About Stellar Village

  • We are a global folk school cultivating deep community, eldering, diversity, and kinship tending skills in real time, via online and hybrid events.
  • This is a trauma-informed space, gently stretching the global capacity for community care and joy through wisdom-sharing opportunities, singing together, leaning into grief, and practicing embodied relational skills.
  • Who is it for?
  • Anyone who wants to be part of creating a culture of Belonging, especially those in roles like song leaders, coaches, therapists, grief tenders, educators, event planners, elders, non-profit organizations, moms, and anyone who holds space for others.
  • Our Offerings
  • We provide a variety of ways to engage, from community singing and grief tending to building relational skills and sharing wisdom.
  • Our Vision
  • We believe in the power of kinship to create a safer world, in which humans are led by kindness and community instead of enmity and isolation.
  • By learning relational skills, we can live authentically, play joyfully, and deepen our connections—with each other, with ourselves, and with the planet.

Some quotes that inspire us!

“Blame, shame, and guilt come from being unable to express our grief properly. How can we pretend to be happy, peaceful and loving when we have so much pain and grief? I believe the future of our world depends greatly on the manner in which we handle our grief. Positive expressions of our grief are healing.”

Sobonfu Somé was a Burkinabe teacher and writer, specializing in topics of spirituality. Her village elders sent her and her husband to the West to share the practice of grief ritual.

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

Grace Lee Boggs was a community organizer and elder in movements for racial and economic justice. She was inspired by the daily struggles of the oppressed and shifted away from revolution towards "solutionaries."

“There is a future that I see for you my Loves I do believe.”

Amanda West is a singer-songwriter, recording artist, music teacher, and community song leader

“And we will care for each other, as the world around us unravels. And we will tend to the spark of hope that lives within our grieving hearts.

And we are here, now in this present moment, lifting our voices and hearts. And we are here, we have come together, we are tending the spark of hope.”

Heather Houston Heather is a community choir director, vocal coach, song writer, and community weaver.

Membership is an affordable all-access pass to everything online in the village - grief spaces, Village Hall, community singing, and workshops.

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Member – Folk Education Association of America