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gather and grow with fellow community tenders
In Seed Circles, you will:
Connect with others whose values align with yours
Give and receive vital support
Tend to the self (as you so often tend to others)
Co-create shared visions for the world we want to live in
cultivating rooted ecosystems of care, reciprocity, and solidarity for the mutual thriving of our beloved communities
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Seed Circles are cohort gatherings for those connected to non-profit, social justice, and movement spaces.
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Intentional, regular gatherings offer space and time to cultivate deeply rooted relationships and build creative and reciprocal connections.
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Together, we are weaving a sturdy web that is flexible and responsive to ever-changing conditions.
In this circle, we share our gifts, create collective solutions, and seed a future of care and thriving for our beloved communities.
We happily offer sliding scale discounts for financial accessiblity. Discount codes are listed at the top of this page.
We are offering two full scholarships this year, prioritizing access for folks who are Black, Brown, and Indigenous; LGBTQ2S+; poor and working class; are disabled; and/or experience other forms of marginalization.
Meet the duo behind Seed Circles
Natalia and Heather have worked in the nonprofit sector for most of our careers and share a deep commitment to the sustainability and wellbeing of our colleagues doing this essential work. We share a lifelong passion for social justice, experience working in social services, and have both served in positions of leadership and served organizations as consultants.
We dreamed Seed Circles into being as a response and antidote to the toxic urgency we are confronted with. We envision Seed Circles as a space of respite, understanding, and belonging. Our aspiration and goal is that Seed Circles will sustain you through our shared, intergenerational, and neverending project of social change.
Our trauma informed, anti-racist, intersectional feminist praxis is the ground in which Seed Circles are rooted.
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Natalia's work in the nonprofit sector includes a wide range of positions from founder and executive director of Siren Nation, a presenting arts organization showcasing women artists, to Camp Director at Oregon College of Arts & Crafts (RIP) and volunteer coordinator at Habitat for Humanity and the PSU Queer Resource Center. Since receiving a Masters in Public Administration in 2011, Natalia has used her communication skills and aptitude for relationships to fundraise for nonprofits. In 2023 Natalia became a fulltime consultant and launched Gather: a happy hour for social good, a quarterly networking event for folx working in the nonprofit sector. Currently, Natalia is embracing her role as a convener of purposeful events designed to build community, create solidarity, and drive engagement.
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Heather is a dedicated community weaver, with many years’ experience supporting individuals, families, and communities to nurture and grow care, connection, and resilience. She brings this spirit to her practice, Rose and Cedar Forest. Through Rose and Cedar, Heather guides Forest Bathing; offers group and individual Grief Care; and provides organizational consulting and retreats. She is also an adjunct professor of social work. In all of these realms, Heather is co-creating a world of liberation, thriving, and embodied, mycorrhizal magic for all beings.
what grows from these seeds
~ care for all ~
Community tenders and web-weavers
come together to grow trust, care,
mutuality and resilience.
~ resource sharing ~
Seed Circles creates networks to
facilitate equitable and effective distribution and use of resources.
~ cultivating community ~
We are cultivating a community built on shared values and building networks of rooted resilience. This community co-creates
solutions to benefit us all.
Seed Circles begins again early 2027
Our 2027 Seed Circle welcomes everyone
in the non-profit and social services sector
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Seed Circles are for anyone in working in non-profit, social service, social justice, and/or movement/activism. If you connected to these realms in any way - whether as a consultant, agency staff, committed volunteer or board member - you are welcome!
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Our 2027 Seed Circle swill meet for 5 sessions—the first and last will be 4 hours, and the middle three will be 2 hours. 14 hours total.
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Seed Circles offer time and space to connect deeply with fellow community tenders (i.e. those working in fields focused on building and nurturing community, care, and connection). In these monthly gatherings, participants will:
Identify shared challenges and leverage collective wisdom, skills, and experience to problem solve and vision together
Nurture inter-organizational collaboration, ensuring resources are shared and used effectively and strategically, for maximum benefit
Eliminate or minimize overlapping programs/services and fill in the gaps
Enjoy a cohort of professional peers doing similar work to build cross-sector community
This is a mycelial space: one in which many nodes connect and weave threads to share resources across the web.
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Spring Cohort Dates & Times
Saturday 02/20/27, 10am-2pm
Wednesday 03/03/27, 6pm-8pm
Wednesday 3/17/27, 6pm-8pm
Wednesday 03/31/27, 6pm-8pm
Saturday 04/20/27, 10am-2pmFall Cohort Dates & Times
Saturday 10/09/27, 10am-2pm
Wednesday 10/20/27, 6pm-8pm
Wednesday 10/27/27, 6pm-8pm
Wednesday 11/03/27, 6pm-8pm
Saturday 11/13/27, 10am-2pm
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The 5-session Seed Circle registration is $2100, and discounts are available. We also offer scholarship for those in need. If you are experiencing financial access needs not addressed by the sliding scale, please email to discuss options (we want you there if you want to be there!).
Please note that you have the option to pay one lump sum, or split your payments monthly (these options are available whether you pay full price or another price).
We are also offering two full scholarships, please email us to discuss this option.
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Location for 2027 TBD
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We’re thrilled you’re interested in Seed Circling with us! Please email Heather and/or Natalia with any questions you may have.
Seed Circles
Mission, Vision, Values
Mission
Seed Circles gather community tenders to cultivate rooted ecosystems of care, reciprocity, and solidarity for the mutual thriving of our beloved communities.
Vision
We bring together community tenders and web-weavers to grow trust, care, mutuality and resilience throughout the non-profit, social service, and social justice communities.
Through intentional, ongoing gatherings, we offer space and time to cultivate deeply rooted relationships and build creative and reciprocal connections.
Together, we are weaving a sturdy web that is flexible and responsive to ever-changing conditions. In this space, we share our gifts, create collective solutions, and seed a future of care and thriving for our beloved communities.
Values
Love as our foundation
Mycelial interdependence & reciprocity
Collective, equitable, and just abundance
Emergence as a guiding principle
Trauma informed/trauma sensitive practices, supporting us to create a welcoming, inclusive spaces
Growing together toward a shared sense of psychological safety
