Living Research Program
Living Research Program
Next cohort: starts May 23rd
Length: 6 months with weekly calls (recorded), pauses to digest content + lifetime access to content
Format: Self-Study written and multimedia materials, with weekly zoom calls you can drop into + a Community group
Investment: $2200
Payment plans available: $393 x 6 months
Join:
Living Research offers a framework for understanding ourselves, the world around us, and knowledge itself that goes beyond the limits of our current epistemologies.
It is a methodology, guide and compass to our work at Soul Seed Gathering where we engage with ancestral, Indigenous, and cultural knowledge as it engages with us also.
We will look, see, feel and think with the world is it looks, sees, feels and thinks us too.
We will immerse ourselves in territories of wisdom, as we become explorers of consciousness.
No knowledge remains dead to a page and separate from us but becomes a field we dance within.
We are all researchers of this life, and the world around us.
Yet, we don’t always remain conscious to the process of how research, learning and experience is changing us.
Or how, what we are researching, is changing because of us.
When we visit any country, place or people, we’re creating a ripple of change by just being there.
But what happens when we become conscious of that? Take accountability and responsibility for what we bring to anything we engage with?
A whole place, people and subject can open up to us in ways it never would have, without our full presence and heightened awareness.
We’ve been schooled and conditioned to focus simply on cognition, and intellectual development. While ignoring all of our other senses, embodied understanding and extra sensory perceptions. We don’t learn to listen to our environment, ancestral spirits and place. And worse, we’re meant to simply memorize and accept what we’re learning, reading and hearing in school.
Rather than a process of attunement, rite of passage and protocol to receive knowledge and wisdom we’re actually ready to receive, hold and work with.
At Soul Seed Gathering we’ve held profound experiences with powerful elders, and noticed when guests have missed the true depth of the offering, distracted by conditioning, surface level thinking and expectations of a tourist or need for a formal presentation.
You can’t demand for knowledge, stories and access to deep ancestral cultures through people or place — rather you have to humble yourself, release all expectations and become highly attuned through all senses for secrets to reveal themselves. You can’t force the process of true knowing, you have to surrender and open to it.
This approach to research and knowledge gathering recognizes that everything can be subjective, relational, interconnected, environment-based and changeable. We do not live in a static, sterile world and we are not separate from the subjects we hope to understand.
Next Cohort
Our Living Research Program, next cohort begins May 23rd, with an introduction of this process and methodology shared over 6 months with weekly live calls. The materials get to be lived within your daily routines and life at a self-study pace. The calls may explore a particular lens into research or a research theme itself co-created by the group.
It’s a profound journey, one that will fundamentally shift your relationship to knowledge and transform your approach to research on any subject within your life.
To join email: soulseedgathering@gmail.com
As with all of our offerings, this program is an organic, collaborative experience. We invite active participation and the awareness that we all play a key role in the cohort we become a part of. Rather than a passive receiving of information and knowledge, you are called to fully live, embody and apply all that you are learning.
You walk away with
A deep connection to your life, the greater world, and all it includes.
A sense of feeling special because you are part of something special - this world and universe and everything it holds.
The invitation to be a life-long member of our community as a Living Researcher, to stay engaged, weaving and collaborating with us.
The invitation to join our journeys and sacred travel experiences as a Living Researcher. With first access and special discount to our events.
Conscious awareness of your impact, of who you are in the world, and of what is possible - unearthing your gifts for all.
Content
Context + Introduction
Learning about ourselves - subjective / objective
Living Territories 1
Living Territories 2
Ancestral Knowledge
Dreams
Sound
Taste
Scent
Vision
Voice
Language & Form
Body
Cognition
Feeling & Touch
Spirit & Energy
Extra Sensory Perceptions
Relationships
Culture Building
Coming Full Circle
FAQ
What time or days are the calls?
The weekly calls options are: Thursdays 1pm PST or/ Tuesdays 8am PST
(all calls are recorded)
Please reach out if these days/times don’t work for you so we can consider for future rounds
What is the start date?
We start: May 23rd (Thursday group) & May 28th (Tuesday group)
When are the breaks/ pauses in the program?
Breaks are:
June 6th- June 18th: Initial Self Research process
July 18th- August 6th: Ancestral & Dream research
October 25th-31st: Creative Submissions invited
How big is the group?
Max 6 per group
Do I need a background in research or academia?
No, we believe everyone is a researcher of their life & has something to contribute.
What do I need to contribute to the program?
You contribute first by taking part and sharing within our live calls. This is a co-creative ‘living’ program, where your experiences, insights and personal process matter.
Throughout the program you will have a folder you can add your own notes, inspiration, quotes you’ve come across, and personal exploration of our themes.
During our breaks you’ll be given specific tasks to explore and research in your own time.
At the end, we come full circle and you’re invited to submit a piece in your medium of choice (text, audio, video, art, music) to add back to the community.
What about after the program?
You have lifetime access to content and remain part of our Living Research community for life (if you choose).
We have our Living The Story community launching soon which all Living Research participants will gain discount for joining. This includes: monthly calls to put the Living Research process into action around our research focus and scope. If you have contributions accepted to our Living Library or published in our Magazine you will also receive a free month access.
What is the cost? Are there payment plans?
The Investment is $2200 pay in full.
Payment plans options include:
(now extended with longer time period)
If you join:
- in April = 7 payments of $343
- in May = 6 payments of $393
How do I apply for a scholarship?
Full and Partial Scholarships are offered on a rolling basis. Please get in touch to apply with what you’d like to contribute within our research themes and scope of focus, as well as sharing about your background and experience - for consideration for this round or future rounds.
I want to support this program and create more scholarship spaces - is that possible?
Thank you! Yes email us at soulseedgathering@gmail.com to do so.
How do I join?
Email soulseedgathering@gmail.com to join a call