Craft Of CounciL

More than just a process of passing a talking piece, council is a ceremonial offering of reverence and communion.

Ceremony alone is a potent way of being in stirring conversation with Mystery and nature, of invoking the Sacred, of gifting our ecological selves in a rapturous participatory dance with all that is.   When council is consciously conducted as ceremony, participants enter into this dance, surrendering to the magic of being alive and to being shaped by the depths. Voicing and moving from that source are exquisite and consciousness-shifting.

Ceremonial council invites us to put aside the strategic mind, to step outside of our daily lives, to drop into our own depths, to be worked by forces beyond our human minds, and to say yes to being surprised and changed in sacred reciprocity.

As much as it is a practice of speaking from the heart, ceremonial council is also a practice of listening from our roots, of tracking each other, of beholding each being as truly holy.

Council allows us – as guides and facilitators – to hold deep and non-hierarchical spaces, where profound communication happens, where everyone is equal, valued, seen as a sacred being, and where all the other-than-humans are cherished, invited  and listened to.