Welcome to Soulful Life

Welcome, Soulful Friend.

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

Applications for our 2025 April - June series are now open, we'll be exploring:
Devotions to the Long Dark: Soul Practices for Uncertain Times.

Interested in joining us? Apply here:
https://forms.gle/owxFfyfm8tCgnQbb8

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, Devotions to the Long Dark, are:

April: Francis Weller and Kai Cheng Thom
May: Jessica Radovich
June: Desiree Adaway

Guest guides for Devotions to the Long Dark, from left to right: Jessica Radovich, Desiree Adaway, and Kai Cheng Thom.

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 April 2025 we're starting our new series "Devotions to the Long Dark: Soul Practices for Uncertain Times."

*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 Devotions to the Long Dark? Apply here:
https://forms.gle/owxFfyfm8tCgnQbb8

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

Soul Genius: Tracking Our Gifts & Becoming Elders (January - March 2025)
Devotions to the Long Dark: Soul Practices for Uncertain Times(April - June 2025)
- April ~ Welcoming the Long Dark: Inhabiting the Beautiful Unknown
  Guest Guides: Francis Weller and Kai Cheng Thom
- May ~ Singing, Praying, Dancing in the Dark: Practices and Ritual for the Long Dark
  Guest Guide: Jessica Radovich
- June ~ Lighting the Lantern Within: Activating Your Medicine for the Long Dark
  Guest Guide: Desiree Adaway

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."

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 9th Cohort and explore Devotions to the Long Dark:
https://forms.gle/owxFfyfm8tCgnQbb8

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 9th Cohort, apply here:
https://forms.gle/owxFfyfm8tCgnQbb8

Our Lead Facilitator

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.

Upcoming Series Guest Speakers

Kai Cheng Thom (she/her) ~ April

Kai Cheng Thom is a somatically trained coach, consultant, and conflict resolution practitioner working at the intersection of mind, body, and collective soul. She's an internationally published, award-winning author and the developer of the Loving Justice methodology. She's a cultural worker, facilitator, and pleasure activist and has been working in queer, trans, and activist communities for over decade in both formal and informal roles.

You can read more about her on her websites https://kaichengthom.com/ and https://ariseembodiment.org/

Jessica Radovich (she/they) ~ May

Jessica Radovich is an artist working at the intersection of creativity and community, seeking living means to nourish pathways of connection. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology at Fairhaven Interdisciplinary College in Bellingham, WA. She holds a license (LMHC) in mental health counseling in WA state and maintains a small private therapy practice focusing on attachment connection. Over years, her work has oriented toward these very times, with themes of working with collapse, disorientation and loss through generative means such as storytelling, singing and visual artistry. She is a member of the song collective, Earth Practice, and co-creator of the beloved community singing podcast, Bliss is Ordinary. She developed the zine series, “Everyday Healing” and has enjoyed collaborations with street artist Swoon, Philadelphia Mural Arts, MoMA and the Million Person Project. She is currently teaching college courses on Community Singing and Communal Grief Tending, as well as working on a quilting project across carceral lines. She is a daughter, proud co-mom, bandmate, devoted community member and vivid daydreamer.

Desiree Adaway (she/her) ~ June

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.

You can read more about her on her website: https://adawaygroup.com/desiree-adaway/

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 our facilitation team on a regular basis. You can learn more about Francis at his website: https://www.francisweller.net/.