a protocol to honor the life-affirming expression of sexuality across nature and human cultures, and invite us into deeper more radical healing and decolonial practice in orienting to it. This protocol aims to support community space holders to find a healthy way of relating to it so that we can create life-affirming sexual wellness culture together.

02/12/2026

Where cultural joy and more-than-human-joy meet— our favorite 🥹🥹🥹

02/12/2026