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Passages
Community Studies
Made for your deepest curiosities
Open Studies are monthly workshops, conversations, and introductory teachings offered through Passages. These gatherings create accessible entry points into ancestral studies, earth-based cosmology, embodiment, mythic inquiry, and depth psychology as lived practice.
Some Open Studies are offered freely as a gesture of reciprocity and collective learning. Others are low-cost community workshops designed to support sustained study, integration, and dialogue.
Together, they serve as a foundational layer within the Passages learning ecosystem.
Open Studies may include:
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Monthly live workshops
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Free public webinars
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Guest teachers and collaborators
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Lecture-style teachings
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Conversational dialogues
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Guided reflections or embodied practices
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Opportunities to continue into deeper study
The Anthropology of Death
A recurring series exploring death, grief, funerary traditions, ancestor relationships, and initiation across cultures. These studies approach death as a teacher and a threshold, weaving anthropology, cosmology, and depth psychology.
Womb Consciousness
A series devoted to the womb as a site of memory, descent, creation, and cosmological intelligence. Topics may include menstrual cycles, the womb–grave relationship, embodiment, and the feminine mysteries across cultures.
Myth, Story & the Psyche
A series examining mythic narratives, archetypes, and the symbolic language of the psyche. These gatherings explore how story shapes identity, transformation, and the inner life through a depth-psychological and ancestral lens.
Plantcestors
A series centered on The Plant Kingdom as Master teachers. These studies explore reciprocity, ceremony, ecology, and ethical relationship with the living world.
Lineage, Land & Belonging
A series exploring ancestry, place, biocultural identity, and what it means to live in right relationship with land, culture, and memory. These studies support clarity around belonging and responsibility.
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Fall Semester
A season devoted to cultivating sensitivity
How do we cultivate the sensitivity to be moved by life?
This semester invites us to slow down, to listen, and to enter into relationship with the living world through reciprocity, ancestry, ritual, community, and the body.
Our Pathways begin by cultivating attention, presence, and the capacity to feel.
Semester Community Studies
BRAIDING
SWEETGRASS
Begins September 11 ·
6-Month Community Study ·
3 Wisdom Keepers ·
Two Fridays a Month at 11 AM
Free Introduction: August 18th
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Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass offers an invitation to reconsider our relationship with the living world through Indigenous knowledge, ecological science, and the practice of reciprocity.
Over the course of nine months, we will move through the book slowly, gathering twice each month in community to read, reflect, and discuss its teachings alongside guest wisdom keepers, anthropological perspectives, and ecological inquiry. Together we ask how gratitude, attention, and reciprocity become daily practices capable of reshaping the ways we inhabit the Earth.
Braiding Sweetgrass is the gateway community study for the Nature Literacy Pathway. Although it is not required, it offers a shared foundation in reciprocity, ecological thought, and relational ways of knowing that enrich advanced studies, field schools, and research residencies.
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Fall Monthly Journeys
September
Envisioning
September 14–26: Tz'ikin
Relational Studies with Cacao + Community + The Mayan Chol'qij Calendar
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Over thirteen days, we enter into a shared practice of cacao, reflection, and community guided by the wisdom of Tz'ikin, the eagle.
Together we explore vision not simply as sight, but as the capacity to perceive patterns, widen perspective, and imagine new possibilities in relationship with the living world.
The Living Council is our free monthly community gathering and an open invitation to pause, reflect, and learn together.
Guided by the Cholq'ij Mayan calendar, we explore the seasonal energies, the movement of time, and the ways life is meeting each of us in the present moment.
Together, we share conversation, questions, cacao, and community as we cultivate a living relationship with the cycles that shape our inner and outer worlds.
Some meetings will be guided by Passages Wisdom Keepers.
The Living Council
Free Community Gathering
First Sunday of every month