Why online? Can my grandmother join in?

And other questions you may have!

  • Why online?

    1. Long distance interactions and activities that are surprisingly heart-centered.You can sing with your grandmother in Saskatoon, grieve with your best friend from middle school, learn with your long distance partner, or collaborate with that deeply inspiring person you met last month. If you get a Family Pass you can share your Zoom link with up to 4 people.

    2. Eco friendly and accessible. Not all folks can easily attend in-person events. (Parents of young children, mobility/learning/social or other challenges, expense, schedule is too full, etc.)

  • Can I bring other people with me in person?

    You're always welcome to have friends an family in your physical space when we're in Zoom or watching a recording.

    For people who are long distance, you can either both get memberships or one of you can get a Family Pass to be able to share the Zoom link.

  • How does this work?

    You can sign up for a single event or get a membership. Either way, you get access to the live session and your login lets you view the recording and bonus materials.

We’re bringing humans together to practice what it means to belong to each other.

Are you kinder when you feel safe and loved? We are!

We wholeheartedly believe in humanity’s capacity to learn the skills of kinship tending, that we can re-socialize ourselves to live fully and authentically, play joyfully, love deeply, and level up our relational skills for a better world and juicier lives.

The synergy of tender hearts is magical!

Curiously exploring the magic of resilient tenderness.

If you're anything like us, you're a messy and adorable human.

We all belong on this planet, and we're interconnected. How can we learn to get along and enjoy life together?

If you also have faith in learning and yearn for authentic, kind, joyful, considerate relationships (internally, externally, and even with other species), you've found your people! 🎶 We want that, too!

We're Here to Help Each Other Fly

We are an emerging collaborative, creative, loving, action-oriented, trauma-informed online space that dreams big.

The secret recipe for safety and satisfaction in life is not competition, it's kinship! We are interconnected on this living planet. When we help bring out the best in each other, we all do better.

We're not perfect, and never will be. We’re here to learn how to do our part for our collective nervous system, to connect people to each other, and learn pro-social village skills that we may have missed out on in our dysfunctionally nuclear families.

To move forward as a global community, we believe there must be spaces for grief and the skills to notice how our actions influence other's thrival. Let’s how to play together and have fun without competition! Community singing, dance, platonic touch, and art are wonderful for that, and other modalities and magic will come as we build this village together.

We all need belonging like we need oxygen. Welcome!

  • Who is this for? Anyone who is craving connected, tender, resilient community, especially if educating or holding space is part of what you do professionally. Song leaders, grief tenders, coaches of any kind (including therapists, ritualists, activists, school teachers, event planners, dog trainers, and more).

  • A learning-oriented space to nourish family-of-choice friendships that you can count on! ❤️

  • Lots of education and opportunities for self care.

  • We are here to learn and spark each other in community, a global village to help us re-member and collaborate on big ideas.

  • Events are led by folks at the growing edge of change. They are fun, kind, heart-nourishing, and carry diverse identities.

  • Subject areas will include song circles, song leader support, becoming an elder (and not just older), somatic practices (being in your body), community grief circles (online and in person), grief tender support, living your purpose affordably, reclaiming play, sustainable gardening, delving into your own ancestral lineage, cross-cultural collaboration skills, community social skills, we-tonomy, nurturing your gifts to community, creating systems of care, transformational conflict in couples and groups, and other relational skills to co-create a world in which we all want to live. These are practical, actionable, classes with big vision. We also have collaboration spaces to help nourish your own vision and bring it to joyful fruition.

  • You're needed here! Stay tuned for volunteer opportunities on our Kinship Tending team (checking in on people, conflict transformation, affinity group educators, chat support during Zoom, etc.) and Collaboration Team (hosting student-led discussions).

Who is the 'we' behind Stellar Village?

Well, we're a village, so 'we' is all of us, and we also do have a core of folks tending to the heart of Stellar Village, called the Butterfly Council. Stellar Village was initially envisioned and is founded as an LLC by Grisha Stewart, MA, CPDT-KA.

The Butterfly Council benefits financially from Stellar Village and is about half PGM/BIPOC (or possibly over half, depends on how things shake out). There are 3 transgender people on the council, a great-grandmother, a young man finishing high school. We are men, women, nonbinary, trans, cisgender, invisibly disabled, abled, neo-Druid, Christian, atheist-Christian, atheist-Jewish, Spiritual, neurodiverse, neurotypical (maybe), colonized, colonizer, naturalized citizen, live in the country of our birth, mixed race, single race, high ACE scores, lower ACE scores, monogamous, polyamorous, trauma survivors, single, married, widowed, partnered but unmarried, raised in poverty, raised wealthy, middle class, renters, homeowners, have been unhoused, working class, LGBTQIA+, heterosexual, among other identities, and all much more than any labels.

And we were all children at one point, figuring out how to be elders and good ancestors, committed to learning and sharing skills that create a world where people know they belong.

We care about each other and all beings that share this living planet, including you!

“We need happier people to create a world that is livable.”

Astrid Lindgren

“Personal change is inseparable from social and political change”

Harriet Lerner

“There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.”

Amanda Gorman

What’s your vision of the best case scenario?

Click to hear Grisha & Tom's Song, "Best Case Scenario"

Ready to be part of Stellar Village?

Villagers get access to all of our online content - live and recorded. [Learn More]

We believe strongly in equity, so all of these options have the same benefits. Please consider how you can contribute financially and be generous. We have options so that those who truly need it can afford to be in the village. If none of these options are affordable, we also have scholarships.

  • $19.99 / month

    $19.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    This is fair energy exchange for the valuable service of creating online community for you. If this option is not a hardship (meaning you would have trouble providing your basic needs), please select this option.

    Payment renews monthly and can be cancelled at any time.
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  • $14.99 / month

    $14.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    This is a sliding scale option, in case the full contribution is a hardship for meeting your basic needs.

    Payment renews monthly and can be cancelled at any time.
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  • $9.99 / month

    $9.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    This accessible choice is an option if the other monthly amounts would pose a hardship for meeting your basic needs.

    Payment renews monthly and can be cancelled at any time.
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  • $199.00

    $199.00Stellar Village Membership

    This is a one-time payment for one year of access. It automatically expires after one year and does not renew.
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  • $10.00

    $10.00Stellar Village Membership

    PGM/BIPOC ONLY. One-time fee for lifetime access! For our kin who identify as People of the Global Majority (PGM), also known as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), we offer lifetime Village membership for a low price.

    Your energy exchange contributes to the village and your sense of belonging, so we do ask for a small fee. You are also welcome to use any of the other payment options.

    That said, if you are PGM/BIPOC and would like a totally FREE membership, we invite you to click here!
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  • $29.99 / month

    $29.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    Family Pass! This is a great way to sing your long-distance friends, or have them visit other Village events, including grief and learning events. Full membership for you, plus you can share Zoom links for live sessions with up to 4 other people. Payment renews monthly and renewal can be cancelled at any time.

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If you choose to purchase a Stellar Village Membership your subscription will go for a month from the start date and then renew automatically each month after that. You can easily cancel renewal at any time and your access to the content will just expire on your renewal date.

Already a Member? You're already enrolled in this event, at no extra charge. Just log in and refresh this page, and you'll see a Start Learning or Resume Learning button on the top.

Scholarships. We also have 6-month need-based scholarships. Use the contact form below for scholarship information.