Resourcing Our Inner World to Transform the Outer World
Restorative Residency Experiences
for Leaders
Interest Forms for 2027 residencies Open Until 9/25.
Priority Date: 9/14
Our restorative residency experiences are an invitation for leaders who are ready to deepen their exploration of their own restorative journey, for the sake of nourishing and sustaining their leadership in life and work for their lifetime.
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.
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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.
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Learn more about our leadership principles.
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​What's the Catch?
New Seneca Village is a complimentary restorative experience.
Here, there is no expectation to create, perform or produce.
This experience is an invitation for Villagers 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.
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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.
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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 five (5) 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.
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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 Will This Cost?
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 leader,
please review our Living Values and each of the five 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.
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Interest Survey Due Dates
Priority:
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02. Open Houses
​The Village will host a series of Open Houses for potential Villagers in advance of a restorative residency invitation. ​​
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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.
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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 by XXX
As leaders confirm or pass on 2027 residencies, additional invitations may be extended through the early weeks of January.
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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.
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More on how we define leaders here. ​​
You deserve this space and the opportunity to align with yourself and your purpose. Take it seriously, as in be sure to guard the times and your energy surrounding this gathering and space. It's a deeply sacred and joyful blessing. It can be as intense or as light as you need it to be,trust the process and trust your inner knowing . Honestly best decision I made in 2025 to step outside of my fear of rejection and apply.
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— Tia Smith, Full Well Fitness
I was hesitant to apply for this residency and to accept the experience. I am the kind of person who seeks hyperproductivity as a way to avoid being with myself. I was scared.
But during my time at the residency, I learned valuable insights about myself and my needs, and developed a new community that supports each other in our healing and growth. I am so thankful.
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— Lan Nguyen, Educator, Bay Area, CA
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I’d love for people to know that the residency experience is like a portal, a pathway, into the possibility of renewal in every dimension of our lives. Entering the experience was a series of moments for deliberate decision-making around ways we wanted to restore, with full autonomy and agency. That kind of choice—alongside carefully held containers and facilitation—is one of the beginning seeds for learning how to lead a more liberated life.
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— Denise Shanté Brown (she/her),
Creative Co-conspirator
I'm literally telling everyone I know about this experience and encouraging folks to apply. It such a unique and important experience, the concept of resting and restoring is actually controversial and I appreciate the centering both of these concepts as something that we all deserve. It's a moment to again center yourself and talk to yourself and know yourself in a deeper, spiritual, life-changing way.
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— Susana Cáceres, CipotaVoz Strategies, Oakland, CA
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
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As You Consider This Invitation for Your Self
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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.
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~ 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?
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~ Am I a (joy)full yes to the whole of this offering?
Close with 3 deep breaths.