A program to link indigenous peacemaking and regenerative culture + communication to local indigenous community buildings and communities.

Emerging Vision

This vision is evolving with input and approval by indigenous communities, and supported by regenerative and restorative justice communities.

• Establish a peacemaking program around relationship and community building in addition to conflict resolution and mediation.
• Establish a relationship between a local community and a national network of indigenous peacemaking facilitators with the support of Life Comes From It.
• Provide a Native American facilitated peacemaking program to a permanent Native American community building (ie roundhouse, sweat lodge, wigwam) serving the local community.
• Stewarded by Native American principles, as well as regenerative and restorative justice principles.
• Provide a meeting place for ceremonies held by indigenous leaders
• Bylaws, constitution, governance, cultural, communication, mediation, peacemaking agreements developed, facilitated and stewarded by the Native American community

What is Peacemaking?

Peacemaking is an ancient social practice embedded within Indigenous and non-Western societies. It is a process for solving problems and building community, bringing people together to talk from our deepest values and our best selves.

Indigenous Peacemaking

Aligned Organizations

• Regen Living - Regen Living is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
• Life Comes From It - “Life Comes From is a grantmaking circle that supports grassroots movement-building work rooted in lived experience and relationships for restorative justice, transformative justice, and indigenous peacemaking. We give grants solely to projects and organizations led by communities of color.”

Potential Sites

Roots To Sky Sanctuary - Roots to Sky Sanctuary (RTSS or “the Land”) is a BIPOC-owned partnership for social good. RTSS gathers decades of collective expertise in health and wellness, entrepreneurship, plant medicine, activism, food justice, restorative justice, education, and arts programming to create a cutting edge multi-use property serving local counties and our existing communities from metropolitan areas.

Temple Mother Earth - Temple Of Mother Earth (TME) is an international community gathering place for plant medicine and healing international plant medicine healing center created out of the need for more welcoming places serving for people of color. The founding Temple is based in a predominantly BIPOC neighborhood in Southeast Washington DC, offering multi-faceted healing modalities with a primary focus on sacred plant medicines. It is a safe container of spiritual resources and space holders to support everyone in its community as they step powerfully into their sovereignty.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative - LaLa Gardens Cooperative is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. It is reflective of hyper-local systems of partnership culture, membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.