The Center embodies more of an underlying ethos than a Westernized “mission” statement. Here are some of the overarching goals and principles of the Center:
• Fostering intercultural learning and networking opportunities for people from different life paths, cultures, paradigms, and perspectives to be and dream together in intentionally curated ways and spaces to build the cooperative networks we need.
• Intentional cultivation of a collaborative, cooperative, living and learning space where Changemakers can come to reset and clear old traumas so that they can step deeper into their work in the world.
• Global focus, locally rooted.
• Free of cost to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, low-income changemakers, frontline activists, and cultural workers.
• Rooted in Black, Indigenous, AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander), Global South, and POC (People of Color) perspectives, paradigms, and teachings.
• A living and learning environment that actively models radical interconnectedness of mind, body, heart, and spirit to plant the seeds of social transformation. A call to remember the old/new ways of being in community.
• Guided by a Council (in Western terms, a Board of Directors) that embody many life paths and cultural traditions.
• Grounded in principles of right relationship—right relationship with ourselves, each other, and all sentient beings.
• It is modeled in reciprocity, interdependence, interconnectedness, and collaboration principles. These are qualities of the Divine Feminine suppressed after generations of colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy.
• A reclamation of the commons. A place for cultural workers, writers, theorists, artists, and visionaries to come on retreat with the option to lead classes and programs that put forth their teachings, especially as they are heart-guided and rooted in disrupting binary logics of destructive, oppressive systems.
• The Center works very closely with the land as a friend and accomplice, implementing Indigenous farming methods, working with sacred herbs and plants, operating off-grid, and using sustainable building materials and methods.
• Najat Croll, Trish’s partner, is utilizing her training in green design/build practices to implement infrastructure that aligns with the principle of right relationship, and leading free BIPOC build programs.
