The Youth Passageways Spiral Leadership Circle
(wearing our amazing new hoodies designed by T'lingit Two Spirit Artist, Birdie Sam)

Our Spring session was a beautiful success!
We invite you to join us for the coming three seasonal sessions:

Summer Session: August (dates forthcoming)
Fall Session: November (dates forthcoming)
Winter Session: February  (dates forthcoming)

Sessions will be recorded and made available to registrants after each call.

Youth Passageways, in partnership with Queer Odyssey, has begun circling a growing community of queer guides, edge-walkers and ancestral ritualists --coming together to share our questions, offerings, and the stories of our own queer initiations. This is an emergent community of practice we are calling the Queering Rites Collective.

Together, holding our questions and centering our relations, we are learning to uncover ancient queer lineages and begin to queer the normative ones we have inherited -- asking how to be in community ritual space and build new stories that support our queer communities to be in wholeness in these times.

If you are interested in joining one of our upcoming calls, please reach out to Y (yeshe@youthpassageways.org) or Jett (connect@queerodyssey.org) 

In partnership with Life Comes From It, we blend grantmaking and fiscal sponsorship to empower cultural stewards and practitioners across Turtle Island.

Our fiscal sponsorship and administrative support ensures impactful projects receive the funding they need. This year we processed over $2.4 million, directing flow to spread across 32 different fiscal sponsees and 80+ grantees. More than 90% of these visionaries are BIPOC and actively dedicated to restorative and transformative justice and earth based healing for generational change. The establishment of the trust marks a major transition in our network, focusing our energy towards those engaged directly in community and cultural revitalization work.

The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways (GCILL) supports projects that educate and inform people about Indigenous ways, raise human consciousness, and co- create a harmonious relationship with Mother Earth, with a core focus of sharing the messages of Elders and wisdom keepers.

See upcoming events from GCILL in Sharing Resources section!

Buffalo Visions is hosting a traditional youth camp & cross-cultural gathering July 11-14, and you are invited! This cultural camp and gathering place is the vision and prayer of Northern Cheyenne grandmother and teacher (and Youth Passageways’ longest standing Stewardship Council member) Sharon Blackwolf. It takes place on Sharon's land in the beautiful valley along Hard Robe Creek, near Lame Deer, Montana. The land hums with water, medicinal plants, wild animals, wind through the pines on the ridges, and the power of summer storms.

Youth, families, and elders from the Northern Cheyenne Reservations participate alongside youth organizers from LA and members of the Youth Passageways community. There have been many tragic and painful losses in the Buffalo Visions family over recent years, and this year we will be honoring and grieving these losses as well as celebrating the resilience of the young people in this extended family as they come of age and into their power.

All who are called by the spirit of this gathering are welcome– especially youth.

For more information, please reach out to Marisa Withey Byrne at healing@moonlitpath.org or 805-878-5508. 

WILD12 Wilderness Conservation Congress 

 The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership & Lifeways (GCILL) invites you to join us at the 12th World Wilderness Congress in August, hosted by the Oceti Sakowin, the traditional leadership of the Lakota Nation, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. WILD12 is an environmental decision-making platform organized by the WILD Foundation and is open to all members of civil society to build a global community for the protection of lands, waters and peoples.

The seven-day event will be attended by roughly 1,500 participants from 80 countries. Indigenous Peoples and their leadership have been present at each Congress since inception in the 1970s, but never centered as it will be at WILD12, with an Indigenous hosting organization. GCILL is a co-organizer of the conference this year and will be responsible for co-chairing the Global Indigenous Sessions. With our support, the Congress will feature Indigenous leadership during the plenary presentations, global Indigenous sessions, Indigenous knowledge exchanges, and ceremonies and exhibitions. In addition to our leadership responsibilities, we are pledging to sponsor a minimum of fifteen Indigenous representatives to attend the conference, at our invitation, as delegates of their tribes to present and caucus.

Wombs of Peace Monthly Moon Circles

Join our monthly Moon Cicles with Wombs of Peace, an initiative of GCILL, which take place on the Sunday before the full moon each month. Our Moon Circles center around a core group of Women Wisdom Keepers who let Spirit guide them to share about different topics every month. Wombs of Peace exists to co-create safe, brave feminine-led spaces for the healthy new to start existing inspired by ancient Indigenous wisdom and guided by the womb. You are invited FREELY to be part of our WOMBS OF PEACE movement towards the Full Moon.

Together, we will journey into the ever-expanding landscapes of our bodies, hearts, and spirits, reclaiming the many expressions of our souls. By honoring our longing for belonging and with the support of our LGBTQ+ ancestral lineages, we will access our inherent embodied playfulness and delve into the archetypes of queer power, finding refuge in our personal and collective magic as queer and trans kin.

Join the Golden Bridge LGTBQ+ community for this deep dance of healing and liberation for all who identify within the expansive spectrum of LGBTQQ2sIA+ identity, expression, and lived experience.

Through co-created embodied experiences we will access our capacities to be awake, accountable, and show up in the brilliance and truth of our vulnerability. Our quest is to find the clarity, compassion, courage, and commitment to stand up in our wild sacred masculine selves and let our unique genius shine in service to collective healing. Together we will celebrate what it is to be whole, connected, and authentic men rightly attuned for these challenging times.

Please join us. Men 16 years & older are welcome.

A community gathering for rekindling embodied, nature-based, relational wisdom.

Gather with us to re-connect what has been disconnected, to mend what has been torn, and to mourn what has been lost. Together we will weave a rich tapestry of song, story, solidarity, somatic awareness, historical reflection, and earth-based wisdom to co-create a future that is resilient, regenerative, and rooted in collective remembrance.

Applications are for the 7th annual Healing Retreat for survivors of childhood sexual trauma. This retreat offers a ceremonial container for a small group of participants to honor, grieve and celebrate the trials and triumphs in the journey of healing from childhood sexual abuse. We use a holistic approach to unravel the pervasiveness of isolation, silence and shame, and to weave together our collective stories while being witness to one another’s individual experience.

We are living in a time of rapid change, disintegration and emergence on planet Earth – what many call apocalyptic times. From the compounding and inequitable crises of climate change and pandemic, to the impacts of globalization and colonization, systems are falling apart all around us and it seems there is no way back to so-called “normal.” Coming to grips with the truth of our times is perilous.

This offering is for anyone who finds themself needing time out, community witness and ceremony to help move through these times and explore how they are moving within each of us. We are especially welcoming those working on the frontlines or whose daily life is already being impacted by climate change. It is an offering for community stewards, land-tenders, environmental warriors, artists, activists and simple humans of all trades. If you feel a quickening in your bones when you read the above, and know it is your time to be in ceremony, weaving intentional solo time on the land with time in community to learn collectively how to lean into this time in the world please join us! Sept 14-20th, Southern CA.

Scholarships are available. More info on the course page: