JustLiving: Toppenish Creek Landscape

Learning and understanding place, indigeneity, and the natural is different for each of us.  This gathering is for people and groups who desire natural and native relationship.  Yet find charitable, worktrip and academic models more systemic than creational.  Honoring the conversational, questioning and mystical, folk will gather to better know themselves and their place prior to visiting the place of another.

SEASON 1 | GERMINATING

Discover limiting systemic, institutional, ethical, and societal structures that conditions us to acquire self-limiting and oppressive beliefs. Shatter the infringing box and recognize new ways of being relational in your own community.  Learn to converse and have your community become energetically, emotionally, physically, spiritually ready to engage change. Become people who live with intention to promote justice.

SEASON 2 | AUTHENTICITY

Develop vision and language to exist more authentically for the sake of others.  Dig into your roots and discover your communities “why.” Open yourselves to your unique authority, strength and skillset.  Create community structure that encourages landscape wellbeing.

SEASON 3 | LANDSCAPE

Expand awareness of your actual landscape.  Learn the Natural of creation and how it promotes Healer identity.  Hear hidden ancestorial stories.  Awaken to the kinship of Life.  Imagine the Mystical.  Know the kinship of place

SEASON 4 | LANDING

Find ties binding your inner-self to the lives of Others.  Activate your imagination of whole community.  Recognize community indigeneity.  Discern creative vision of landscape.  Begin conversing with the Life of your place.  Enter spaces other than your own with wonder, awe, and curiosity.  Engage place and experience its embrace.

What does Toppenish Creek program include?
1.  Live Monthly online group sessions
2.  Three-Day Gathering at JustLiving Farm

JustLiving programs aim to foster community where Life feels valued, supported, and inspired to engage their authentic gifts.  We strive to provide opportunity and access for all people—across differences of race, age, color, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, migratory status, disability/abilities, and socioeconomic background.
Toppenish Creek is of Yakama Nation landscape.  As at home, we are here to help you learn about and honor ancestors, hear landscape’s rooted wisdom, and open the interior to an ancient land’s peace.
 
Together, for one year, we will nurture learning and community.  We will move toward natural wholeness, care, and finding our natural in the place we live. 

Here is some of what you will accomplish:

• Learn to use your LANDSCAPE and SEASONALITY as the foundation for change, growth and impact
• Learn how to nurture your communities authenticity
• Develop knowledge on systemic and institutional oppression
• Own  your groups unique strengths and realize vision

• Message in a powerful way
• Learn to tackle guilt, shame and perfectionism to become better community
• Reconnect and nurture the relationship with nature and your community!

This Program Is For You If: 

• Your group is looking for an ethical framework that includes creation!
• Your group ready to trade cynicism for useful optimism
• Your group strives to make community a priority
• Your group wants to exist in the “why” and have a clear vision of natural existence
• Your group is willing to be courageous at being different
• Your group wants to be energized and help others live a joyful life!

This is NOT for you if:

• Your group wants a modality of a “worktrip or mission-trip or engage in charity”
• Your group has the inherent belief that caring for others is more important than caring for self
• You’re not ready to put in the work to delve into the messiness and discomfort of growth

 

We are told again and again that we have to find answers outside of ourselves. When you JustLive Your Landscape, you uncover deep wisdom of place and true strength of community. You begin trusting yourself, your community, and your ability to tap into the natural wisdom of your landscape.  And you and your community begin to live as the Natural intended.