KinMakers Don’t Retreat
We Return
What is a KinMaker?
We believe that we are all the grandchildren of Indigenous GrandMothers — those first weavers of life who remembered how to live in reciprocity with Earth, water, and sky.
No matter our culture or background we can access those memories, both lived and embodied.
To be a KinMaker is to learn to remember despite generations of forgetting, to step back into relationship with all that lives, and to take one’s place in the reweaving of the human family within the living world.
KinMakers bring ourselves — our stories, gifts, questions — into this time of great change with openness and humility. We begin with living questions:
What am I in service to?
How can I remove myself from systems of harm and control, so that life ways can be remembered and new ones grown from the brilliance and beauty of who we really are now ?
Through reflection, relationship, and right action, KinMakers help create the conditions for emergence — for the tender shoots of care, protection, and creativity to rise through the cracks of the old world.
KinMakers Receive
One of the greatest tasks for KinMakers is to learn how to receive the gifts of the collective. So many of us have been conditioned to believe we should stay hidden and not have needs. To not be a bother. In this way we are out of community and out of the sharing that is needed to repair life cycles.
Indigenous Commons’ relationship with KinMakers unfolds slowly, through trust, reflection, and shared creation. We encourage you to receive so much we have to offer:
Virtual Circles of Remembering — intimate online gatherings to reconnect with ancestry, values, and reciprocity.
Seasonal In-Person Gatherings — rematriating embodied experiences like KinKitchen and Kinship Returns that root unlearning and learning in place.
Relational Exchange with KinHubs — deepening trust through direct collaboration and mutual learning.
Coaching and Counsel — ongoing mentorship and reflection within the Indigenous Commons network.
Co-Design and Collaboration — creating systems that weave ancestral wisdom with modern innovation and Co Liberation practice for power - with organizing in service to life.
Tending a Sacred Fire
Jason Jacobs, Maori Elder Guardian explains KinMakers tend a sacred fire that offers sustenance for the whole community.
The more you show up to the fire, the deeper the conversation and collaboration with us grows. Whoever is at the fire will be in the tending.
Our journey together is not transactional or scheduled by time, but guided by relational readiness. Together we ask the same questions our founding Guardians asked, when we first were born:
What does it mean to be human and who do we aspire to become as humanity?
What can we learn from nature and ancestral wisdom traditions to design systems of collaboration in symbiosis with all life?
How can we integrate technologies of the ancestral and modern worlds?
How do we transform money into a nurturing stream of water to regenerate seasons of life and death?