Resourcing Our Inner World to Transform the Outer World
Restorative Residency Experiences
for Healers
Interest Forms for 2027 residencies Open Until 9/25.
Priority Date: 9/14
New Seneca Village is an invitation for healers who are ready to intentionally deepen their exploration of their own restorative journey, while also offering restorative practices to the Village community.
Villager Summer 2023
Who is New Seneca Village & Why This Offering?
New Seneca Village is a paradigm-shifting project exploring what becomes possible when leaders and healers intentionally examine and evolve the patterns and practices shaping their leadership through our core principles of restoration, connection and visioning.
We are interested in how these individual shifts influence the collective change we are working to create.
The Village is a liberation practice inviting you to reconsider and actively shift how you resource yourself—strengthening your relationship with what nourishes your life force and releasing what depletes it—so that your leadership is sustained with greater intention, renewed clarity and a lifelong commitment to care.
Learn more about our leadership principles.
Healers are an integral part of the Village community.
With the Village team, they hold the energetic container of the restorative residency experience, while providing collective and individual / small group restorative practice offerings for the Village community.
We prioritize healers who work in non-profit spaces, in particular those who have experience in supporting frontline movement organizers, elders, low-income folks and others whose work is
about advancing collective progress.
If this is you, please read on.
Our New Seneca Village Healer Philosophy
The Healer’s Philosophy is the framework that grounds our understanding of the container created at each residency and communicates our expectations for anyone providing offerings to the Village.
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Each Villager is on their own healing journey, sometimes explicit and sometimes implicit.
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The power and ability to heal is alive and well with each Villager (there is nothing to fix, nothing broken, nor missing).
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Each healer is offering Villagers the opportunity to connect, feel, observe, encounter themselves, and to pause, reflect, and grow.
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Each healer is responsible for the consequences of their intervention, modality, and technique, and each Villager is responsible for their own healing process.
Village Healer Commitment
In addition to each element of the collective Restorative Residency Experience,
healers participate in three intentional sessions designed to support
understanding, alignment and co-creation.
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Healer Connect Session
This session offers a space to ground in the Village invitation by reviewing our community agreements and shared expectations.
Healers will also begin building connections with fellow healers and exploring the collective vision for our restorative offerings.
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Healer Co-Create Session
This session is to collectively visualize the in-person restorative connection gathering by reviewing the schedule, refining our shared intentions, and aligning around the community experience we are co-creating.
This session also provides space to ask questions and clarify logistics before we gather in person.
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Healer Debrief Session
This session brings healers and the team together after the in-person gathering to reflect on our time, share feedback and debrief with the other healers Village team.
This closing session is designed to integrate the experience and offer insights that will continue to shape and strengthen the Village.
The Village Invitation for Healers
VILLAGE OFFERING FOR HEALERS
New Seneca Village invites healers to join New Seneca Village as key co-creative participants in the restorative residency experience.
Healers support the Village team in holding a container of restorative care - at the Liberatory Practice (in person) gathering - healers offer approximately 10 - 12 hours of individual, small group and large group restorative practice sessions.
We define restorative practice offerings broadly—as rituals, teachings, practices and experiences that help us reconnect with our wise inner selves, ground into peace, reclaim our internal power and deepen individual and collective practices of restoration, connection and visioning.
We welcome healers across a wide range of modalities, including but not limited to: energy work, somatic and embodied practices, movement, sound healing, therapeutic approaches, ancestral healing, and expressive arts.
Learn more on how we define healers here.
Village Healer Expectations
Healers are expected to attend 3 prep meetings (one of which will be on site) and participate in each of the 3 Restorative Vision Circle series sessions to begin to build relationship with the community. All Villagers including healers will attend opening and closing circles while at the residency.
It is our intention that everyone on residency with New Seneca Village experience time and space to tend to their own restorative practice and the healer offering schedule is designed with spaciousness in mind.
Post the in-person gathering, healers close out their contracts with a final debrief session with the Village team to reflect and share lessons learned about the residency.
Please note: Healers are considered Villagers and are expected to participate in the entirety of the Village experience.
This experience is an invitation for Villagers (which include healers) to make space for restoration, curiosity and the practices that help them sustain their lives and leadership.
We ask for the Following commitments from all Villagers.
Village Exchange
The Village is sustained through reciprocity.
We ask each Villager to contribute at least 12 hours during the year following their residency to connect with, learn from and share with others in the community.
Through this exchange, we strengthen relationships, circulate wisdom and cultivate an interconnected community of leaders who continue to support one another long after their residency experience.
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Show up with attention and intention
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Participate fully in each of the residency elements
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Complete reflection surveys to inform Village iteration
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Contribute 12 hours of energetic exchange with/in the Village community during the year following residency
Attention & Intention
The Village is a co-created experience.
What you receive is shaped, in part, by the presence, curiosity and intention you bring.
We invite Villagers who are ready to engage fully—to make space for reflection, connection and participation on their own and with/in the Village community, and who understand restoration as essential practices for life and leadership.
What is the Cost?
The Village Restorative Residency Experience is complimentary.
For providing restorative practices at the in-person gathering, healers receive payment of $2,200 for providing restorative practices at the in-person gathering.
Healers are also eligible for travel grants of up to $1,000 and back-home grants up to $500.
What are the dates for 2027?
Villagers Spring 2023
Villagers Summer I 2025
Villagers Summer I 2025
2027 Restorative Residency Dates
The following dates highlight when each restorative residency experience begins and ends. Villagers will receive specific dates for each of the five elements once they are invited.
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Spring I Restorative Residency Experience: February 18, 2026 - April 22, 2026
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Liberatory Practice Retreat [Washington]: Friday, March 27, 2026 - Friday, April 3, 2026
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Summer Restorative Residency Experience: June 10, 2026 - August 19, 2026
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In-person Gathering [Tennessee]: Thursday, July 23, 2026 - Friday, July 31, 2026
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Fall Restorative Residency Experience: August 12, 2026 - October 21, 2026
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In-person Gathering [California]: Thursday, September 24, 2026 - Friday, October 2, 2026
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What Comes Next?
01. Interest Survey
If you are interested in being a New Seneca Village header, please review our Living Values and each of the elements of the restorative residency experience.
If you align with the entirety of our offering and intend to show up fully present for this experience, we invite you to complete our Village interest survey to be considered for a 2027 residency.
Interest Survey Due Dates
Priority: September 14
Final: September 25
02. Open Houses
The Village will host a series of Open Houses for potential Villagers in advance of a restorative residency invitation.
These Open Houses - offered from October 23rd - Nov. 5th - allow the opportunity for us to get to know you and for you to meet us and learn more about the Village experience and commitments.
Please note: Only those who are invited to,
and who actually attend an Open House
will be considered for a Village restorative
residency invitation.
03. Invitations
After the open house, leaders chosen for a 2027 residency will receive confirmation invitations starting October 15th
As leaders confirm or pass on 2027 residencies, additional invitations may be extended through the early weeks of January.
Still Have Questions?
For Clarity
Completion of an interest form is not a guarantee of an invitation to a 2027 residency.
New Seneca Village reviews and chooses Villagers in alignment with our intentions as defined in our Founding Commitments.
We prioritize leaders who work in non-profit spaces, in particular frontline movement organizers, elders, low-income folks and others to whom resources are not traditionally extended and whose work is about advancing collective progress.
More on how we define leaders here.
I also appreciate having the time to observe and reflect on how people's bodies receive the medicine. It helps me witness the plants' impact in real time and with some consistency through the week.
This type of intimacy with my work and creativity is what I love about the time I spend with New Seneca. I've grown so much as a human and practitioner.
— Village Healer Berenice Dimas, Founder of Hood Herbalism
As a healer, I felt so incredibly trusted in my offering...that it deepened the confidence in my own offerings. I was able to be emergent and responsive and being apart of the residency was truly a manifestation of the kinds of experience I have been calling in. I felt so supported and held!
I often talk about safety in moments and this was a profound moment of deep safety where I felt like I could give and receive as my authentic self. I know I have made lifelong connections and I am incredibly grateful!
— Village Healer Amore Alvarenga, They/them, Ahimsa Collective, Ohlone Lands (Oakland)
I definitely feel affirmed in my work as a mindfulness teacher that there is a desire for the transformative practices that I offer. Because of New Seneca Village I am starting to see ways that what I offer has a place within social justice movements and that spiritual practices can be aligned with social change.
New Seneca Village has also shifted the way that I engage with my work as a healer both inside the village and in my work life - I no longer have an intellectual understanding of energetic reciprocity but a more grounded and embodied experience.
Giving my all with the Village does not leave me feeling depleted and resentful like in so many other space, but rather I feel replenished, restored and nourished which makes my work feel both joyful and sustainable.
— Village Healer Kendra Coupland, Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher, Vancouver BC, Canada
We invite you to pause
and reflect on our offering.
Consider whether you have the interest
and willingness to make space for the entirety
of the New Seneca Village restorative residency experience.
Invite to Pause
As You Consider This Invitation for Your Self
Sit quietly and comfortably with your feet on the ground.
Take 8 cleansing breaths. [In through the nose. Out through the mouth.]
Imagine the feels, smells, tastes and sounds of intentional community. Sense the energy of those around you as you gather virtually and physically to co-create spaces centered on restoration, connection and visioning.
~ Is this experience an invitation I want to say yes to?
~ Do I have or am I willing to make the space for this opportunity to shift the ways I resource myself?
~ Am I a (joy)full yes to the whole of this offering?
Close with 3 deep breaths.