Stellar Village

Kinship tenders are the folks who notice what's needed for the beings in our community to feel brave, satisfied, and know they belong.

Technically, we're all kinship tenders, and we're leveling up our kinship tending skills here in the Village - that's the whole point. 

And we also have this more official role for Kinship Tenders who volunteer and show up in a way we can count on.

The main place Kinship Tenders help is inside of the virtual Village Hall and at other events.

Kinship Tenders can choose their level of involvement. 

It might be just keeping an eye on the chat and asking good questions, recommending resources, or private messaging someone to help them know they are seen. (This can be done informally).

Other examples of kinship tenders at work: 

• Facilitating the main hall (this is a big one we need).
• Offering peer counseling 1-1 in a breakout group in Village Hall
• Facilitating a breakout group in Village Hall for affinity groups (for example. PGM space, a queer space, a space for autistic people, a space to educate white folks about how to be better allies for PGM/BIPOC folks, etc.).
• Kinship tender educators. We need help making a course for folks who want to be Kinship Tenders.
• Other ideas will come to us and we're open to yours.

We have a fair number of free members and very very few paid members at this point. We are technically an LLC, but it's running at a loss, for the benefit of community.

We need your help launching this work and making it available to all who need it. We have two ways to offer financial support at this time, outside of the membership options. 

Paypal is for one-time donations or recurring and Patreon is for recurring. On Paypal you can choose any amount or the ones that are on the page. 

If you want to donate in another way or you're great at grant-writing, please let us know and we'll figure something out!

Our intention at Stellar Village is to resource the collective nervous system and learn how to village together. 

If you have an offering to bring, or a discussion you want to see happening, let us know! We have a Zoom space ready for you and members interested what you have to bring.

This can include identity affinity group meetups (LGBTQIA+, BIPOC/PGM, neurodiverse, elder, women, men, etc.), workshops, song circles, any sort of offering aligned with our values and intention to resource the collective nervous system.

Member-Led offerings are open to village members and guests with a Guest Pass. Learn more on the Member-Led Offerings page.

We would love to have a regular monthly support space for song leaders / song carriers / song weavers, whatever we call the people who facilitate community singing (vocal-based music in healing song). 

This ideally would have some emotional support component and a logistical support component. The preference may end up being to do that in two separate sections. 

It would be nice to have a person who bottom-lines the song leader support space (i.e., makes sure it happens) and that person may facilitate themselves or may just make sure there's a rotation going, so every one gets a chance to stay resourced.

That person doesn't have to be a song weaver, per se, just good at facilitating groups or finding facilitators.

If you are interested in bottom-lining this group, please email [email protected]. 

We would love to have a regular monthly support space for grief tenders. This ideally would have some emotional support component and a logistical support component. The preference may end up being to do that in two separate sections. 

It would be helpful to have Zoom-savvy folks go into some of the breakout rooms, especially ones where elders are facilitating.

We also need someone very responsible to help set up breakout groups during The Grove.

If you are interested in being a Zoom Tech, please email [email protected]. 

If you're interested in coordinating all the volunteers, or even just assisting the Volunteer Coordinator, please email [email protected]. 

Stellar Village exists to weave together many communities of folks doing great work in the world. We need help making this happen. 

• If you have connections to communities, organizations, or elders who need a platform, please let us know.
• Same goes if you are great at fundraising! We need all the help we can get.
• Another option is just to connect people directly to the village experience by inviting them to be part of discussions with a Guest Pass.

If you want to help us out by liking or sharing our social media posts, commenting on posts with more than 5 words, or emailing/texting friends, that's extremely helpful too! 

We are on Instagram and Facebook. It's a love-hate relationship with that, and we're grateful for the chance to connect face-to-face (more or less) in the Village Hall every week.

Inviting people to events on Facebook is very helpful. Another option is just to text or directly talk to your friends about Stellar Village. A third option is taking advantage of a great member benefit, the Guest Passes! 

We also have a Referral Program where you can earn money for yourself or a non-profit. We know that might be appealing or might be weird. We love you, either way.

Picking nits is actually quite a social behavior for primates, a way to somatically care for one another. :)

We need folks to help see that we've got all our i's dotted and t's crossed. If you see anything that needs simplify or fixing, please let us know. 

We're thinking proofreading the website, looking processes, what happens in our events, etc., but we're open to whatever suggestions you have that might help us effectively reach people.