Summer Newsletter - Contents
1. Newsletter!
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Though you’ve heard from us a lot sporadically, this is is our first official regular communication! We intend to make it seasonally, so you can expect a Fall and Winter and Spring.
2. What's new and good?
1 event save-the-date, 2 announcements, and 1 opportunity to join the team.
3. Rest and reimagine - Debrief and call to action
Invitation to next steps for Facilitation, Membership, and Partnership committees.
4. Ways to Plug In
Tl:dr - fill out this form for 2025-2026! Two questions: 1. Your skillsets & 2. Areas of need you’re interested to support: https://forms.gle/yPirr3VAMAsK3ZwY8.
5. Digital community
Join anytime to chat and for the next interactive programming in Oct, click here for the invite: Our Fire Collective Community on Geneva .
questions/comments/Ideas?
email us!
Rest and reimagine - debrief and calls to action
thank you and photos
We had an incredible gathering in June, healing through the deluge of rain, a cleansing sound bath, and clarifying conversations on Facilitation, Membership, and Partnership. See or add photos at this link.
Gratitude to all attendees, to HYCC, to our childcare support, people who provided food, and our sound bowl and yoga offering, and Nellie Mae.
Folks who were there are already contributing immensely to next steps. We invite more participation now and ongoing, including:
Faciltiation
Are you a healer, artist, bodyworker, or guide?
Do you lead practices rooted in embodiment, creativity, or community care?
Naqibah is connecting with folks who are interested in facilitating or co-creating healing spaces with OFC—not only to offer their gifts, but to be nourished in return.
We believe facilitators deserve support, reflection, and community, too. We have developed a compensation questionnaire rooted in reciprocity. We also want to be a space that facilitators can deepen their practice, connect with others, and be held as they hold others. If you’re curious about what collaboration could look like, reach out to Naqibah for a conversation about mutual support, aligned partnership, and co-creating spaces that heal outward and inward. Email her at ourfirecollective@gmail.com.
Membership
Belonging isn’t just a concept for us—it’s a practice. We’re exploring what it means to be in sustained relationship with one another, not only in moments of gathering, but through ongoing rhythms of care, reciprocity, and support.
Keyona is holding the questions around how OFC can grow a community model in which membership isn’t transactional, but relational. This might include shared offerings, mutual aid, volunteer circles, SuSu access to resources/services, and tending to each other in many forms.
Reach out to Keyona to help us imagine and shape what community membership can mean here. keyona@inspired.community
Partnership
Every time Our Fire Collective customizes offerings with a partner, we’re tending to the roots of our work—clarifying our vision, strengthening our systems, and building infrastructure that reflects the depth of of the need and resilience of care workers.
We're appealing to partners with healing justice leanings with "micro, mezo, and macro" skills and support to sustain their people who work in harm's way.
As our offerings grow, so does our need for thoughtful, values-aligned collaboration - we anticipate partner organizations or coalitions will be a majority of revenue and of exposure.
Jesse and this revolving committee are seeking your help to identify and steward relationships with organizations, schools, health centers, and coalitions who also want community care to be integral to their work, who want to lean toward humanity in times of need, and who support the emotional labor and mental health of their people. Please reach out to ourfirecollective@gmail.com to work on this broadly or with specific ideas for connection.