Rituals of Renewal
A four-part series of live
fireside conversations
on Indigenist Economic Futures
November 20 - December 4, 2025
Reconnecting
Wealth to Life
Rituals of Renewal, a series of fireside conversations, will explore Indigenist economic futures — where Spirit, Story, Systems, and Structure come together to restore well-relationship between people, planet, and prosperity
Each session centers one KinHub and the Indigenous Commons Guardian representing it.
KinHubs are Indigenous-led
movements that move money back to land and life through the GrandMothering Economy, a living architecture of care, reciprocity, and regeneration.
Witness the living ties that make regenerative finance and
Indigenous self determination multipliers for equity, belonging, and life itself - for all of us.
Thursday, November 20: 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Healing the Wounds of Separation: Indigenous Pathways of Renewal from Uganda to the World
with Bhante Buddharakkhita, director of Uganda Buddhist Center (UBC).
Hosted by Skeena Rathor, Elder Guardian and Matricultural Visionary
The Uganda Buddhist Center is a cross-cultural portal in the GrandMothering Economy — where mindfulness, land stewardship, and community care become tools of cultural repair. This session explores:
Indigenous approaches to trauma healing through mindfulness, meditation, and relationship with nature.
Spiritual ecology as a practice of kinship — connecting across culture, ancestry, and geography.
Spirit-centered design: how sacred practice, community feasting, and ceremony rebuild the nervous system of society.
The role of faith as a unifying language between worlds in times of ecological and cultural fragmentation.
Monday, November 24: 2:30-4:00 PM EST
We Are Not a Monolith: Spirit-Centered Design for Relational Economies
with Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr. Tribal Historical Preservation Officer of Nipmuc Nation & Founder and Creative Director of No Loose Braids.
Hosted by Jason Jacobs of Ngāti Ranginui, Aotearoa, Elder Guardian
From the cedar swamps of Nipmuc territory to Māori lands of Aotearoa, two KinHubs demonstrate how spirit-centered design turns conservation into bio-cultural governance. This session explores:
How colonial conservation and restoration frameworks continue to erase Indigenous leadership, and how Māori and Nipmuc communities are reasserting Indigenous design logics in response.
Indigenous-led reforestation, cedar swamp restoration, and native forest recovery as acts of economic and spiritual sovereignty.
The role of ceremony and story to repair and reconnect the human and more-than-human living systems we need to navigate collapse
Tuesday, December 2: 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Lifting the Veil:
Our Roots in an Indigenous GrandMothering Economy
With Dr. Emem Okon, of Kebetkache Women’s Development Centre in Nigeria
Hosted by Skeena Rathor, Elder Guardian, Matricultural Visionary
Niger Delta, or Kebetkatche in a mother tongue, is the most oil rich region of Africa and one of the most biodiverse. In recent decades Emem and Kebetkatche have been the first to engage women including 30+ Indigenous women’s circles, to transform extractive economies into bio-cultural systems of care. This session explores:
Kebetkache’s approach to engage Indigenous women is creating peace economies in one of the world’s most exploited regions.
Indigenous Commons’ GrandMothering Circle as a living architecture of support between Kebetkatche and other women-led Indigenous movements across the planet
True and moving stories of unconditional love as an organizing principle in the Niger Delta
Matriculture as a governance framework for Indigenous Commons — placing love, protection, and relational abundance at the center of social and economic systems.
Thursday, December 4: 3:00-4:30 PM EST
From the Margins to the Matrix: Indigenous Systems Design for a Living Planet
with WariNkwi Flores — Guardian Advisor of Indigenous Commons and founder of KinRay / Tensegrity Hub (Andean–Amazonian Bioregions.
Hosted by Suzanne Bowles, Philanthropy Advisor and Founding KinMaker of Indigenous Commons
WariNkwi has been informing the design intelligence and governance protocols for Indigenous Commons, ensuring that Indigenous communities are not merely recipients of funding, but stewards of regenerative finance ecosystems.
Our current economic and philanthropic systems remain trapped in extractive logics — measuring value in isolation from relationship, land, and Spirit. Join Suzanne as she delves into WariNkwi’s approach to Indigenous Systems Design and how it enables the wisdom at the edge to inform the evolution of the center.
Conversation will explore how Indigenous Systems Design:
Reorganizes finance around relational accountability, not control.
Defines regeneration as an ecological, cultural, and spiritual duty of care.
Bridges Indigenous science and Western technology through ethical data systems grounded in biocultural knowledge.
Creates protocols where nature herself mediates agreements — ensuring reciprocity and continuity between all participants.
Register for
Rituals of Renewal
Once registered, you’ll receive reminder emails and access to all sessions in the Rituals of Renewal series.
In the spirit of reciprocity and kinship, after registering, we’ll invite you to make a contribution of $20–$250 to support Indigenous Systems Design.
50% will directly support the Guardians in this series.
50% to the GrandMothering Economy, building the shared structures that sustain flow to the Guardians’ KinHubs.