Each session will be on Tuesday’s on 6:30 - 8 pm ET / 3:30 - 5 pm PT every two weeks and on Zoom.

The structure of each session includes:

• Welcome, community invitations and agreements to promote safety and respect
• Grounding practice and energy exercises to support embodied presence and self-awareness
• Sharing circle where participants can choose to take turns discussing their struggles, experiences, or check-ins within a caring community - as well as choose to just listen and practice faithful witnessing
• Closing practices for somatic release of any built up or stuck energy and transition out of the space
• Optional feedback circle for last 15 minutes for participants to share reflections and suggestions for improvement

Live closed captioning will be provided during each session.If you require other accommodations in order to participate, please let us know so we can consider how we can best support your engagement.

BIPOC is the abbreviation for Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color.

While that may seem straightforward, as with all things, it's more complex and nuanced than that. We use BIPOC as both a political term and a racial term. The Caring Circles are for people from the global majority who have been oppressed, marginalized, and/or othered due to their racial/ethnic identity... AND who choose to work with other people who've been oppressed by white supremacy due to their racial/ethnic identity - for our collective liberation.

We include the following groups of people under BIPOC:

• People from the global majority include those with African, Indigenous, Latin American, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and North African ancestry.
• Biracial/multiracial BIPOC with European ancestry and who have felt marginalized and othered due to their racial identity and want to dismantle white supremacy.
• White-passing BIPOC who have felt marginalized and othered due to their racial identity and want to dismantle white supremacy.

While we've been taught to believe that race is a fixed thing, the history of how whiteness was created and who is considered eligible for whiteness by law shows a different story.

Therefore, who is considered 'not white' and 'other' by our racist society is more fluid even today than we often realize. It has more to do with maintaining and growing our exploitative capitalist system and the wealth and power of those running this country than anything else.

That's why we acknowledge the arbitrary nature of defining who is white and who is non-white and focus more on our political alignment for collective liberation from white supremacy than our phenotype and how we look.

Because unfortunately, while all BIPOC experience white supremacy, not all BIPOC want to dismantle it.

At the same time, we also acknowledge that the history and degree of targeting of BIPOC for oppression and exploitation vary greatly, especially if they have a certain phenotype and look a certain way. This is particularly true for darker skinned BIPOC and BIPOC who have less proximity to whiteness though how they look, dress, and talk.

Please note that other people may use BIPOC differently than us for various valid reasons.

For some Black folx, a BIPOC space held by a non-Black person of color may not be what they need right now. Or they may want a Black-only space in addition to the BIPOC-only Caring Circle. 

If that's you, then WildSeed highly recommends Erika Totten's Emotional Emancipation Circle. It is another WildSeed community offering focused on being a online healing space to help Black folx process racial stress and learn tools for emotional wellness. 

Please feel free to email Chany at [email protected] with your questions!