KinMakers Don’t Retreat
We Return
What is a KinMaker?
We are are all the grandchildren of Indigenous Grandmothers — those first weavers of life who lived in reciprocity with natural systems.
No matter our lineage, we each contain the social-psychological technology that makes us human, in the collective.
To be a KinMaker is to remember what it means to be human even in the time 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 support the repair and reimagining of life ways in connection with the more-than-human?
Through reflection, relationship, and right action, KinMakers create the conditions to remember who we really are.
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
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?