If you crave or cherish brave connection with your community, your ancestors, and yourself, this episode is for you.

Trevia Woods is a mixed-race woman with Indigenous ancestors who has two decades of experience in bodywork, education and community-building. She has roots in the Midwest and Colorado, after traveling the world finds herself back in America finding her roots and how she belongs in the world. Trevia supports people in unpacking cultural appropriation, community building, as well as helping Culture Makers gift the world with their knowledge, lived experience and wisdom so not only they, but their clients can thrive.

In this episode, we discuss the differences between cultural appreciation and appropriation, the challenges of building community amidst all the messiness we bring, and the time it takes to know and trust people.

We also unpack how hard it is to release urgency, and Trevia shares more about her ancestral history and how she’s crafting local community right now — with the devotional practice of a Buy Nothing group.

More from Trevia

• Visit Trevia’s website, Many Trees Lifeway
• Follow Trevia on Instagram @trevia_woods
• Purchase Feel Better. Do Better.: A Guide for People Who Want to Change the World, but Sometimes Have Trouble Making It to Lunch

Resources

• Episode #107: Feeding & Healing Ourselves Amidst Collapse with Carmen Spagnola
• Beau of the Fifth Column’s videos on Community Networking 101, Finding your Community Network & Keeping Community Networking Going
• More on White Supremacy Culture
• Belonging Episode #36: Creating Nourishing Community with Nisha Moodley
• How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
• Episode #78: Non-Linear Reciprocity and Skills to Traverse Change with Jessie Harrold