Hello folks, I just wanted to share some updates with y’all. We’ll be sending out an email every so often to keep you updated. Thanks for signing up!

What’s New

• Shared Ground is now a nonprofit corporation in Colorado!

• We are poised to make it official with our space for October 1st. That means signing a lease and getting the place spruced up!

• We are onboarding new Steering Committee members soon

• We are setting up our internal systems so we can keep on track with our goals

• We have several events on the calendar in September—read on for more!

Events Coming Up

Please bear with us as we are in the process of overhauling our events calendar systems… soon, look forward to a calendar on the website!

• We are overjoyed to welcome Honeycomb Healing, led by Fox Drickey, for regular Monday evening Movement Medicine classes! Classes are by donation, happening 6:15 - 7:30 pm on Mondays beginning September 5th, and consist of yoga and other forms of embodied healing movement. Feel free to drop in and try it out by donation!

• Lift the Spirit choir, coordinated by Kathleen Hooper of LVDY and Roy Willey of Voice Circle Colorado, is coming Tuesday nights to the Sanctuary space! 🎶🎶Look forward to their concert on December 13th.

• Our friend Adrian Mintzmeyer of Mountain Herbalism is back, offering two new courses: the Fall Community Herbalist series and a Complete Medicine-Making course. Check them out!

• Our own Caroline Savery (Fractal Praxis) is hosting a community ritual space for the Fall Equinox, also known as Mabon! All are welcome, and donations accepted. More details TBA. You can RSVP here.

How You Can Support

We have a lot to do to get ready for a possibly soft launch of the space on October 1st!

In the month of September we are seeking the following support:

• Fundraising. We are planting the seeds for a fundraising campaign that will help us secure the resources needed to launch Shared Ground! Donations will be tax-deductible due to our nonprofit (church) status. Please consider if you are able to make a donation, become a paying member, or help with outreach once we’re actively fundraising. More details coming in future newsletters.

• In-Kind Contributions. There is a lot we need to get our space lookin’ fresh and clean! In the month of September, we are accepting donations of good condition desks, chairs, folding tables, art/decor, and more. Fill out this form if you can contribute an item—especially if you can bring it to us!

• Get Involved. There will be new committees forming, as well as work party days to help spruce up the place, and just generally activating the space. For now, please fill out the interest form if you have not done so yet… and tell your friends and neighbors about us! We look forward to being in relationship with you and your visions for resilience.

You can reply to this email if you want to help!

The Steering Committee is Growing

In the coming weeks, we will be inviting and onboarding two new Steering Committee members to join Adam, Caroline, Kristina, and me (Drew). We’ll announce who is joining us soon (tease tease!).

Once that’s done we’ll begin review of our 📝 interest form and start to invite folks into sub-committees. So please fill out that form if you haven’t already.

Excited to dream and build with you,

Drew Hornbein <drew@dhornbein.com>
Kristina Ryan <kristina@kitchendoor.co>
Caroline Savery <c@fractalpraxis.com>
Adam Brock <adam@regeneratechange.com>