Making family
with the other
How do we live solidarity?
The School of Kinship is where we learn and build it across difference.
Who we gather
The School of Kinship is a living space for remembering, healing, and building solidarity across differences. Each year, a cohort of edge dwellers and regenerators begins a year-long journey together.
Together, we build an economy of care.
The solidarity economy is not a distant vision. It is what we build every time we choose relationship over transaction, care over competition, and kinship over othering.
We relearn solidarity as something where everyone flourishes.
We reclaim our interdependency and shared humanity and unlearn the separations that harm us — and remember the kinship that makes us whole.
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Edge Dwellers
refugees and others living at the margins of dominant systems, who have nonetheless created impossible futures. Their knowledge of survival, adaptation, and memory is the foundation of this school. They bring their lived wisdom as paid mentors to the cohort.
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Regenerators
young people and practitioners from more privileged situations, who come to learn from edge-dwellers and turn that learning into concrete solidarity projects, art, and community initiatives.
What binds us together
We are connected by the dream we are dreaming together.
How We Work
At the School of Kinship, we hold space for the inner work of transformation alongside the outer work of building solidarity.
The yearly journey unfolds through five seasons, each opening a different edge of transformation — held through teaching, coaching, and ritual.
We learn together in intimate cohorts, grounded in the wisdom of edge-dwellers and the questions of regenerators.
We learn from edge dwellers pioneering impossible futures in the world — from their dedication to Indigenous land stewardship to food and education sovereignty, and post-capitalist economies and social justice work.
And slowly, the learning becomes living — as we create something real, together.
"What we practice at the small scale sets the patterns for the whole system."
— adrienne maree brown
Teaching workshops
We share teachings and hold workshops
Grounded in the wisdom of edge-dwellers and the questions of regenerators. Intimate cohorts that learn together across difference
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Metabolising interdependecy together
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Decolonising money
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Unlearning power and hierarchy
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Unsettling coloniality ‘s belief systems
Coaching
We nurture coaching containers of one-to-one and small group coaching for regenerators navigating the inner and outer work of transformation.
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Personal healing and liberation
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Navigating power and privilege
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Building relational accountability
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Grief work and somatic practice
Solidarity projects
We actively grow solidarity projects
We cultivate inner and outer work together.
The learning becomes living when we build something real across difference.
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Land stewardship
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Food and education sovereignty
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Post-capitalist economies
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Social justice work
Meet the Team
MALIKA VIRAH-SAWMY — Slime Mold
Creature shape-shifting constantly as it senses the network and moves with it.
NONTOKOZO SABIC — Lichen
First life on bare rock — ancient, patient, making hard ground habitable.
ANSIIMA CASINGA ROLANDE — Fireweed
First to rise on scorched ground — fast, fierce, unstoppable.
DANIEL HÖWEKAMP— Banyan
A generous tree as it becomes a forest on its own — learning to shape that abundance so others root beside him.
RAMEY RIEGER — Dwarf
Potent little hacker bringing medicine and grandmother eldering.
VINCENT VALDMANN— Baobab
Elder tree, wide roots, generous shade — opening the canopy so what grows beneath him gets full light too.
PETER KIDI — Fern
Ancient, fractal, unfurling slowly into something intricate and exact — every frond a precise, quiet poem.
MARTIN ABUMBA — Mimosa Pudica
Senses, responds, folds and reopens on its own terms.
VINCENT CHEPKOWNY — Whistling Thorn Acacia
Grows its own ant colony to protect it, and hums when the wind passes through. Mutual, alive with sound.