The starting team.

Jordan (Josie; she/her) holds a B.A. in English Literature from Davidson College and a Master of Arts in Peace and Justice from the University of San Diego, with additional coursework in law. Her graduate work examined ritual, liminality, and structures of meaning and power — foundations that shape SPIRIT’s approach. Her background spans Permaculture Design (True Nature Farms), wilderness survival and tracking (Boulder Outdoor Survival School and Tom Brown, Jr.’s Tracker School), Medical Herbalism (Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism), Authentic Relating (T3), and five years devising and teaching project-based curricula at a Colorado charter school for gifted children. In 2020, she founded Central Edge Leadership to share dynamic frameworks for navigating uncertainty and shifting entrenched patterns at the individual and community levels. Josie has lived and worked in the Front Range for over fifteen years. Her commitment to bioregional land stewardship is rooted in the conviction that durable belonging is grown slowly in real soil, the soil of the real.

Kathleen Marie Rose is a visual artist, photographer, gardener, community builder, healer, and embodiment guide whose work bridges regenerative culture, creativity, holistic wellness, and belonging. For over two decades, she has worked in land stewardship, wellness education, and community development, with backgrounds in permaculture and ecological gardening, yoga, herbalism, and transformational and healing arts. She is the founder of True to Essence, a photography and mentorship practice rooted in the liberative arts of becoming, and has helped cultivate community resilience initiatives across the US and internationally. As Creative Director of SPIRIT, Kathleen shapes the organization’s storytelling, visual identity, and community outreach, helping translate the vision of the Commons into experiences people can see, feel, and participate in.

Sarah (Naiya; she/they), founder of Ancestral Weavings, is an ancestral guide and grief activist, specializing in transformative journeys focused on ancestral reconnection and repair. She guides individuals, couples, and groups through threshold work to reconnect with ancestral wisdom, interrupt inherited patterns, and restore relational integrity. She holds over 10,000 hours of training in ritual healing and apprenticeship, with certifications including: Advanced Systemic Constellations (International Family Constellations Training Institute), Sacred Passage Death Doula (Chacana Spiritual Center), Psychedelic Therapy & Indigenous Wisdom (AWE Foundation), and initiations with the Cofan, Wixarika, and Pygmy Mabanji. She also holds a Master of Science in Intercultural Psychology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychedelic Studies focused on ancestral communal dreamwork and ritual.

Cameron Ely-Murdock is a systems designer, community organizer, and civic technology builder working to strengthen the connective tissue of communities. With an education in evolutionary anthropology and years of experience organizing events, mutual aid networks, local businesses, and cooperative initiatives across the Front Range, his work focuses on helping people coordinate resources, relationships, and collective action at meaningful scales.

Benjamin Life is a civic innovator, researcher, and artist working at the intersection of regenerative crypto-economics, bioregional coordination, and participatory systems design. His work explores the mythic and material dimensions of systemic transformation, cultivating anti-rivalrous infrastructures that empower communities to co-create shared abundance, resilience, and mutual care. His writing, research, code, and art can be found at www.omniharmonic.com.

Matthew Duffy is a cultural alchemist, poet, MC, and team player. Matthew has a background in food justice/sovereignty and was instrumental in the movement to decriminalize psychedelic plant and mushroom allies in Colorado and laying the groundwork for a people’s medicine movement. He’s also the founder of Drip Rhythm, weaving dance with solidarity and ecological justice initiatives.