MISSED INITIATIONS:

A 2-hour workshop, supporting you in your role as an initiated adult.

facilitated by Rachelle Seliga & Thomas Doochin

December 15th at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern

You know the moment you needed something from your culture and it wasn’t there. That moment that would define the decades to come.

You looked around, and nothing truthful, coherent, nor respectful presented itself to support you.

You’re doing your very best to make sense of what you did not get, and still somehow be the kind of adult that gives to your children what you didn’t have.

Where were the Initiated Adults to show me the way?

We cannot go back to that moment when we were 6-years-old in the bathtub. Or that moment of our first crush at 13. Or that moment before our marriage where we were in the throws of innocence, young love, and blind faith.

But, we can recognize what happened then – and what didn’t. And in doing so, we can contribute to a culture that gives our children something different.

These are the Missed Initiations that shaped us. And in turning toward them, we have an opportunity and a responsibility to shape something different.

While we know that a 2-hour workshop will not remediate moments an entire culture was meant to hold for you, we also know this is somewhere to start.

We can: Make contact with what was missed, in relationship to other humans, and within this field of honesty and collaboration, something emerges.

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In Missed Initiations, we will:

Define the pivotal initiations of being human within modern times that are missed by the overculture
Define the pivotal initiations of being human within modern times that are missed by the Culture
Stop romanticizing the concept of “initiation,” and firmly land in the lived reality of initiation.
Map the Terrain of our respective lives
Acknowledge what was learned that has to be unlearned
Mine for Gold: Acknowledge what was learned that can be harvested as wisdom for your journey
Be witnessed by the group to create new possibilities

In this free class with Rachelle Seliga, you will learn:

A Reflection of Culture: The real story behind why postpartum Mothers are feeling depressed, anxious, rageful and psychotic
Why women's emotional intensity around birth and postpartum is a reflection of their health, and not a sign of dis-ease.
The Root Conditions required for Maternal wellness - including the five cross-cultural prescriptions of postpartum care.
How Mothers’ are the canary in the coal mine for humanity – and how through the bodies of Mothers – we are being alerted to our collective need of immediate change.- and by tending to this we tend to the very fabric of a living culture.
ONE major way we can take action to turn all of this around

Join us for Missed Initiations, with a group of exceptional women and men, where you get to share and reflect about the initiations you have traversed and the ones you needed held.

When you register for Missed Initiations before November 22nd, you will receive a free bonus class from Rachelle and Thomas. Described by one participant as “the best webinar I’ve ever gone to.”

Rachelle Seliga

Rachelle Seliga is a devoted Mother and Midwife whose work has been dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift - where our innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of Life are honored and centered - for over 20 years.

Rachelle's legacy work is INNATE Postpartum Care - Certification Training, which teaches "Physiologic Postpartum Care," the unifying tradition etched into the blood and bone of all postpartum women. Thousands of practitioners are trained in INNATE's body of work; supporting thousands of families worldwide.

Rachelle lives and works from the understanding that our physiologic design IS our divine design, which IS our "blueprint," which ARE our original instructions. These different ways to say the SAME thing acknowledge that there is an order, a structure, a map to LIFE that supersedes human will; it is Nature's Design. Nature's Design is Rachelle's Greatest mentor, and her work is grounded in Nature's Thriving Life Principles.

Rachelle is a woman enamored with LIFE and with a burning fire to live into potential. She values Aliveness, Relationships, Beauty, and Action, and knows from experience that the most effective and powerful usage of our respective & collective energy, comes from following that which is most alive in us - and creating from THIS place. In this way systems and structures that align with Life and our connection with it - are born.

Thomas Andrew Doochin

Thomas’ life has been a story of holding the both.

Born to a Jewish father whose people came over with nothing and built wealth through four generations of entrepreneurs, and a mother descended from Native, Scottish, and African sharecroppers in rural Eastern North Carolina—Thomas has always lived between worlds, believing that something beautiful is born through their bridging.

In his early 20s, Thomas founded and led a successful impact startup. He eventually sold the company after eight years, feeling he was losing something precious of himself in the process of building something so forward and external. He fled to the other end of the spectrum: 22 acres in the Appalachian Mountains with a solar-powered, spring-fed abode, and a humble reckoning with what he’d been searching for inside himself. He wrote the best poetry of his life in these days, but he felt fragmented, having put aside his ambition and outward service.

Without a model for how to weave worlds, Thomas realized he would have to lead himself into the reality he most deeply desired. Looking at the times we’re living in, he realized we would all have to do the same.

This is the work of Heart of Men. Thomas empowers men to know their place, live their purpose, and take courageous action toward a world worthy of handing down to our children. Thomas lives on that same land, caring for the forest, raising cattle, and tending ancestral corn. He lives alongside his wife, his son, and his parents who recently moved to share a more interconnected life.

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The WHY behind the Missed Initiations workshop:

Rachelle and Thomas facilitate a gathering + community, Rites of Reunion, to restore the sanity, sanctity, and dignity in relationship between women and men.

Our inability to function in relationship comes from the places within us where we haven’t yet become initiated adults; fully able to uphold the architecture of Life’s design. This is in large part because we missed the initiations that necessitate maturation.

While this is not our fault, it is our responsibility. The workshop Missed Initiations, is in service to becoming the initiated adults - that most of us didn’t have in our own lives - that can uphold a thriving possibility for the relationship between men and women, for our future descendants.