Tapping the roots of well-being can be difficult and lonely but it does not have to be. This gathering is about the practice of becoming whole while building capacity for radical times. Providing a basis for the ethics of community care, this gathering teaches professional helpers how to prevent and heal from burnout by way of connecting what has been lost or severed. We use a multitude of ancient perspectives centering around collective and individual storytelling, creativity, body movement, sharing, holding, play, and rest to facilitate your exploration of well-being. ➜ Learn more and register

This gathering is for mothers of any gender who grieve for any reason. Too many mothers give endlessly until running on empty without the knowledge or energy to replenish. Losses might be close to home, like miscarriage, infertility, or death of a loved one. Perhaps you've forgotten pieces of a self once known and need to find yourself again. The loss may be compounded because there is no resolution. Know that you are not alone. This workshop will provide you with opportunities to voice your suffering and be compassionately heard, tended, comforted. Tools will be shared to process your grief and find healing. Most importantly, you will find community. ➜ Learn more and register

Sitting in circle is a time-honored, ancient practice that allows people in community to be compassionately held in both their joy and grief. You may bring anything to the circle, including your silence, and there is no requirement to speak. We sit together allowing what emerges without judgment.

In this way, Tender Roots offers a weekly sit every Tuesday from 7 to 9 PM. The doors will stay open the entire time to come as you are and leave as you must. There will be a welcoming and greeting that you are in the right place. You may sit or lay down, find a posture that feels good in the moment. We’ll find our breath together. We will share in each other's pain, grief, joys, dreams, let downs and gratitude as we tend. We will look first with our eyes and then our hearts. No prerequisites, no experience needed to come.

If you feel moved, bring a candle, something to write with, comfort items, and anything you need in your space as we gather. At this time, all Tender Sits are virtually held on Zoom. Please email us at info@tender-roots.org, and we will send you the Zoom link to join us.

Are you a Community Healer? Are you a Culture Bearer? Would you like to join us in monthly network gatherings?

We fully recognized the excellent healing work done in and around the Twin Cities, and we don't always know what each other are doing. We want to bring people together to share what they've been up to so we can support each other with referrals, donations, collaboration, spreading the word, laying on of hands, sending good energy, or whatever makes sense. We want to connect and bring healers and culture bearers together to sit in circle and share our stories of success and challenge. We want to provide space where we can all get to know each other and our visions better. Can we dream the future together? What would an integrated network of healers look like? Will you join us?

How: Via Zoom. Please email us at infor@tender-roots.org for dates and times and to receive the Zoom link.