call for collaborators!
The Healed Pericardium
the pericardium is the protective tissue that surrounds the heart.
We are searching for our dream team Advisory Council, who will act in the capacity of Co-Producers, Financial Investors and Spiritual Protectors for the capacity building phase of our project: “A Friendship That Can Withstand the Revolution.”
This is a six-month Artist Residency in Abolitionist Ancestor Theatre, Unlocking Ancestor Dreaming, and a Hands-On Research Practicum for a Village Artist Grant Ecosystem.
Throughout the Artist Residency, we will co-create a collective TIME KEEPER’S RARE CALENDAR, filled with notes, insights, lessons, gems, weapons and gifts from our investment in Ancestor Dreaming.
During the six-month period, we will listen, unearth, record and share the core ancestral guidance emerging through our deep listening with the earth and the cosmos, and that we engage through our research, practise, creations, storytelling, art-making, medicine-making, beloved friendships and lived experience, however unexpectedly our paths may unfold.
The process will be led by myself (Shaunga). I will provide core direction, guidance, and a central body of work for each of us to collectively study, learn from, and weave with your own practise and listening via:
✰ excerpts from my dream journal & live multiverse memoir
✰ unlocking ancestral guidance via script study: original stories from my storyteller’s apothecary, plus stories from popular film, TV or books
✰ open rehearsal: time to play, practise and learn fundamentals of abolitionist ancestor theatre (in craft and in life)
✰ offerings in my public teaching clinic of lost and found ancestral medicine
✰ BTS conversations on life, love and liberation with some of my greatest friends
What we can accomplish through co-creating a Time Keeper’s Calendar of shared mapping and weaving of ancestral medicine:
◎ we grow capacity, clarity, public celebration and funding to resource a multi-racial abolitionist ancestor healing life path as a whole
◎ we research and develop a collective body of thriving village practices, abolitionist relationship principles, and guiding planetary directives for our time
◎ we create a foundation, blueprint and practising model for earth-honouring, ancestor-honouring economies and systems of monetary exchange that we can grow & eventually pass down to the next generation
◎ we build more awareness for how our Ancestors are collaborating with the Land/Elemental Spirits and guiding Star Systems across various locations, building more opportunities to connect, collaborate and move in solidarity
◎ we identify the core values, interests, principles, priorities and protocols to keep us steady, strong, clear, miraculous and unstoppable, for the next 20 years of Pluto in Aquarius and beyond
Our Artist Residency gathers around this central question: how do we protect our alivelihood, and the alivelihood of our descendants, during times like these, or times like anything?
Our Time Keeping Calendar is held by our fundamental research inquiry: Shaunga’s vision for a Village Artist Grant Ecosystem.
Our design provides a collective organizing system that makes it possible for sovereign consenting village members to become each other’s source of public funding.
Meaning we can give, receive and raise 6+ figure artist grants for each other without having to go through non-profit, charity, academic, corporate, or government systems.
Part of our residency is a hands-on apprenticeship and money moving workshop to practise, develop and refine the foundation of our Village Artist Grant Ecosystem.
For the 6-month period, our “Time Keepers” will become our first small but mighty cohort to learn to embody sovereign village funding, which we will then share with our wider villages, networks and hoops.
what happens when we win?
When we have the time, resources and guidance as a small collective to practise the core components of this Artist Residency; ie when we get our needs met inside this ecosystem of ancestor dreaming, abolitionist friendship, and sovereign village public funding…
…the alivelihood we become and embody creates incredible advocacy for a real life cultural revolution, in our most needed and miraculous places:
❤︎ parents, community aunties/uncles/genderqueer weirdos, writers, artists of all kinds, students, crafts-people, service providers, small business owners, every day ceremonialists, medicine makers and altar carriers have an ecosystem to tap into where we can get paid, funded & resourced for the inherent labour of our entire creative process, and all the small things we do that otherwise never get direct reciprocity
❤︎ we have a model that funds the inherent labour of abolitionist friendship, ancestor healing, and cross cultural solidarity, which means we have the resources, time and spaciousness to prioritize what our hearts and spirits know we really should be doing with our time, instead of worrying about how to pay the bills while we do the hardest work of our lives, or banging our head against the wall, endlessly figuring out how to “monetize”
❤︎ we inspire money to move more easefully and abundantly from places it is currently stuck, scarce or hoarding, because we feel more safe investing in an economy that we know is designed to give back to us when we need to heal, grow, fall apart and live
❤︎ we put more money into storytelling and art-making that is explicitly co-created with Ancestors, in beloved communion with our Earthly relatives, and in right relationship with the land and the stars – because we know these stories are our greatest super power when it comes to inspiring the masses into liberation and solidarity
(*just look at how influential “the lion king” and every disney movie is on a generation, come on)
❤︎ we create an economy that revolves around resourcing the inherent labour of grief and grieving, because we understand the enormous power, liberation and wealth we can sustain when we truly learn to live and value sincere friendship with our grief, as individuals and collectives
❤︎ we take back our power where the tech industry has imposed some serious gnarly shit on our wisdom keeper movement, including what we think we have to do to keep growing, sustaining and monetizing our wealth, medicine and magic. what kind of healing could digital markets provide, if we built online environments that directly serve how we naturally want to share our medicine, unfold our research, and invite people into our worlds, instead of fitting our process into the apps they gave us?
❤︎ we take back our power of public funding as a whole: WE DECIDE what and how to serve all labour that needs and deserves public funding, and we become each other’s sources of public funding via strategically organized money moving workshops, ensuring none of us ever go hungry again
❤︎ we prioritize building both personal wealth, as well as financial sovereignty for small families, circles, hoops, and networks, which then creates the conditions for a universal badass income to eventually emerge
CALLING IN OUR ADVISORY COUNCIL: THE HEALED PERICARDIUM
We are looking for 3-5 people to join our Advisory Council for this 6-month Artist Residency.
This Council will provide Shaunga with:
1) financial investment while she guides a small team through our Time Keeper’s Calendar & Artist Residency
2) high quality spiritual advisement and feedback throughout the process of building capacity for our Village Artist Grant Ecosystem
Time Commitment: The Advisory Council can expect to meet twice a month for 2-3 hours at a time. Once we have our group we’ll confirm a schedule based on your availability. Your contribution may involve meeting together as a circle, and/or 1:1 with Shaunga.
Priorities of the Advisory Council:
☀︎ Protect Shaunga’s humanity, livelihood, vision and reciprocity, first and foremost, as primary steward and leader of this project, and the ancestral promise that she protects
☀︎ Protect Shaunga’s advocacy, and the spirit behind her personal advocacy that has enormous collective benefit
☀︎ Provide spiritual, financial and organizational advisement / feedback as matters arise through our 6-month time together
CRITERIA
To be part of the Healed Pericardium you must have:
☽ Phenomenal demonstrated investment and dedication to a liberation-focused, spiritual healing journey
☽ Depth of experience when it comes to mentoring or advising others on their Ancestor healing journey
☽ Your spiritual practise is grounded in deeply developed and practised commitments to politicized healing and you are in alignment with our VIPP commitments on our about page
☽ You experience sincere enjoyment, affection & enthusiasm for Shaunga’s work and voice, you believe in her advocacy and you desire to see public celebration for an abolitionist ancestor healing life path as a whole
☽ You are in a position of financial sovereignty & financial abundance: you are looking for opportunities to invest in projects that speak to your heart, and that embody what your spirit needs to see flourish in the world
☽ You are able to invest a minimum of 4-figures into the project each month for 6 months (5-figures is welcome if this is in your capacity!) You self-determine the amount you want to invest, and make us an offer. Note we are primarily working with USD but can accept Canadian dollars in some instances
☽ optional: you may contribute to a start up fund to give Shaunga and her team extra support while getting the project off the ground
how we support you
Everyone involved in the project benefits from Shaunga’s multi-tiered practise, her research, vision, design, teachings, stewardship, advocacy, guidance and leadership.
As Co-Producers, we offer you extra perks such as:
☄︎ access to Shaunga’s creative and spiritual luxury spa, ie high quality private support for your own livelihood, projects, dreams, spiritual/creative gifts and self care
☄︎ stakeholder benefits and ROI: as a team of co-producers, we offer the work we do back to you. As we grow our Village Artist Grant Ecosystem, we weave and re-direct the money we raise, and wealth of all forms, in collaboration with your practise/alivelihood and matters we mutually hold most dear
☄︎ optional: we co-create phenomenal opportunities to work together including: bring Shaunga to your community for artist retreats, workshops, benefit concerts, or other inspired collaborations (you can read about Shaunga’s “Close the Bones Tour” aka her traveling one-person-show on our website front page)
why we need you
It is of utmost importance that a project like this is funded by sovereign consenting village members, which can include individuals, partners or small collectives.
We are asking our village to make an intervention and provide for us what government, corporations, academia, big banks, hollywood studios, tech conglomerates, non-profit, charity models and a capitalist mindset have taken away from us: our right to public funding, as we determine it.
When entering this project, you understand on a fundamental level that it is dangerous to let someone like Shaunga, and a mission such as this, rely on capitalist/colonial funding bodies for genuine support and collaboration.
We are not opposed to receiving funding from those outside sources – in many instances we may welcome it – but it just can’t be the ground. Those industries cannot be our baseline source of support. In earth-honouring, ancestor-honouring economies, our village holds the bottom line.
This is paramount for us, especially at this stage – to protect Shaunga’s livelihood and safety, and so the process can remain in its integrity and abolitionist ancestral audacity.
Not to mention: millions of projects are currently losing their funding from the usual suspects. The success of this phase of development means we can provide an incredible possibility model for many others to learn from, adapt and apply to their own situations.
Most importantly, you are investing in an ecosystem that is fundamentally designed to give back to you when it is your turn to receive.
The core design of our ecosystem understands the inherent labour of resting, celebrating, falling apart, losing everything, deciding to stay alive, and choosing to be brave enough to start over again.
We come through the door understanding that when a village is thriving, sometimes we receive wealth by experiencing and apprenticing its lessons, and sometimes we receive wealth by investing, offering and feeding what keeps us alive.
That means, in this ecosystem people are supported to move freely between the role of giver and receiver. People who have higher amounts of financial reciprocity to give today, are weaving into an ecosystem that gives you back a village that will pour into you, during seasons that you are supposed to receive wealth and not earn it.
Moreover, we get that this is exactly the type of labour and process we must invest in today, to build the kind of friendship – with ourselves, each other and our planet – that can indeed withstand the revolution.
When it comes to our Healed Pericardium, it is important that we find not just the right people, but the best people. We need people who feel a strong heart pull to this mission, and are exponentially well purposed to join. If this is you, please do reach out and connect.
In the coming days, we will share more information on our onboarding process for our Healed Pericardium. There will be a process of self-assessment, application and get-to-know-you conversation before we proceed.
If you’d like to send an email with questions or thoughts before you book a conversation, please do so here – mercury@shaungatagore.com
Note that our Healed Pericardium is just one part of the full Residency, however we will not be able to run the project without this core team in place first. We are hoping to start the Residency in February 2026. However, we will only begin the process when we have enough funding and support in place.
If you want to be part of our Artist Residency, but you’re not the right fit for the Advisory Council, please stay tuned!
Aside from our Advisory Council, there are two different circles we have open for this upcoming cohort: Outer Circle (Good Listeners) and Inner Circle (VIP members).
There are several different ways people can contribute, participate and receive. We can’t wait to share more. If you have any burning questions or thoughts you want to share, feel free to email.
Keep a look out for my next post – I will share more about each circle, and how to apply for our Healed Pericardium.
In the meantime, feel free to check out the various tabs on this website, to learn more about Shaunga and this project, including what do we mean when we say, “abolitionist ancestor healing journey”? Shaunga and her friend Ravyn discuss this topic in our backstage area.
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