Welcome to Soulful Life

Welcome, Soulful Friend.

Applications for our 2024 October - December series are now open, we'll be exploring: Courting the Imagination: Inviting in the Imaginal & Reclaiming Animist Sensibilities.

Interested in joining us? Apply here:
https://forms.gle/sBMiLvwJYX4zzFeP8

A Community of Practice & Care

Our facilitation team: Holly Truhlar, Alexandre Jodun, and Carl Rabke.

This is an opportunity to work the rich loam of soul on an ongoing basis in a community of practice and care. We have a potent and skilled facilitation team including Holly Truhlar, Alexandre Jodun, and Carl Rabke. Francis Weller is our main advisor and joins us seasonally, once every three months.

About the Souful Life Convivium

We draw upon the wealth of materials from each of our learning lineages, as well as the teachings Francis has presented over the years, spending the last three years exploring three different series: Living a Soulful Life, The Alchemy of Initiation, and Facing the World with Soul. In our network and live Convivium calls we've built a rich and deep communal web with connections all over the world. It's a true house of belonging that's soulful and sacred, a unique experience that's co-held with compassion and reciprocity.

Each season we explore a theme through weekly Zoom calls with our facilitation team. 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 October 2024 we're starting our new series "Courting the Imagination: Inviting in the Imaginal & Reclaiming Animist Sensibilities."

*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 Courting the Imagination? Apply here:
https://forms.gle/sBMiLvwJYX4zzFeP8

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-
-Weekly creative prompts and check-ins-
- Select readings & poetry-
-Monthly live grief vigil-
-Seasonal group ritual-
-Shared interest & affinity groups within the network-
-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 an additional guest speaker. Below are our anticipated themes through 2024 and early 2025, as well as our weekly rhythms and monthly routines.

Seasonal Themes

Remembering Forward: Weaving with Ancestors & Future Generations (April - June 2024)
Building the House of Belonging: Embodying Adulthood, Cultivating Community (July - September 2024)
Courting the Imagination: Inviting in the Imaginal & Reclaiming Animist Sensibilities (October - December 2024)
Soul Genius: Tracking Our Gifts & Becoming Elders (January - March 2025)

Monthly & Seasonal Routines

Live grief vigil once a month
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 & Reflections

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."

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.

As well, 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 7th Cohort:
https://forms.gle/sBMiLvwJYX4zzFeP8

Cost

Membership in the Living a Soulful Life network is offered on a sliding scale of $95 - $145/month USD. We also offer $75/month subscriptions for Black & Indigenous People and People of Color (BIPPOC) and for people under 35 years old (younger generations). Every subscription includes the live weekly Convivium gatherings with our team, seasonal sessions with Francis, and access to all materials within the network including Convivium recordings which are available for viewing for 30 days.

*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 7th Cohort, apply here:https://forms.gle/sBMiLvwJYX4zzFeP8

Our Facilitation Team

Holly Truhlar (she/they)

Holly is most known for her work in collapse psychology and politicized grief tending. She has a Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology and Doctorate in Law. Over the last decade, she’s facilitated small and large groups (700+) using ritual, storytelling, creative processes, and Deep Democracy work. Transformative justice, collective liberation, community building, and interspecies connection bring her most alive! You can read more about her on her website: https://www.hollytruhlar.com.

Carl Rabke (he/him)

Carl is a Somatic Naturalist and Embodiment teacher, and a tender of soul and living culture. For the last 25 years, he has practiced and taught where the streams of somatics, soul-work, and a deep love of this living Earth meet. He is a Feldenkrais and Structural Integration practitioner and loves to support people in returning to and remembering our natural, inherent intelligence in movement, meditation, ritual, song, rhythm, and community. He also hosts the Embodiment Matters Podcast with his beloved wife, Erin. You can read more about him on his website: https://embodimentmatters.com.

Upcoming Series Guest Speaker:

Alexandre Jodun (he/him)

Alexandre is a psychotherapist, facilitator, ritualist & ceremonialist with a creole-diasporic ancestral heritage. Through over ten years of immersion and training within integrative and process-oriented, as well as animist and sacred plant-medicine paradigms, his sacred activism involves tending the fertile edges of human-becoming and bridging worlds. His eclectic facilitation work with individuals, couples, and groups is in service to the remembering of the essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge to carry the future ones. You can find out more about Alexandre at: www.ahealingbridge.com.

Our Advisor, 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 2024 he'll be gathering with us once a season and advising our facilitation team on a regular basis. You can learn more about Francis at his website: https://www.francisweller.net/.