Mirror Image of Nature: Movement and Metaphor

Drawing on her personal Indigenous lineage and culture, Rev Dele leads us on a journey to nourish a deep connection to land, each other, and a thriving social climate. Through movement, song, and metaphor, we will listen for the ecological lessons that will bring understanding of our role in collectively working towards democratizing wealth.

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Festival Kick-Off! Keynote

We celebrate this first opportunity for many of us to be together in community, in person, in a long time!
This evening session sets the tone for the weekend ahead as we begin considering approaches to money and wealth that make more just and equitable communities possible. We’ll ask questions like: What does “democratizing wealth” mean? What might it look like if it were realized in our communities? How could we better share resources to shift from individual survival to collective thriving?

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Reciprocity

We are inviting folks to come share, listen, and learn about ways people in our communities build reciprocity through mutual exchange to help us all thrive.

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Conflict Resilience in Circle

Why does money often foster so much conflict? If we understand money is an instrument of separation, then the conflict it engenders might be trying to bring us closer, so that together we can heal the original traumas of genocide, land ownership, slavery. If that is so, without conflict resilience, we can’t get to healing. Bring your “money conflicts” and together we will practice transforming conflict into resilience and insight, held in the healing space of a community circle.

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“Health is Wealth” Pop-up Clinic

The Good Work Institute is partnering with the Holistic Health Community to provide a “Health is Wealth” pop-up clinic at the Rooted Resources Festival on Saturday, May 14. There will be a range of different modalities featured from herbal health consultations to Shamanic Reiki Healing.

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Landback

In a country where land is seen as a commodity and a means to generate wealth, what does it mean when the land has been stolen? Democratizing wealth is not an easy topic, and in order to sort it out we must rectify a past filled with enslavement, genocide, brutality and thievery.

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Design a Cooperative Business!

Cooperatives are for-profit businesses that bake democratizing wealth and governance into their very DNA. In this interactive session, we go over the basics of what cooperatives are and can be, we journey in teams to design a co-op to solidify our understanding together, and we discuss the role of cooperatives in the Hudson Valley.

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Property as Wealth

Private home and land ownership are a primary driver of wealth-building and, conversely, of generational wealth gaps. Join this discussion with panelists whose work addresses the challenges of the current property ownership and housing landscape.

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At the Root: Our Stories and Values

We all have stories related to money. Whether we grew up with a lot of money or very little, our access to wealth greatly shaped our lives. TMI Project will facilitate a space where, through the use of prompts, participants will free-write and have the opportunity to read.

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