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Thank you for visiting the Sun Seed Community LLC™ website. In order to protect Goddess, their clients, and their communities the full version of the website is now password protected. In order to view it please click this link or email sunseedscommunity@gmail.com for further assistance.
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About SSC
Sun Seed Community(SSC) is a platform for the practice of collective healing. The intention of SSC is to feel into and sit with emotional, mental, physical and Ancestral trauma while acknowledging systems of oppression. SSC holds these intersections via the SSC podcast, group/organizational conflict care, liberated admin consulting, and workshops. SSC is dedicated to the liberation of everyone's bodies and minds, especially within queer, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and communities who are deemed "other."
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There are always ways to support and dream with SSC! Currently, SSC is looking to co-create and contract with artists, disruptors, advocates, and others in the BIPOC/QTBIPOC community, and also seeking comrade investors and sponsors.
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SSC Values
We do none of this without the Ancestors
SSC is guided by and walks with the Ancestors of our community. They hold life lessons of joy, resilience, rebellion, mistakes, and sense making. We work with them to decide what our generation will carry forward, put down, and dream into. SSC consults with the Ancestors before and during decisions and processes. And in all our work we make sure we pay homage to the lineages we come from and the Elders who support us.
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We practice healing in community
SSC centers and encourages all of our community to build robust support systems with people and in environments that can hold complexity, nurture growth, set boundaries, and hold loving accountability. We believe the healing that cultivates right-relationship with others must be practiced with other beings.
We Practice Liberation
SSC centers and continues to learn from Healing Justice(HJ), Disability Justice(DJ), Prison Industrial Complex(PIC) Abolition, Transformative Justice (TJ), Spiritual Abolitionism practices. These practices have been and continue to be key frameworks for how to liberate our bodies, our minds, and our communities.
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Goddess was very thoughtful in incorporating cultural acknowledgements and our organization's values into the development of our safety and security protocols. We appreciated how Goddess took into account the protocols that we already had in place while also informing us with recommendations and next steps
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Goddess understands the emotional-physical connections in a supportive, nurturing way, and I think if everyone received this kind of healing on a regular basis, the world would be a much better place.
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Goddess supported our executive team to align with and more fully embody racial justice values at our culturally-diverse queer & trans therapy organization. They helped us identify the areas where our relationships were not flowing, as well as where our policies were not aligning with our deepest intentions, and we made several significant changes as a result.
Meet the Creator
Goddess (they/them) is the Proud MoMo of Sun Seed Community; a platform for the practice of collective healing. Creating Goddess’ tools of liberation took a whole community of support and they hope their village's stories can resonate with others. Goddess graduated from the College of Journalism at the University of Iowa in 2015 and the Healing Arts Institute of Massage in 2018. They have over 6 years of experience in organizational leadership and 2 years of experience facilitating repair circles. They continue to explore the many facets of Healing Justice, Embodied Abolitionism, conflict care, and somatic practices while teaching workshops internationally and holding space as a spiritual director and organizational nerd. You can usually find them in the "pagan" section of the bookstore, sitting in the back of a concert, reading a book under the sun, or binge-watching old sci-fi movies while cooking.
Offerings
Workshops
SSC Workshops are adaptive, somatically based, and center on the inner knowledge that you hold within your body and spirit to reclaim your truths and dismantle systems of oppression from the inside out. Please fill out this form so the we can adapt the workshops to your needs.
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Past topics include
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Ancestral Knowledge Through the Navel & Pelvis
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Who Taught You to be White: Retelling Our Nations History in the Classroom
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Inner Wisdom Keeper Series: 4-part-series that combines contemplative practice and racial justice to map out the origins of our internalized whiteness and anti-Blackness.
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Consulting & Speaking
These are not history lessons on systems of oppression but an embodied exploration into how your personal and Ancestral stories shape how you show up at work, with your loved ones, and in your community. Join Goddess in shifting systems change work from the intellectual to embodied practice through the framework of liberated admin. Please fill out this form for consulting or this form for speaking events.
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Topics include
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Repair Circles and Conflict Care
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In-person and Virtual Events Safety & Security
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Moving From Policy to Praxis
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Accountability Protocols
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Weaving Disability Justice(DJ) into the workplace (Particularly around neurodiversity​)
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Building Emergence Into Your Organization
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General administrative organizational skills and systems
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Pay and Reciprocity Transparency
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Dismantling Respectability Politics
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Massage Therapy & the Mind-Body Connection
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Thriving After Trauma
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Connecting With Ancestors & Reclaiming traditional Spirituality
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Rest As Ritual
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Decolonization
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What is Liberated Admin?
Liberated Admin is a term Goddess uses to describe the practice of what it means to feel freedom in the workplace. This goes beyond inclusivity. Liberated admin practices help us to understand and dismantle harmful colonial and oppressive behaviors and cultures in our work environments. How do we include collective care, agency, and interdependence in our work? Is Healing Justice(HJ), Disability Justice(DJ), Prison Industrial Complex(PIC) Abolition. Transformative Justice (TJ), Spiritual Abolitionism, and decolonization embedded into our policies, procedures and work culture? What do these terms even mean when applied to our workplaces?
If this is something you and your colleagues are grappling with I’d love to support you or find others who can on your journey.