The Rooted Care Lab: The Art of Bridging Futures

Rooted is a vibrant communal initiative—a living experiment in relational care and connection. At its heart, Rooted nurtures a care ecology, fostering friendship across divides through embodied study, practical love, and liberatory practices.

West African Elder, Patrice Malidome Some, once said that "The Cry for Community is everywhere in the West." The truth of this is what created the impetus for us to start the Rooted Global Village (Rooted) in early 2020. We both felt, and heard, this cry.  We are BIPOC-led communal space convening people from disparate social and geographical locations around the world. Our mission is create shared learning experiences and to build relationship (make-kin) across social, political, ideological and geographical divides. We aim to counter the toxic aspects of Western culture that sows the seeds of alienation, hyper-independence, and competition. We do this through an emphasis on critical consciousness raising, somatic practices, liberatory practices (through music and song) that create space for connection, and challenging embodied and entrenched orientations and perceptions that recreate division through the introduction of ideas, perspectives and practices (often marginalized) that can disrupt and shift established ways of being in relationship to self, each other, and our world. Our belief is that through such practices we cultivate the collective bodies capable of withstanding the tensions inherent in social change work.