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THE ARCHIVES OF BELONGING

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Enrollment opens Late Fall 2026

Who are you?

Not your resume. Not your role. Not the story you've been handed about your losses and your lineage.

Who are you — by blood, by bone, by soul, by spirit?

The question is the work.

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THE OFFERING

The Archives of Belonging is a sacred container for ancestral story-ing, witness, and becoming.

We move through four ancestral cycles — Blood, Bone, Soul, Spirit — tending both the wounds and the gifts of what was handed down, restoring the bonds of kinship with our ancestors in all their forms, and building a living archive of story, image, praise, and grief that belongs to all of us.

This is not therapy. It is not a workshop.It is a communal practice of becoming — rooted in Guided Autobiography, ancestral wisdom, creative expression, and contemplative tradition — grounded in the understanding that we come into ourselves in community, not in isolation.

We gather virtually, in an intimate group limited to eight. We write. We share our stories whole. We witness each other without fixing. We story our way home.

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THE FOUR CYCLES

Blood

The personal lineage. Inherited wounds and gifts. What was handed down by blood.

Bone

The body's long memory. What you carry that is older than you know.

Soul

Chosen kin. Those who recognized you in person, across time, across the threshold of death.

Spirit

Land, cosmos, the long becoming. Sun, moon, planets, stars, nebulae, deep field.

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This is for you if —

You sense that your lineage holds both wounds and gifts you haven't fully touched.
You are drawn to ancestral work, contemplative practice, or sacred community — and you want all three at once.
You know that who you are becoming is larger than who you have been told you are.
You are ready to stay with something long enough to meet what lives beneath the surface.

The first cohort is forming.

Enrollment opens Late Fall 2026.

An intimate group — limited to eight. All enrolled participants are welcomed at a group orienting meeting before the cohort opens.

Your Host,
Sherri Taylor

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I believe in the medicine of story — and in story-ing as a sacred act. The wound of separation diminishes all of us — and its deepest cuts have not fallen equally. Certain losses, certain lineages, certain ways of grieving and belonging have been denied accompaniment and dignity. The Archives of Belonging exists, in part, to tend what has been left untended.

I come to this work through my own losses — the ones that get named and the ones that don't: of identity, of certainty, of who I thought I was becoming. What I found inside them is what I aspire to bring. Not answers. Presence. And the deep conviction that no one should have to stand at the edge of great mystery alone.

This offering is rooted in the Guided Autobiography tradition — a facilitated autobiographical practice developed by gerontologist James Birren — woven together with ancestral wisdom, contemplative practice, and decades of accompanying people across thresholds of all kinds.