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Solstice Community Singing Series 2024! Beginning December 2nd, 6pm-8pm

In this series, we will cultivate our inner holding of ourselves and each other, and fortify ourselves for what lies ahead. Together we are stronger, and our voices remind us of this truth.

We will gather for three Monday evenings and one Sunday afternoon in December and sing songs for the Solstice season. Our group will cultivate connection, community, empowerment, self compassion and courage through our singing practice.

$60 for all 4 sessions, free for Stellar Village members.

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What is Stellar Village?

Stellar Village is an online conscious growth community that cultivates deep connection, resilient tenderness, kinship tending, and eldering in real time, online and in hybrid events (hybrid = online + in-person).

We're launching now and open to new members.

We are to gently stretching the global capacity for community care through wisdom-sharing opportunities, singing together, leaning into grief, unpacking shame enmity, and practicing embodied relational skills.

We have three main types of offerings and members can be part of any or all of them. You are always at choice.

p.s. Zoom doesn't have to be just you! For our offerings in Zoom, you're always welcome to have your in-person friends participate too. ❤️🦋💫

  • 1. Virtual Village Hall

    Community Space for Sharing Wisdom (in Zoom)

    Starting December 14, on Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 am - noon Pacific time, we open up curated discussion & teaching spaces led by Stellar Village members (like you?) in Zoom. In January we will also add a weekday evening, probably Monday nights.

    This is a space to shine and bring your gifts to community, for elders to contribute wisdom, and for baby elders to practice and grow. In short, a place to have the brave conversations we need to have to build a world where we ALL belong.

    Attendees gather in one big Zoom space for a few minutes to breathe and share loving presence, and then we open up the pre-planned discussion rooms, each led by a different village member.

    The common thread is to nurture a more loving and connected world for all beings. That can mean anything from menopause to graphic design to how to unweave shame to affinity spaces for brave sharing (men's group, trans group, BIPOC/PGM, etc.). Villagers are welcome to put out a tip jar, but all offerings are freely shared.

    What wisdom, skill, or questions would you want to bring to the space?

  • 2. Community Singing

    For Connection, Joy, & Learning (Zoom & Hybrid)

    All voices welcome! And if you're connecting online, you'll be on mute anyway, so this is a really safe way to explore song circles!

    Community Singing brings emotional and psychological benefits (stress reduction, felt sense of belonging, confidence, etc.), physical health benefits (lung capacity, heart health, immune system), builds inclusive community, cognitive brain benefits (memory, concentration), and cultural enrichment.And so much more!

    We have virtual song circles in Zoom led by world-class songleaders, as well as opportunities to share your own songs! We also have classes about singing. These events are all online, and also sometimes in person as well (hybrid). [Current Singing Offerings]

  • 3. Classes Community Care Skills

    Improving the Collective Capacity to Lean into Love! (Zoom and Hybrid)

    We dream of bringing folks together in ways that everyone can be heard. This requires a certain skillset, from self-regulation skills to being able to notice the effects of systemic oppression at work in our communities.

    Classes feature world-class thought leaders, and are a chance for the Stellar Village community to level up our skills together. Some are a single webinar session, others are longer. [View Current Classes]

Some of our Upcoming Events (sign up individually or
always free with membership)

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What are hybrid events? Can my grandmother join in?

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  • Why online events?

    1. We're here to strengthen the relational ties between all people, everwhere, in service of peace. So we offer 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, share your offerings with people in other countries, and 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.)

  • Does "hybrid" mean I could also attend in person?

    Many of our events are a blend of online and in person.

    In hybrid events, the songleader or facilitator of the event has some amount of participants in person (wherever they're located) and the event is also broadcast into Zoom, where Stellar Villagers and guests can participate online.

  • 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.

    For hybrid events, if there is a fee for attending in person, it's per person, unless stated otherwise.

  • 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.

  • Where's the Calendar?

    It's on the

    What if I have more questions?

    We have a help page with more answers to common questions and our contact info. Or email us with the button on the lower right.

A brave space 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.

As Grace Lee Boggs wrote, "Community Care is to the collective as spirituality is to the individual."

Zoom-based Village Hall launches December 14 to interweave villager's wisdom and nurture capacity to grow deep community. 

Do you carry a practice or insights that would help the collective? Or maybe a conversation that you're hoping to explore? Maybe an affinity group you want to connect with? The Village Hall is free for all members to share and attend, and you're welcome to put out a tip jar.

Signup pages for leading a discussion are coming soon.

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 emergant 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 and each of us has something to share. 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 skills for collective care.

To move forward as a global community, we believe there must be space 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 from YOU 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 member offerings).

  • Coming soon: we'll have ways for you to share your gift to community. In these spaces, you are welcome to ask for tips and share your Patreon, Paypal, etc.

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!

Meet the Butterfly Council

“Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.”

Grace Lee Boggs

“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

Ready to be part of Stellar Village?

Some of our events are open to the public. But membership is an all-access pass to the online village! The family pass also lets you share your Zoom links. For the individual memberships, the perks are the same no matter which payment plan you pick on the sliding scale. [Learn More]

  • $29.99 / month

    $29.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    Family Pass! This is a great way to sing with with your long-distance family or friends, or have them visit other online Village events, including grief circles and classes.

    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.

    [Learn more about Family Passes]
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  • $19.99 / month

    $19.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    Standard Individual Rate.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 renewal can be cancelled at any time.

    Please view the membership page for more options and a sliding scale.
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  • $14.99 / month

    $14.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    Community supported rate (sliding scale). Use if the full contribution is a hardship for meeting your basic needs.

    Payment renews monthly and renewal can be cancelled at any time.
    Join Stellar Village

  • $9.99 / month

    $9.99 / monthStellar Village Membership

    Community supported rate (sliding scale). Use this option if the other monthly amounts would pose a hardship for meeting your basic needs.

    Payment renews monthly and renewal can be cancelled at any time.
    Join Stellar Village

  • $10.00

    $10.00Stellar Village Membership

    PGM/BIPOC Pass. 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. We aim for our active membership to be at least 35% PGM/BIPOC (Our Butterfly Council is about half PGM).

    Your financial 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 happily invite you to click here!
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If you choose to purchase a Stellar Village Membership with a subscription, it 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 all offerings, at no extra charge. Just log in and refresh any event 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.