mission

The Sacred Contract is a powerful declaration, process, and legal bridge that supports a foundational paradigm shift in humanity’s relationship with nature. To heal the myriad ills of our time, we must rekindle an indigenous, intimate, practical and ethical relationship with the very land we live and work on. The Sacred Contract provides practical and accessible tools for individuals, families, communities, land trusts, and municipalities who are ready to transform their relationship with the land they own. Our processes explore what it means to repair relations, come into legal integrity, and rejoin the community of all life. 

Objectives

• To reframe humanity’s relationship with the environment, from one of ownership to one of sacred relationship, and to state this new/ancient relationship in a document akin to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth.

• To create a transitional legal framework to support many different forms of land tenure into a deeply sacred, relationship contract with the earth.

• To provide practical and universal tools for all people to engage directly with the environment as a sentient being, in a sacred, respectful and cooperative manner.

• To create workshops that empower people to grieve, heal, and repair ecological, individual, and social trauma created by the loss of the wisdom of sacred relationship in our personal lineages and collective culture. 

• To provide a narrative context, practices, and engagement for healing the colonial wounds of our places inclusive with the first peoples of those places.

• To convene a diverse group of land practioners and land focused organizations to deepen into these inquiries and listen to the land together in order to guide the development of this work and insure that it is healing and truly intersectional.