Cooperative
Our Cooperative
The cooperative is a group of 150 individual and organizational leaders demonstrating the revolutionary potential of redistributing resources. Composed of individuals, scholars, students, community members, organizations and institutional leaders the Cooperative designs and implements strategic experiential learning, uses embodied storytelling, connecting the spiritual implications of our historical wounds, and advocating for a just future. The Cooperative is committed to building a vision for holistic reconciliation grounded in spirit, steeped in liberation and honoring our understanding of human connection with the natural world.
Democratic Member Control
Restore Forward’s cooperative is democratic and controlled by its members – those who contribute transformational offerings, provide goods or use the services of the cooperative – who actively participate in setting policies and making decisions.
Member Economic Participation
Restore Forward houses a cooperative of retreat providers where in a single space, several collaborators contribute equally and democratically control the capital of the cooperative. We offer services, teachings and frameworks that move the dial towards greater healing and reconciliation.
Autonomy and Independence
Restore Forward’s cooperative is an autonomous organization committed to mutually sustaining its members. If the co-op enters into an agreement with other organizations or raises capital from external sources, it is done so based on terms that ensure democratic control by the members and maintains the cooperative’s autonomy.
Education, Training and Information
We engage in healing by centering Earth, with the Earth as a resource, countering a mental health paradigm currently informed by values rooted in patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy, and offer a variety of traditional, non-traditional and holistic healing and restorative practices. We invite healers, peace practitioners, activists and community builders to integrate earth healing, farming and the land as containers for processing and addressing past and present trauma, and for pathways to emotional and spiritual balance.
