LIVING BRIDGES
A Universe-ity for the Weavers Between Worlds
“Good leaders lead. Great leaders heal.”
—Papalii Dr. Failautusi ‘Tusi’ Avegalio
living bridge (v.)
A (k)new responsibility for our bridging time between paradigms.
To living bridge is to become permeable, a threshold where worlds meet. Holding ancestral wisdom and modern systems, ceremony and strategy, reverence and transformation simultaneously, without collapsing either.
Living Bridges create walkways through which 10,000 years of kinship intelligence re-roots in institutions designed for extraction.
This is a sacred responsibility (kuleana) not a “career”. The capacity to tend both what's dying and what's being born, so relationality replaces transactionality, and the future honors seven generations is the main focus.
Translators. Weavers. Expanding ancestral consciousness into collective consciousness.
Guided by Etuaptmumk: Two-Eyed Seeing
Our work is rooted in Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing)—a Mi'kmaq teaching from Elder Albert Marshall. Etuaptmumk means seeing from one eye with Indigenous ancestral ways of knowing and from the other with Western ways of knowing, using both together for the benefit of all.
This is the gift of multiple perspectives working in integrity: not blending or extracting, but honoring both ways of knowing as complete, strengthening each other when held in relationship.
At Living Bridges, Indigenous wisdom guides while Western science validates and amplifies. Together, they create solutions neither paradigm could reach alone: regenerative systems, kinship-based governance, and transformation rooted in 10,000 years of proven intelligence.
We build knowledge-systems interfaces that enable the perspectives to speak clearly to one another and unite in alliances and processes.
Meet Your Guides
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Kumu Ramsay Taum
Kanaka Maoli Elder
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Alejandrina Pedro Castañeda
Mazatec Elder
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Mindahi Bastida
Otomí-Toltec Elder
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Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook
Oglala Lakota Elder
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Chief Nixiwaka Biraci Yawanawa
Yawanawa Elder
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Damixi Geraldine Patrick Encina
Earth Timekeeper
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Papalii Dr. Failautusi Avegalio
Samoan Elder
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Rutendo Ngara
African Knowledge Systems
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Kahu Kalani Souza
Kanaka Maoli Elder
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Eimear Burke
Head of the Druid Order
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Ken Kitatani
Kannagara Elder
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Katsi Cook
Mohawk Midwife and Elder
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Paul Stamets
World’s Leading Mycologist
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Dr. Anita Sanchez
Nahua (Aztec) & Toltec Elder
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Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
Traditional Tibetan Medicine
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Charles Eisenstein
Author and Teacher
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Wakanyi Hoffman
Writer and African Indigenous Knowledge scholar & researcher
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Paltemai
Wixarika Elder
What makes Living Bridges different?
Building the World’s Largest Network of Bridges and Weavers
Living Bridges is a global movement building the largest network of bridges and weavers translating Indigenous ancestral intelligence into systems transformation. Together, we're creating the relational intelligence and infrastructure for the emerging paradigm: regenerative governance, kinship-based economies, and futures worthy of seven generations that utilize both knowledge systems for true innovation and evolution.
1. Indigenous Elder-Governed (Not Just Advised)
Most programs are Western-led with Indigenous consultation. Living Bridges is taught by an Elder Council where curriculum, revenue, and accountability decisions work with Elders, ensuring authenticity and integrity at every level.
2. Training Weavers, Not Just Skills
We cultivate your capacity to hold both worlds, ancestral wisdom and modern systems, translating between them with integrity. This isn't a leadership training, it is becoming the bridge the world needs.
3. Two-Eyed Seeing as Core Methodology
Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) is a lived reality. Every session, partnership, and practice strengthens both Indigenous and Western ways of knowing working together for the benefit of all.
4. Ceremony as Governance Technology
Ceremony isn't cultural decoration. It's how we shift consciousness, clear colonial patterns, and attune to relational intelligence—the deepest infrastructure for paradigm transformation.
5. The World's Largest Network of Weavers
We're building a global constellation of 1,000+ practitioners across finance, policy, corporate, NGO, and grassroots sectors—a mycelial network reshaping systems from the inside out, together.
6. Cosmological Timing: Training Translators for the Sixth Sun (2026-2039)
We're aligned with Mayan cosmology's transition from the Fifth Sun (extraction) to the Sixth Sun (kinship). This work isn't accidental—it's cosmically timed for the bridging period humanity is navigating now.
7. Earth Credits: Supporting Elder-Led Projects & TEK Centers
When you join Living Bridges, you receive Earth Credits—60% of revenue supports Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) center builds, Elder-led regenerative projects, youth education programs, and bioregional initiatives protecting land and culture for future generations.
Your participation directly funds:
Sacred site restoration and protection
Indigenous youth leadership programs
Language revitalization projects
Seed sovereignty and food systems
Water stewardship and biocultural conservation
8. Highlighting & Uplifting Elder-Led Initiatives Globally
Our network showcases and channels resources to Elder-guided projects that need support—from Otomí water governance in Mexico to Māori ocean stewardship in Aotearoa, from Amazon forest protection to Arctic climate resilience. When you join, you become part of amplifying and resourcing these futures.
9. Linking, Not Scaling: Partnership Protocol Over Growth
We grow through partnerships with networks like Second Renaissance, Moon Dojo, and Culture Hack Labs—building corridors, not empires. Mycelial collaboration, not competitive extraction.
10. Training Translators for Institutional Transformation
We don't focus on personal awakening alone. We train practitioners embedding Indigenous governance into Fortune 500 companies, UN agencies, governments, financial institutions, and policy frameworks—reshaping the systems that shape our world.
This is a time sensitive project
Our aim for this two-year project (2024 & 2025) is to gather 2,025 people from across the globe in a time-sensitive yet presence-based urgent effort to equip them with the supportive courageous community, transformative worldview, and actionable skills needed to seed societal tipping points rooted in kinship and interconnection. Together, we will take bold, on-the-ground actions to co-create regenerative, beautiful, post-growth futures.
This is not just a project—it’s a movement with a time-cap. By the end of 2025, this initiative will culminate, and the opportunity to act decisively as a united force will have passed. The Earth is calling us to remember who we are: her children, interconnected and interdependent. The time to reunite, to rise, and to act is now. Let us come together to honor our responsibility, ignite change, and co-create a world worthy of future generations.
How does it work?
There will be assigned cohorts of community members, split into focal groups with accountability structures that seed this powerful movement into actionable waves that ramp us collectively closer to global societal tipping points.
Key parts of this initiative are:
A message from the Kogi Mamos of Colombia;
Self-paced 6-week course with exclusive content;
Assigned, subject-based group-breakout calls;
Diversified research and intersectional resources with case studies and examples of how to enact tipping points on multiple levels;
Media library of infographics and images to use on LinkedIn and other social networks with a united thread and narrative;
Post-growth business frameworks and alternative KPIs;
Step-by-step individual and collective action-plans;
Global bioregional community hubs formation for localized action with global contextual relevance;
Accountability structures in place to ensure that these movements are truly taking root, not in concept alone but in action!
Note: there are no refunds once applying and paying for the course. You become a member of the community and have access to the content for your lifetime.
Meet the Content Designers
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Ryan (Ra) James Kemp
Founder of (re)Biz. Trailblazer at the intersection of cross-cultural worldview, wisdom and modern business
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Erin Remblance
Degrowth thought sharer, post-growth researcher and writer
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Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov
Architect who has experience in converting minority insight into majority action.
“What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today”
— Winona LaDuke