NOURISHING PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP FOR A FUTURE WORTH HAVING
The Village provides space for restoration, reflection and liberatory practice so leaders can sustain their work with agency, integrity and long-term clarity.
Restoration
We center restorative practices to support leaders to disrupt depletion, restore their energy and sustain both themselves and their work over time.
We cultivate visioning practices to support leaders in seeing beyond current conditions to shape futures grounded in clarity, alignment and possibility.
Visioning
Connection
We convene leaders in shared practice to strengthen relationships that deepen awareness, expand perspective and support how they lead and move through the world.
The Issue
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Societal urgency is increasingly chaotic
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Leadership is unsustainable
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Burnout is systemic
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Restoration is underesourced​
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What We Know
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Restoration of mind, body and spirit is crucial to leadership
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Leadership requires reflection, practice and nourishment
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Personal shifts create inter-personal shifts which create societal shifts
What We Offer
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Restorative Residencies
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We Outside Podcast
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Storytelling: Living Guide (coming soon)​
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Legacy Vision: Building a permanent sanctuary for generations of leaders.
What kind of future are you shaping through the way you are sustaining yourself right now?
Expanding / Deepening
We cultivate visioning practices to support leaders in seeing beyond current conditions to shape futures grounded in clarity, alignment and possibility.
Visioning
Restoration
We center restorative practices to support leaders to disrupt depletion, restore their energy and sustain both themselves and their work over time.
Connection
We convene leaders in shared practice to strengthen relationships that deepen awareness, expand perspective and support how they lead and move through the world.
Restoration as a condition for sustained, future-shaping leadership
Across movements and organizations, leaders are carrying conditions that are extractive by design. Burnout and isolation are not side effects—they are structural. And restoration is largely absent from how leadership is defined, resourced or sustained.
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The Village creates space to interrupt that pattern. Leaders step out of constant demand and return to themselves—engaging practices that restore their energy, deepen their awareness and expand how they lead.
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This work is not separate from systems change. It is a condition for it. Resourced leaders see more possibility, choose differently and create strategies that can actually shift what exists.
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Through shared practice and community, leaders strengthen their agency, reconnect to what sustains them and move forward with clarity and intention—shaping a collective future that is worth having.
What kind of future are you shaping through the way you are sustaining yourself right now?
We cannot shape a future worth having without leaders who are sustained enough to create it
We are living through a time of significant change.
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Many of the systems shaping how we live and work were never designed to support the collective. Built on extraction, imbalance and speed, they continue to shape how leadership is expected to function.
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Leaders are navigating these conditions in real time—carrying increasing responsibility within chaos while also shaping what comes next, often without the space or support that future focused work requires.
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The Village creates intentional space for leaders to step out of these conditions and return to themselves.
Through restoration, connection and visioning, leaders rebuild their capacity, deepen awareness and perspective and strengthen how they make decisions.
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They leave with practices, relationships and a stronger sense of agency—able to navigate complexity and sustain their work while shaping what comes next with clarity and care.
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New Seneca Village does not yet have our own land - we currently partner with wonderful sister centers to host our gatherings.
And, we are intentionally calling in funding partners to financially and relationally support our transition from pilot project to a landed liberatory practice space.
Join us!
New Seneca Village (Village) is a restorative residency experience that invites leaders and healers to access expansive resources (time, space, access to nature, restorative practices, intentional community and higher consciousness) for the sake of nourishing and sustaining their collective visioning for a just future.
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Our restorative residencies experiences are designed
to allow leaders and healers to center restoration, connection and visioning as grounding practices for their life and leadership
so that they are sourced from a space of nourishment
and sustainability ongoingly.​​​​​
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Our Mission
New Seneca Village is a paradigm shift committed to co-creating a new legacy of providing abundant resources for change leaders and healers who have long committed to actualizing more just futures within which we all have and will benefit.
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Join us as we evolve how we collectively care for
and resource the leaders who consistently create progressive change in our society.
Why New Seneca Village and Why Now?
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Many of us take comfort in the thought that the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice.
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But the arc does not bend itself.
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For generations, non-binary, gender expansive and women of color justice leaders have committed to doing the complex and traumatic work of advancing society’s moral and ethical evolution.
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From facing down and demanding justice from violent and extractive systems, to receiving limited and fraught access to funding - within the context of a society that deems them disposable - these folks show up for justice in our society again and again and again.
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And they have throughout generations.
Yet historically and currently, these leaders have been left to fend through the aforementioned gauntlet on their own, responding to fire after fire and operating from force of will, instead of from the abundantly resourced spaces offered to other leaders in whom our futures live.
Many of these folks lack access to the space, time and resources critical to balancing their mind, body and spirit, to building generative community and to advancing their transformative visions.
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2020 truly exposed how much is at stake and how much work remains to be done by all who believe in a fair and equitable society.
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How are we caring for and resourcing the leaders who consistently advance our society's
moral and ethical evolution?
Resource Context for Women of Color
(US Statistics)
Women of color comprised 20.3% of the United States population. 2019
+ 2% of philanthropic funds are invested in racial justice.1
+ Women and girls of color focused organizations receive .5 percent of total foundation funding. 2( 2019)
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+ BIPOC-led groups get 34% less funding than white-led racial justice groups.3(2020)
+ In 2017, out of the nearly $67 billion given by foundations overall, $356 million in grants were awarded in support of women and girls of color.2(2019)
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+ Women make up 75% of nonprofit workers, yet only constitute 21% of leadership roles.4(2019)
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+ 2.6% of venture funds go to Black and Latinx ventures.5(2020)
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+ Organizations by and for women and girls of color are at work in every part of the United States, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
Fund The work. Fund the resT.
New Seneca Village unequivocally believes that both movements and leaders should be funded abundantly and consistently.
