International Indigenous Women's Virtual Healing Circles: A space for Indigenous women to rest, heal, and connect.
International Indigenous Women's Virtual Healing Circles: A space for Indigenous women to rest, heal, and connect.
The INA Council convenes Indigenous women across the globe to care for one another, our communities, and the world. We meet at every solstice and equinox, when the seasons turn and we turn toward each other.
The INA Council convenes Indigenous women across the globe to care for one another, our communities, and the world. We meet at every solstice and equinox, when the seasons turn and we turn toward each other.
What brings us together
What brings us together
What brings us together
When we asked women what was on their hearts, we heard how rarely they get to rest. We give so much to our families, our lands, and our movements, and we often come last. INA is a place to set that down, to pray, sing, and heal together in sisterhood. Every woman is Indigenous to somewhere, and as we are restored, our power can turn outward, so our wisdom can take its natural role as a leader of Mother Earth.
When we asked women what was on their hearts, we heard how rarely they get to rest. We give so much to our families, our lands, and our movements, and we often come last. INA is a place to set that down, to pray, sing, and heal together in sisterhood. Every woman is Indigenous to somewhere, and as we are restored, our power can turn outward, so our wisdom can take its natural role as a leader of Mother Earth.
When we asked women what was on their hearts, we heard how rarely they get to rest. We give so much to our families, our lands, and our movements, and we often come last. INA is a place to set that down, to pray, sing, and heal together in sisterhood. Every woman is Indigenous to somewhere, and as we are restored, our power can turn outward, so our wisdom can take its natural role as a leader of Mother Earth.
Indigenous Nations
Healing Circles
Sisterhood
Indigenous Nations
Healing Circles
Sisterhood
Indigenous Nations
Healing Circles
Sisterhood
How the Council works
How the Council works
How the Council works
Global Coordination
Women join from wherever they are in the world, together in one virtual space. We’ll share the time in your time zone so you can plan to come.
Global Coordination
Women join from wherever they are in the world, together in one virtual space. We’ll share the time in your time zone so you can plan to come.
Translation Support
We have partnered with DOPIC, a professional translation team with experience in translation services for international Indigenous convenings. We are also utilizing new video conferencing technologies that support live written translations.
Translation Support
We have partnered with DOPIC, a professional translation team with experience in translation services for international Indigenous convenings. We are also utilizing new video conferencing technologies that support live written translations.
Room to Rest
The circle moves slowly. There’s space for silence, prayer, and song, and no pressure to speak or stay for the whole time.
Room to Rest
The circle moves slowly. There’s space for silence, prayer, and song, and no pressure to speak or stay for the whole time.
Shaped by Who Comes
Each circle is guided by the women in it. What you bring shapes where the conversation goes.
Shaped by Who Comes
Each circle is guided by the women in it. What you bring shapes where the conversation goes.
How Participation Works
What to expect from registration through to the closing session.
How Participation Works
What to expect from registration through to the closing session.
How Participation Works
What to expect from registration through to the closing session.
Register and shape the conversation
Let us know you’re coming, and what you’d like to bring to the circle, whether that’s a song, a prayer, a question, or just yourself.
Register and shape the conversation
Let us know you’re coming, and what you’d like to bring to the circle, whether that’s a song, a prayer, a question, or just yourself.
Receive your access link and orientation
Once registered, you'll receive your access link, agenda, timezone guide, language settings, and a participant orientation covering how circles are structured and what to expect.
Receive your access link and orientation
Once registered, you'll receive your access link, agenda, timezone guide, language settings, and a participant orientation covering how circles are structured and what to expect.
Come as you are
There is no agenda to keep up with and nothing to prove. Come to rest, to heal, and to connect with other women, in the language you’re most comfortable in. Stay for the whole time or part of it.
Come as you are
There is no agenda to keep up with and nothing to prove. Come to rest, to heal, and to connect with other women, in the language you’re most comfortable in. Stay for the whole time or part of it.
Carry it home
We close together, then carry the circle home to our families and communities. Come back at every solstice and equinox, and bring a sister with you.
Carry it home
We close together, then carry the circle home to our families and communities. Come back at every solstice and equinox, and bring a sister with you.