Fellowship

Since 2016, the Fellowship has gone through many iterations in order to research, engage, and experiment with curriculum. We invite you to learn more here about past iterations or read about past Fellows and their experience and the effects of the program.

Program Overview

The Fellowship is a research-based exchange program that is dedicated to deep inquiry into the role of The Artist within the collective, looking at the impact of creativity on health, and healthy creativity of humans, on the ecosystems they are part of. What is healthy creativity in today’s world? What impact does this creativity have on my health and the health of my communities? What does creativity look like when it is impersonal and not human-centered? Specifically, the protocols and methodologies practiced and shared at Succurro are the basis for this inquiry.

Over a period of 9 months, a total of 8 participants examine their relationship to the impersonal creative energy that flows through them, ‘getting out of the way’ enough to channel this into practical action in the world, in service of the whole. Equal parts education, residency, and professional development, the program offers a unique experience in a cohort setting, investigating ‘creativity’ and ‘inspiration’ in a way that many programs do not. We wish for participants to exit the program with a deepening understanding of their practice in the world, prepared to take further steps on their path of service as Artist.

During Fellowship, participants will have the opportunity to cultivate a personal ancestral medicine and journeying practice – connecting with the animate nourishing and sustaining forces present within the web of relations we are all necessarily a part of – a web that includes and extends far beyond the human. 

Program Components

The Fellowship follows a curriculum based in the principles and practices of SourcePoint Therapy and BreakThrough, guiding participants through individual sessions, group gatherings (both online and in-person), pre-recorded material and assignments, critical dialogue, and a culminating weekend to share projects within the group. Below is a brief outline of each component, followed by specific mandatory dates for participation, exchange, and application process.

INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS

Each of the 8 Fellows will work 1:1 with the facilitator every month. Participants will engage directly with the modalities practiced at Succurro to examine their own relationship to the material and address what is being catalyzed through the program. They will also receive guidance and integration through their own creative practice.

GROUP GATHERINGS

The group will gather once per month online, and come together in-person twice at Succurro (all dates listed below.) The online meetings will consist of discussion amongst the group, periods of group inquiry and process-oriented workshops, and time for review and critique around assignments throughout the year. We will engage in dialogue about the creative process in ways that may be new to participants, to step behind our individual stories of what we should and should not be as creative beings in the world.

The in-person gatherings at Succurro occur at the beginning and end of the program — we will have a kick-off weekend, and culminating weekend so the land acts as container and context.

PRE-RECORDED MATERIAL, GUIDED PRACTICE & ASSIGNMENTS

Throughout the year, Fellows will be given assignments that follow a curriculum broken into four parts: Source, Grounding, Activation, and Transformation. These assignments will also be integrated with readings, guided activities, and recorded material.

As part of guided practice, participants will have the opportunity to cultivate a personal ancestral medicine and journeying practice within the Fellowship context. Journeying is a practice that directly engages with the unseen, with the more-than-human: including land, ancestors, plant spirits, animal spirits, land and mineral spirits, elemental spirits, deities, and on: all our relations, all our kin. We engage this practice in service of health – the health of the individual and the collective: remembering old-new ways of reciprocity and right relation; and re-membering the collective body we share with all.

CULMINATING PRESENTATION

The culminating weekend at Succurro will allow each Fellow a concrete way of developing and presenting work within the context of the program. Approximately half-way through the program, Fellows will begin developing a project with guidance from the cohort and facilitator. At the last weekend, each Fellow will present their work (or progress of) to the group. Fellows will be asked to document their project and process throughout the time, to be shared on our website at the end as part of the exchange, in contribution to the research outcomes of the program.

Program Dates & Schedule

Accepted Fellows should expect to participate in the following:

Introductory Online Gathering: Sunday August 25, 2024

First In-Person Gathering @ Succurro: September 27-29, 2024

Monthly Online Gatherings: Last Sunday of each month, October - May

Culminating In-Person Gathering @ Succurro: May 30 - June 1, 2025

Individual sessions will be scheduled with each participant throughout the Fellowship

Program Exchange

As this program is run fully by sliding scale to meet very basic costs of operation, we expect accepted participants to be in a place ready to commit to the full program, the inquiry at hand, and to this process, as part of stepping into their role in the collective. There will be a maximum of 8 people in the cohort, to foster intimate dialogue during group gatherings, and to provide the appropriate attention to each individual.

The exchange for the program falls in three categories: 1) a commitment to the program in its entirety, including all mandatory dates and sessions; 2) to participate fully by creating and seeing through a project to contribute to the research aspect of the program; 3) a small monetary contribution, by sliding scale on a monthly basis which directly covers the cost of in-person weekends (food, lodging) and supports the facilitator. The sliding scale is between $25-$100/mo ($225-900 for the full program.) Fellows are responsible for their travel costs to and from Succurro for in-person weekends, and for all material and documentation costs related to their projects.

Application

Application Deadline: May 31, 2024

Interviews: Mid-late June

Acceptances: Early-mid July

Program will begin in September 2024, with an introductory call in late August

Please reach out to hello@succurro.co with any questions

Program Facilitator

Rebeccah Santa Ana Stromberg

Rebeccah will be the main facilitator of the 2024 Fellowship. Rebeccah was first a Fellow herself from 2019-2022. She has lived at Succurro over the past few years, developing her practice as both an artist and practitioner. Rebeccah will be supported in her facilitation by Owyn Ruck, co-founder of Succurro and creator of the Fellowship program.

Hello! My name is Rebeccah. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and these days I’m based in the Catskills.

I work at the intersection of contemporary healing modalities and ancestral medicine practices. I’ve devoted the last several years to studying traditional, Indigenous, as well as other contemporary embodiment and healing practices cross-culturally as a practitioner and scholar.

In 2022, I received a Master of Divinity from the Harvard Divinity School and completed SourcePoint Therapy training. I’ve trained as a hatha yoga instructor; and I train in BodyTalk and BreakThrough. I practice ancestral medicine, working with pattern, rhythm, and song to attend to the network of relations that we are all a part of: a network of relations that includes and extends far beyond the human.

Nourishment deeply undergirds all aspects of my practice, and I return to the anchor and wellspring of making food, bread, and drink with my hands and a sense of devotion, connecting with a deep well of nourishment that is always available.

I call on each of these threads to support the emergence of health in the individual and the collective. In addition to session work, I offer journeying – working with rhythm and song to support the health of the individual and their network of relations in whatever is arising at this time.