Welcome to Living a Soulful Life

Welcome, Soulful Friend. 

Our facilitation team: Cassandra Lam, Naila Francis, and Holly Truhlar.

This is an invitation into soulful liberation work, grounded in practice, relationship, and care. Together, we tend the rich loam of soul that nourishes courage, creativity, discernment, and devotion to the Dreaming Earth. Our facilitation team is Naila Francis, Cassandra Lam, and Holly Truhlar. 

Starting in February 2026 we're exploring Rooted, Resourced, Ready: Resisting with Soul Activism. Applications are open:
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Starting February 2026

Rooted, Resourced Ready: Resisting with Soul Activism

In this series, we’re cultivating a soulful, political home where we’ll explore inquiries and practices such as:

• Meeting this moment as a village of resistance, rooted in soul and relationship rather than urgency

• Identifying and cultivating our soul medicine and roles in collective liberation

• Ritual, ancestral, and deep-time practices that orient us to the wider web of kinship and support

• Somatic and embodied tools for metabolizing grief, rage, fear, and numbness

• Responsive healing spaces to stay resourced before, during, and after actions and crises

• Discernment practices for clarifying capacity, boundaries, and next best actions

• Reframing rest and resourcing in times when action is necessary

• Soul-rooted organizing tools and mutual aid imagination

• Psychic and energetic protection, grounding, and calling in support

• Grief-in-action: letting grief inform who and what we are called to protect, and how we show up

• Community accountability through check-ins, shared reflection, and co-working

Practicing Soul Activism, Together

In our network and weekly Convivium calls, we’ve built a rich, rooted communal web. We are cultivating a house of belonging that is deep and sacred, co-held through compassion, reciprocity, and care.

We explore shared themes through weekly Zoom calls with Naila, Cassandra, and Holly, with guest guides joining throughout the series, and through shared practice within the community. These practices include embodiment and creative work, teaching, ritual, inquiry, and conversation. We also offer weekly practice prompts and poetry in the Mighty Network. 

Beginning in February 2026, we’re entering our new series, Rooted, Resourced, Ready: Resisting with Soul Activism. Applications will remain open through February 2026.

*The Soulful Life Network is not a product to be consumed or passive teaching experience but 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? Applications are open.
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About Our Lineage

Soulful Life was founded in early 2021 by Francis Weller and Holly Truhlar. As Francis moved toward retirement in 2024, Holly continued the work with his guidance, carrying the threads forward while allowing the field to evolve.

We draw from the teachings Francis has shared over many years, alongside a wide and deep constellation of lineages. These include Black feminist thought, Indigenous sovereignty movements, abolitionist imagination, crip and disabled artists and organizers, neuroqueer perspectives, and ecological kinship. Together, these lineages shape how we understand grief, belonging, resistance, and Soul.

Over the past five years, Soulful Life has moved through many cycles of inquiry and practice, including Living a Soulful Life, The Alchemy of Initiation, Facing the World with Soul, Devotions to the Long Dark, Tending Revolution, and Mending the Web. Each series has been a chapter in an ongoing practice of tending what it means to grieve, gather, create, and resist with Soul in troubled times.

Our founders: Holly Truhlar and Francis Weller.

What's Included

• Weekly live Convivium gathering on Wednesdays at 12:30-2:00pm PT (also recorded and posted in the network)
• Special guest speakers
• Weekly creative prompts and check-ins
• Select readings & poetry
• Monthly grief vigil
• Seasonal soul-centered 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 few months we'll be deepening into a topic or theme with teachings, a shared ritual, and sessions with guest guides. Below are our recent and upcoming themes, as well as our weekly rhythms and monthly routines.

Upcoming Theme 

• Rooted, Resourced, Ready: Resisting with Soul Activism (starting February 2026)

Monthly & Seasonal Routines

• Live grief vigil most months
• Community rituals that engage our current theme
• Special Guest Guides joining us along the way

Weekly Rhythms

• Mondays: Practice Post
• Wednesdays: Live Convivium Gathering with Recording Posted in the Network within 24 hours
• 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 belonging, 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 month to be foundational to members' experience of Soulful Life; as such we ask all members to commit to at least 30-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 12th Cohort and explore Rooted, Resourced, Ready:

https://forms.gle/wFYZDbufsrNVfjNHA

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 Naila, Cassandra, and Holly
• Occasional sessions with Guest Guides (past guest guides include Desiree Adaway, Kai Cheng Thom, Francis Weller, and Jessi Rado)
• 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, click to apply:
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Soulful Life Team

Cassandra Lam (she/her) ~ Co-facilitator & Steward of BIPOC Circle

Cassandra is a neurodivergent Vietnamese-Chinese politicized somatic practitioner, liberatory rest educator, and community grief-tender based on the unceded lands of the Cherokee (Asheville, NC). In these times of collapse, her ancestors called on her to gather and guide communities to grieve, rest, and care for one another as a means of “survival pending revolution” (quote by Huey P. Newton). She founded Collective Rest in 2021 to help people feel safe enough to slow down, address soul burnout at the roots, and reawaken night consciousness (our soul-led ability to see, move, and create in the dark). Cassandra offers virtual and in-person grief rituals, group programs, 1:1 mentorship, and workshops for individuals and organizations. Rooted in Asian spiritual lineages and in service to collective liberation, Cassandra is passionate about creating spaces of refuge where people of the global majority can sing, cry, laugh, dream, remember, and accompany each other through The Long Dark in a good way.

Naila Francis (she/her) ~ Co-Facilitator & Poetry Guide

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.

Holly Truhlar (they/she) ~ Co-Founder & Co-Facilitator

Holly, JD, MA (they/she), is a neuroqueer collapse psychologist, politicized grief tender, and soul activist. Their work centers on cultivating a cosmology of belonging, practicing the alchemy of rupture and repair, and eldering end times. Their teaching style brings ritual, storytelling, imagination, creative practices, and Deep Democracy into relational practice. They hold a Doctorate in Law and a Master’s in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, though their deepest learnings come through sustained relationship with the Wild, including the Dreaming Earth, Ancestors, Hekate, and donkeys. In 2026, they're co-facilitating their third grief ritual leadership training and advising organizations on liberatory grief work, compassionate accountability processes, and soul-centered leadership.

Soulful Life Co-Founder & Elder: Francis Weller

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: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. He founded and directsWisdomBridge, 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. We are grateful for the solid foundation his teachings and eldership provided, and continue to carry on this lineage of soul activism.

Applications are open for our current series: Rooted, Resourced, Ready: Resisting with Soul Activism.
https://forms.gle/wFYZDbufsrNVfjNHA

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