ReStorying Ecological Interdependence
ReMatriating Mother Earth:
All Healing, Heals All
May 22-25, 2025
Through ReMatriating Practices We seek to Honor and reCreate PeaceFull, SustainAble and Inclusive Indigenist Knowledges: We Honor our Gender Fluid and Earth Loving Ancestral Connections. We know: Resisting All Forms of Domination is Necessary for our Collective emPowerment.
Join us for a LandCentred Healing Arts Retreat. We will creatively Weave Ceremony, Songs, Story, Ancient Symbols, EcoArting and Feasting that reAwakens our emBodied Connection to the Sacred Powerful Energies of Divine Creation. Together We will reWeave our Shared Web of Life: All Healing Heals All.
What You'll Need to Know
May 22-25, 2025
Location: Camp Kidston, 7429 Mooseland Rd, Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia
Driving Directions to Camp Kidston
- All participants get full programming and food.
- Mi’kma’ki scholarships and sliding-scale available. (See section below.)
- Accommodation at Camp Kidston. (Dorm-style, bunk beds in cabins. You must provide your own bedding.)
- Open to 30 participants.
- All genders, families, people of all ages and stages of life are welcome here!
All accommodation and meals are included in the registration fee.
Dorm-style, bunk beds in cabins. You must provide your own bedding.
Funding for Sixties Scoop Survivors
Through a generous grant from the Sixties Scoop Survivors Healing Foundation of Canada we are able to provide registration to this event at no cost to Survivors, families, including those considered family and descendants.
If you are eligible, indicate so on the registration form.
Mi’kma’ki Reciproci.Tree Scholarship
LIFE as Medicine values that we are living, breathing, co-creating, and playing within beautiful Lands of Mi’kma’ki, ancestral, traditional, and current territories of Mi’kmaw Peoples. We acknowledge, appreciate, and honour that these Lands have been cared for, by, and with Mi’kmaw Peoples for thousands of years. As a form of actualizing this acknowledgment into action, and Honouring Spirit of ethical Reciprocity, we aspire to waive fees for Mi’kmaw community members. We are seeking your assistance to make possible offering scholarships (free entrance, including accommodation and food) for Mi’kmaw adults, youth, and families wishing to participate in our Land-Centred Healing Retreat weekend experience.
If you are interested in receiving a scholarship, please email us and we will send you an application.
If you are interested in sponsoring a scholarship or donating to the event or the ongoing work of LIFE as Medicine, please contact us.
Reciproci.Tree Sliding Scale
Mother Earth teaches us to work in harmony and with one another…The sacred covenant we have with Mother Earth should never be taken for granted as she provides all our medicines and sustains life. The principle of reciprocity asks that we never take without giving in return…
Elder Betty Letendre–Sacred Star Woman
In Spirit of Reciprocity, or Reciproci.Tree, we have created a sliding scale for Me as Tree: We as Forest. Paying a little more contributes to Reconcili.Action and also helps offset costs for those who would not be able to attend our event otherwise because of limited access to resources. Contributing money, time, labour, and material goods are ways of helping LIFE as Medicine cover costs of events and continue our work within Communities.
Please use our Seasonal Reciproci.Tree Sliding Scale Guide below to determine which Season best represents your current situation and select one option accordingly in the registration form below.
To see which Reciproci.Tree resonates with you, consider the Tree with most statements that reflect your current situation. Not every statement may resonate, so consider the Tree that represents best at this time.
Fall Generosi.Tree
Price: $888
Generosi.Tree has reached a place of fullness and is able to generously offer ripe fruits and share colorful leaves with Forest.
- I have substantial earning power due to education, gender identity, racial privilege, family connections, or physical abilities, and a steady income stream.
- I consider the cost of this Offering to be an act of Reciprocity and Responsibility, acknowledging that resources are not equitably distributed.
- I am inspired to generously share my abundance as part of my personal Reconcili.Action practice, in solidarity with Indigenous communities and land-based healing.
Summer Relationali.Tree
Price: $777
Relationali.Tree is a lush, vibrant Green and well on its way to producing Fruits. This Tree provides shade and shelter to Forest in Spirit of Relationality.
- I have the ability to comfortably cover my basic needs and some expendable income that enhances my life.
- I have funds to support my personal healing or professional development.
- I have the capacity and desire to share and I am inspired to share my access to resources as part of my personal ReconciliAction practice, in solidarity with Indigenous communities and land-based healing.
Spring Sustainabili.Tree
Price: $666
Sustainabili.Tree is budding and beginning to grow Leaves and Flowers, has enough to be sustainable, and is not yet full of Foliage or Fruit.
- I have an income and can cover my needs, and do not have substantial savings.
- I have housing stability and food security.
- I can cover the financial costs associated with my individual or family participation in this event (food, rent, materials, facilitation, etc.) and I am willing to make an investment in my wellness.
Winter Communi.Tree
Communi.Tree is surviving Winter and conserving energy in order to sustain immediate needs. While Communi.Tree may not be abundant, many Gifts are still Offered to Forest, such as presence, strength, rootedness, and groundedness.
- I experience frequent stress about sustaining immediate needs (food, shelter, transportation, childcare).
- I am an unpaid community organizer.
- I have little to no income/no support and/or I am unemployed/underemployed.
If you would like to apply as a Communi.Tree ~ Winter participant, please do not use the registration form. Instead, contact Kathy.
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