Stellar Village

Kinship tenders are the folks who notice what's needed for the beings in our community to feel brave, satisfied, and know they belong.

Technically, we're all kinship tenders, and we're leveling up our kinship tending skills here in the Village - that's the whole point. 

And we also have this more official role for Kinship Tenders who volunteer and show up in a way we can count on.

The main place Kinship Tenders help is inside of our events.

Kinship Tenders can choose their level of involvement. 

It might be just keeping an eye on the chat and asking good questions, recommending resources, or private messaging someone to help them know they are seen. (This can be done informally).

Other examples of kinship tenders at work: 

• Facilitating The Grove (this is a big one we need).
• Offering peer counseling 1-1 in a breakout group during a session.
• Facilitating an affinity group (for example. PGM space, a queer space, a space for neurodivergent folks, a space to educate white folks about how to be better allies for PGM/BIPOC folks, etc.).
• Affinity group educators - folks who can help folks who hold privilege understand how be allies to members who are marginalized in the same lane of oppression. For example, a white member may offer to be an affinity educator for other white folks, so our Black and Brown kin have a safer space here. This can be done in breakout rooms, private chat, separate Zoom sessions, etc., as you wish.
• Kinship tender educators. We need help making a course for folks who want to be Kinship Tenders specifically in the Village.
• Other ideas will come to us and we're open to yours.

We are technically an LLC, but we are on a gift economy, for the benefit of community. Our co-owners do not hold great amounts of financial privilege, and some of them could devote a lot more time to Stellar Village if they didn't have to work elsewhere as much.

We need your help making this village flow. We have three ways to offer financial support at this time. 

Paypal is for one-time donations or recurring and Patreon is for recurring. On Paypal you can choose any amount or the ones that are on the page. 

You can also contact the office to cancel your membership and sign back up again as a paying member, choosing one of the options there.

If you want to donate in another way or you're great at grant-writing, please let us know and we'll figure something out!

Our intention at Stellar Village is to resource the collective nervous system and learn how to village together. 

If you have an offering to bring, or a discussion you want to see happening, let us know! We have a Zoom space ready for you and members interested what you have to bring.

This can include identity affinity group meetups (LGBTQIA+, BIPOC/PGM, neurodiverse, elder, women, men, trans, etc.), workshops, song circles, any sort of offering aligned with our values and intention to resource the collective nervous system.

Member-Led offerings are open to all village members.

We would love to have support getting our videos edited and uploaded after live sessions. This ideally includes some website editing.

We want to have a regular monthly support space for grief tenders and need someone to hold that space down. 

This ideally would have some emotional support component, a logistical support component, and some education on the history of various grief traditions. 

It would be helpful to have Zoom-savvy folks go into some of the breakout rooms, especially ones where elders are facilitating.

We also need someone very responsible to help set up breakout groups during The Grove or our classes.

If you are interested in being a Zoom Tech, please email [email protected]. 

If you're interested in coordinating all the volunteers, or even just assisting the Volunteer Coordinator, please email [email protected]. 

Stellar Village exists to weave together many communities of folks doing great work in the world. We need help making this happen. 

• If you have connections to communities, organizations, or elders who need a platform, please let us know.
• Same goes if you are great at fundraising! We need all the help we can get.
• Another option is just to connect people directly to the village experience by inviting them to be a member. Here's what you could send them (don't post on socials, send it directly to them. Also this page you're on right now is private so a link won't work):

Do you know about Stellar Village yet? it’s a grassroots online folk school to nourish belonging. I’m enjoying being part of it and we’d love to have you and your developing heart skills there. 

Full Stellar Village membership is free and only by invitation, as we cocoon to grow the culture. I'd love to have you be part of the village.

This is your official invitation (picture a butterfly fluttering in with a sparkly letter) ❤️ 🦋💫

Use the code YOUBELONG222 to get it for free, or you can choose to not use the code to contribute financially. 

https://www.stellarvillage.com/bundles/invite

Please do not post this link anywhere on socials or send out to random folks. 

This is meant to be passed person to person, heart to heart, so once you’re in the village and get a feel for it, you can also invite friends who care about authentic conscious connection in service of liberation for all. Thanks!

If you want to help us out by liking or sharing our social media posts, commenting on posts with more than 5 words, or emailing/texting friends, that's extremely helpful too! 

We are on Instagram and Facebook. It's a love-hate relationship with that, and we're grateful for the chance to connect face-to-face (more or less) in the Village Hall every week.

Inviting people to events on Facebook is very helpful. Another option is just to text or directly talk to your friends about Stellar Village and share the invitation that's above in the Pollinator section. 

Picking nits is actually quite a social behavior for primates, a way to somatically care for one another. :)

We need folks to help see that we've got all our i's dotted and t's crossed. If you see anything that needs simplify or fixing, please let us know. 

We're thinking proofreading the website, looking processes, what happens in our events, etc., but we're open to whatever suggestions you have that might help us effectively reach people.

You don't have to officially volunteer for this role (although you can). You can always just send us suggestions.