Are there conversations you want to have with other festival attendees about what you’re hearing or, perhaps, what you haven’t heard yet? This is a space for identifying those topics and engaging with fellow attendees as you share with each other what’s on your minds.

How do we go from a swirl of ideas – and our own reactions to what we have heard and learned – to a sense of collective possibility and clear steps into action? What do we want to do with visions of a future that we want to see manifested? This workshop is an opportunity to work individually and in groups to answer those questions, and emerge with renewed purpose and mutual support.

Join us online on Thursday evening for an official Welcome and Orientation before we gather in-person at the Rooted Resources festival!

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

We want finance to work for people, not the other way around. What are ways that democratizing access to capital can provide new opportunities for abundance and equity in our communities?

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.

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.