The Weavers' Guild

There are so many of us who are already the weavers, following intuitive threads, and also experiencing sensitivity in the form of illness or neurodivergence that slows us down to different rhythms underneath the pushing through of the dominant culture.

The Weavers’ Guild is a supportive group space meeting three times a month to deepen the Relational Field Weaving practices we are exploring in the Mundane Mycelium. The groups will be kept intentionally small at no more than 6 people.

The Weavers’ Guild offers witness and accompaniment for those entering into deeper relationship with their sensitivity and embodied expression, and navigating the way that this kind of liminality often includes experiences in their daily life that seem to be irrationally difficult or identity-dissolving in ways that are not contextualized within dominant culture. With this intensity of experience often comes pervasive loneliness and a deep longing to rest back into a wider web of support.

The Weavers' Guild emerged out of a year of intensive practice with an online somatic support group called Ecosystem Spoons for people who are living with energetic sensitivity, chronic illness, and/or neurodiversity to learn to access the relational pathways of support that are often numbed or hidden within daily ways of sensing.

We are living in a society where there is a near-universal deficit of "spoons," as people are navigating exhaustion within a dominant culture shaped by overriding the discernment of the body, dissociating from the wider contexts of our relatedness, and feeling immense isolation because of a lack of authentic nutrients.

The Weavers' Guild offers an embodied experience of the way that perception can begin to shift when a wider sense of holding is possible. You will be supported in relaxing back into the wider unfurling across the shifting textures of your capacity and locating the emergent pulse of your expression which is deeply nourishing within ecosystemic reality.

This work is an incubatory process of connection over time to integrate complexity. The presence that infuses this group weaving is subtle, an orientation towards attunement and deep listening, a practice of pausing and slowing down to really experience “what is" and ground with people in deeper layers of reality beneath the cognitive.

Apply to join the BE:HELD layer of the Mundane Mycelium for access to The Weaver’s Guild 3x monthly group practice calls and a group message thread, as well as all membership events within the Mycelium:

If $110/month is out of your financial means, please reach out for a scholarship.

There is currently one cohort for Weavers' Guild meeting three Fridays a month from 2-4pmCT which has 3 participant places left open (this group generally works well for folks in the US and UK). If there is interest in the Weavers' Guild beyond the capacity of the Friday group, a second cohort may be created which is more suited to US evening and AUS morning times. If you are interested in participating in this alternatively timed cohort, please reach out to Shante' at mycelium(at)earthpoetedgeweaver.com.

2024 Group Dates:

Friday, July 12th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, July 19th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, July 26th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, August 9th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, August 23rd, 2-4pmCT

Friday, August 30th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, September 13th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, September 20th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, September 27th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, October 11th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, October 18th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, October 25th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, November 8th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, November 15th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, November 29th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, December 6th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, December 13th, 2-4pmCT

Friday, December 20th, 2-4pmCT

Relational Framing for The Weavers' Guild

  • This is a container for accompanying each other on our journeys as sensitive bodies experiencing shifting textures of limitation and capacity.

  • We are committed to trusting the innate wisdom of each person’s system in how they’ve learned to exist given the context of their lives.

  • We agree to release any focus on “fixing” or “problem solving” for ourselves or other participants within the context of this container. If we notice “the field of fixing” coming up in ourselves or others, we will gently practice naming that this field is present and reorient back towards being with what is.

  • This is not a space for “healing” or forcing any kind of change or improvement, it is a space where we can invite our systems to notice what is already present (including what may be hidden or obscured through habitual patterns), to subtly orient towards possible sensations of support and nourishment, and to let this gentle curiosity reshape us in the just right way for our systems at each moment in time.

  • Within their capacity in the moment, each participant commits to tracking their own inner experience and “yes,” “no,” and “maybe” through the group. If there are moments of dissonance that come up within your system, you can pause or stop at any point.

Apply to join the BE:HELD layer of the Mundane Mycelium for access to The Weaver’s Guild 3x monthly group practice calls and a group message thread, as well as all membership events within the Mycelium:

If $110/month is out of your financial means, please reach out for a scholarship.

Feedback from previous participants:

"It was the most profoundly supportive space I have experienced in forever."

Time slowed down during our group in a way that felt deeply calming and restorative. There is so much that I struggle to access on my own and the regular, loving reminder from you that that makes total sense and is an ok place to be right now felt so supportive and helpful to my often pressure-full system. The potent magic of the group container helped me reconnect to the wider web in ways that have been holding me on my own, even in moments when I am having trouble connecting, because my body remembers more of what's possible now, and more of what's real and available...The guided time in our bodies was soooo helpful and dynamic. As I turn my energy back towards myself and divine energy and all the ecosystems of which I am a part for the first time in years, I feel really intimidated and out of my league sometimes. The way you guided us and also the topics you dove into throughout the groups felt really accessible and unintimidating, even as the subject matter was experientially complex and profound. I felt SO supported in Ecosystem Spoons! " 

—Parker Rice

"Powerful group container, experientially nourishing."

I have a deeper felt sense of being held by the larger field. Helpful on multiple levels. I was amazed by the depth of connection expressed and experienced by all across a wide variety of locations through Zoom. The power of community cannot be overstated!"

— Patti Gmeiner

"I LOVED it! It felt warm, welcoming, gentle, and supportive."

I’m so grateful for the threads that lead me to Ecosystem Spoons. It has felt really special to find a space to explore the nuances and complexities of living with invisible illness/sensitivities, alongside others who are interested in outlooks and approaches other than the clinical/medical.  I could feel the cohesion growing over the weeks and my appreciation for the group grew week on week too....Sharing and feedback from other group members gave me an insight in real-time into the energies, emotions and messages that were alive in my own system, which helped to bring some clarity and ease...The group sat really well alongside my own practice and helped to facilitate a gradual and general shifting and settling..."

—Susie Crampton

"A support group for the chronically ill that doesn’t turn into a fix fest or victimpalooza or the ghosts of abelism - praise be!"

This feels like a nourishing counter point to the systems and cultures we currently try to survive in. Dancing with ways to pull these ways of engaging into everyday life." —Kate Munson

GRATITUDE TO THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE INFLUENCED THIS CONTAINER

  • Bree Greenberg for her maturation model of uncoupling from dependency systems and attuning to relationship with erotic life force.

  • Larissa Kaul for their guided animist practices within the Animist Arts patreon playground, especially You Feeling Me Feeling You, which are the inspiration for much of how I invoke ecological and ancestral supports and guide somatic process.

  • Liz Koch for her teachings on attunement to subtle movement towards nourishment and fluidity, as well as the sense of landing and locating, following the biointelligence of our animal bodies.

And many more teachers and modalities who you can read about here.