Soulful Life

Welcome, Soulful Friend.

Our lead facilitator, Holly Truhlar, and lead advisor + guest guide, Francis Weller.

Applications for our 2025 July - September series are now open, we'll be exploring:
Tending Revolution: Grief Tending Toward Collective Liberation.

Interested in joining us? Apply here:
https://forms.gle/UHYBjv8AZ6gEcwcf6

A Community of Practice & Care

This is an opportunity to work the rich loam of soul on an ongoing basis in a community of practice and care. Holly Truhlar is our lead facilitator. Francis Weller is our main advisor and joins us seasonally, once every three months. Our guest speakers/facilitators for our upcoming series, Tending Revolution, are:

July: Sarah JS and Jordan Lyon
August: Naila Francis
September: Desiree Adaway and Francis Weller

Guest guides for Tending Revolution, from left to right: Jordan Lyon, Desiree Adaway, Naila Francis, and Sarah JS.

About the Souful Life Convivium

We draw upon the teachings Francis has shared over the years, alongside a depth of learning lineages; these include Black feminist thought, Indigenous sovereignty movements, abolitionist imagination, crip and disabled artists, neuroqueer perspectives, and ecological kinship. Over the past four years, we’ve explored a range of series, including Living a Soulful Life, The Alchemy of Initiation, Facing the World with Soul, Remembering Forward, and Soul Genius.

In our network and weekly Convivium calls, we’ve built a rich and rooted communal web, with connections spanning the globe. It’s become a true house of belonging, soulful and sacred, co-held with compassion, reciprocity, and care.

Each season we explore a theme through weekly Zoom calls with Holly, guest guides, and the community. These include embodiment and creative practices, teaching, ritual, inquiry, and conversation. We also offer weekly practice prompts, select writings, and poetry in the Mighty Network. In July 2025 we're starting our new series "Tending Revolution: Grief Tending Toward Collective Liberation."

*The Soulful Life Network is not a product to be consumed or a passive teaching experience but is a place of reciprocal learning and unlearning. It is a place where we ask people to show up for each other, for village making, and for Soul. It’s about not only engaging with the content for yourself personally but also deepening your capacity to witness others and support the community.

Interested in joining us as we explore Tending Revolution? Apply here:
https://forms.gle/UHYBjv8AZ6gEcwcf6

What's Included

-Weekly live Convivium gathering on Wednesdays at 12:30 pm PT- 1:50 pm PT (also recorded and posted in the network )-
-Seasonal Session with Francis Weller-
-Seasonal guest speakers-
-Weekly creative prompts and check-ins-
- Select readings & poetry-
-Monthly live grief vigil-
-Seasonal group ritual-
-Shared exploration of matters central to the Soul-
-Access to the Living a Soulful Life Network-

*While we hope to connect with members often, we do not expect members to participate in every offering. We understand the need for downtime & spaciousness.

Themes, Rhythms & Routines

Every three months, or once a season, we'll be deepening into a topic or theme with teachings, a shared ritual, a session with Francis, and one additional guest speaker. Below are our recent and upcoming themes, as well as our weekly rhythms and monthly routines.

Current & Upcoming Seasonal Themes

Devotions to the Long Dark: Soul Practices for Uncertain Times (April - June 2025)
Tending Revolution: Grief Tending Toward Collective Liberation (July - September 2025)
Mending the Web ~ Communal Practices for Rupture, Repair, and Belonging (October - December 2025)

Monthly & Seasonal Routines

Live grief vigil most months
One theme each season, every three months
Shared seasonal ritual for each theme/season
Francis Weller as a guest speaker once a theme/season

Weekly Rhythms

Mondays: Creative Prompt Post
Wednesdays: Live Convivium Gathering with Recording Posted in the Network
Saturdays: Poem

Who This Is For

This is an offering for you if you're interested in exploring the depths of Soul with like-hearted friends. If you're seeking a space of shelter, encouragement, and compassion. And, if you're hoping to contribute to the communal well-being while finding medicine for the troubling times we're in—"The Long Dark."

We root this space in values of collective care and liberation. Our gatherings are shaped by decolonial, anti-supremacist, anti-racist, anti-Zionist, and disability justice commitments. We honor that our personal experiences of grief, longing, and belonging are braided with the wider world—its beauty and ache, its histories and possibilities. Soulful Life is a place where we practice being with it all, together.

This is a space of reciprocity and participation. This offering is for you if you can commit to participating regularly, attending the live calls or watching the posted recordings most weeks, and responding to other members in the network. We find the first three months to be foundational to members' experience of Soulful Life; as such we ask all members to commit to at least 90 days within the network.

*You will need internet access to log into the Mighty Network and a basic understanding of Zoom to attend the live weekly Zoom gatherings.

Apply here to join our 10th Cohort and explore Tending Revolution:
https://forms.gle/UHYBjv8AZ6gEcwcf6

Cost

Membership in the Living a Soulful Life network is offered on a sliding scale of $95–$145/month USD. We trust you to choose the rate that aligns with your financial resources and level of privilege.

We also offer a $65/month rate for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and younger generations (under 35), recognizing the intergenerational and systemic inequities that shape access to care and community.

Every subscription includes:
• Live weekly Convivium gatherings with Holly
• Seasonal sessions with Francis Weller and other guest guides
• Full access to network materials, including session recordings (available for 30 days)

If cost is a barrier, please let us know in your application, we’ll do our best to find a path that supports your participation. Everyone is needed. Everyone grieves. Everyone belongs.

*Why we use a sliding scale: We understand access to resources is a result of institutionalized white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and colonization. A sliding scale fee structure allows those who have been most systematically harmed by these unjust and inequitable systems to access the Living a Soulful Life network without further disadvantage. As well, by offering significantly discounted subscriptions to BIPPOC we are acknowledging generations of stolen land, lives, and resources, as well as ongoing systemic oppression, that impacts Black and Indigenous People and People of Color.

Applications are open for our 10th Cohort, apply here:
https://forms.gle/UHYBjv8AZ6gEcwcf6

Our Lead Facilitator

Holly Truhlar (they/she)

Holly is a collapse psychologist, politicized grief tender, and soul activist. Their body of work is a remembering and revisioning of what it means to be people of potency and culture. They mentor individuals and facilitate groups through ritual, storytelling, imagination, creative practices, and Deep Democracy work. They hold a Doctorate in Law and Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, though they learn most deeply from their relationships with the Wild, including the land she inhabits, Ancestors, Hekate, and donkeys. Since 2023, they have co-facilitated two grief ritual trainings with Francis Weller, drawing over 1,000 learners into the sacred work of communal grief tending and cultural repair.

Upcoming Series Guest Speakers

Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg (she/her) ~ July

Sarah JS is a lawyer, facilitator, and activist dedicated to building collective and intersectional resilience. A native New Yorker now based in Lisboa, Portugal, she brings a fiery, political, and soft presence to her work. Sarah moves across fields as a writer, designer, and consultant, supporting heart-centered organizations and individuals navigating the chaos of our times with creativity and care. She served as Executive Director of the Good Grief Network for nearly four years and continues to facilitate peer-support spaces, consult with climate mental health orgs like Ecopsychepedia, and speak at environmental and mental health conferences. At her core, Sarah is an animal-in-process, always evolving and most drawn to imaginative, justice-rooted community.

Jordan Lyon (he/him) ~ July

Jordan is a chef, storyteller, and grief tender. He keeps the kitchen’s hearth burning, nourishing the bodies and beings engaged in deep healing work. A weaver of mythic threads, he offers meaning-making journeys meant to be shared in a circle around a fire. With reverence and sacred responsibility, he tends to the grief held in our bodies, lineages, and cultures, grief he hopes can be composted into the rebirth of a better world. Also a ritualist, writer, and facilitator, Jordan’s soul work lives at the intersection of grief tending, nature-based ritual, and cultural transformation. He believes that “through communal grief releases—ceremonies that reconnect us with the living land—we begin to heal and liberate our collective, cultural body.”

Naila Francis (she/her) ~ August

Naila is a certified grief coach and death midwife, an interfaith minister and a writer/poet. Through her practice This Hallowed Wilderness, she offers one-on-one coaching, workshops, community grief tending and rituals with a focus on holistic, heart-centered care and support. Her work is often informed by her love of poetry, nature, and spiritual practice. Naila is also a co-founder of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective holding space for grief through community rituals, and a recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art + Change Grant. "Wonder Unsung," her debut poetry collection, an album released with guitarist-producer Paulito Muse, is available on streaming platforms. An ardent joy enthusiast, Naila believes in grieving well as a fundamental human skill that ultimately deepens our capacity for pleasure, connection and compassion.

Desiree Adaway (she/her) ~ September

Desiree Adaway, founder and principal of the Adaway Group, is one of the nation’s preeminent DEI consultant-facilitators with over 25 years of experience creating, leading, and managing international multicultural teams in 40 countries through major organizational change. Known as an open facilitator, Desiree educates with straightforward, thought-provoking content that allows participants to confront their own biases and seek new paths forward. Desiree Adaway brings critical knowledge and a commitment to actionable change to each engagement.

Our Advisor & Seasonal Guest Speaker
Francis Weller

Psychotherapist, Author, Soul Activist

Francis Weller (he/him), MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures, and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief; The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation (with Rashani Réa), and In the Absence of the Ordinary: Essays in a Time of Uncertainty, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from indigenous cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from Western poetic, psychological, and spiritual traditions.

Francis co-facilitated Soulful Life every week for three years, creating a sacred container and soulful foundation for our community. In 2025 he'll be gathering with us once a season and advising each of our series on a regular basis.

Applications are open!

Interested in joining us for Tending Revolution: Grief Tending Toward Collective Liberation? Apply here:

https://forms.gle/UHYBjv8AZ6gEcwcf6

Please email us at [email protected] with any additional inquiries.