def; the condition or relation of being a companion; kinship;
a community of shared practice.
Fellowship
The Fellowship is a nine month incubation for those seeking to collectively explore ‘creative expression’ as divinatory, cyclical, and medicinal. As a cohort, Fellows engage in shared, ongoing practice to step behind stories of human creativity into an alignment with the patterns and forces that underlie life. From this ground, each Fellow recognizes the instinctual expression through them specifically, as an emergent channel and vessel within the network of being.
The Fellowship program is at the root of Succurro. Initiated in the Fall of 2016, the program is a response to a contemporary human obsession with with itself, it’s own perspective & recognition, individualist self-discovery, and ‘identity’ as who-I-am separate from the whole. This extractive, exploitative energy is found throughout contemporary human constructions and narratives. The Fellowship is an offering of space to rest and uncover Humanity within a vast network of being.
Each iteration of the program is shaped by prior participants; a responsive and shapeshifting offering with an inherent structure. The nine months is a long-form inquiry; a stepping-behind of the handed-down convictions we hold sacred, defining what it is to be ‘creative’ and driving the need to ‘find a purpose.’ The program aims to reconnect to what arises through each person most naturally, a specificity of Being and recognition of what they bring to the whole, that does not solely belong to them as individual. As bees in a hive, we re-locate our job and role, in service of Life in its fullness.
Shared practice is at the core of the Fellowship, while honoring differing needs and experiences of each participant. Together, we follow the cyclical rhythm of seasons and of celestial bodies; we work with dreams as an innate form of communication with more-than-human consciousness and subtle psychic realms; we follow the curiosity of the discerning mind to witness the identities driving behavior and masking instinctual knowing; we learn simple ways of working directly with underlying forces that give rise to our embodiment.
Below you can find the stories of past Fellows. This is a new project of active storytelling, a living archive. Each participant was asked to go through a process of reflecting and sharing their ‘story of creativity’ — meaning, a recognition of the process of recovering ‘creativity’ as divinatory, a connection to Source, in service of the whole.
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Isabella Amstrup
Fellowship: 2019
Isabella Amstrup explores weaving as embodied ancestral practice in relationship to land and deep time.
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Rebeccah Stromberg
Fellowship: 2019
Rebeccah Stromberg is a researcher, baker, and ritual practitioner exploring traditional and contemporary healing arts.
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Lauren Geyman
Fellowship: 2019
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Ray Neirene Ellis
Fellowship: 2019
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Isabella Amstrup
Rebeccah Santa Ana Stromberg
Ray Ellis
Lauren Geyman
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Alex Goldberg
Dawn Breeze
Alex Crowder
Allie Townsend
Josi Valle Ellis
Emily Johnston
Kyrie Joyce
Chelsea Bravo
Anna Kaminski
Chelsea Amato
Nica Rabinowitz
Maggie Herskovits
Victoria Smolinski
Tatiana Godoy Betancur
Ricky Ray
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Program Overview
The Fellowship is an invitation to uncover/recover relationship to animate forces, spirit, and the network of being, and to create and be of service from this ground. The program follows a curriculum guided by the principles of the shared healing arts practices that will be done together over nine-months and include place-based, ancestral, and energy medicine; group inquiry; and personal and collective dreamwork. We explore our unique roles in the network of being, and the multiplicity of ‘self’ that participates in that web. Primarily, the program serves those who consider themselves artists or healing practitioners, but is open to anyone exploring these questions and topics.
The curriculum is made up of three sections that prepare the cohort to step into the stream that flows beyond the program:
Sourcing: The cohort learns specific protocols that will be used throughout the program, providing a shared set of practices that work well with any pre-existing lineages and knowledge of each Fellow, or easily stand alone as a foundation for those who do not currently have any specific lineage or protocols.
Grounding: As the cohort re-sources in shared practice, we ground the system in this information, rather than the density of our stories that overpower raw experience and instinct. Here we follow the descent into an ‘underworld’ to incubate relationship to creative energy and how it moves in our lives.
Activating: Having grounded in this information, we activate it — bringing forth what is ready to emerge, at this time, and spiral beyond the borders of this program. Here we collectively dream into being a ‘project’ — a meandering path — and bring awareness to our responsiveness to this unfolding mystery.
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Program Elements
The program is comprised of several interwoven elements that each Fellow will participate in:
Individual Sessions: Fellows have access to one personal session per month, to engage more deeply with the practices. This element allows for the specificity of what each Fellow is undergoing, addressing each persons experiences, and providing guidance as needed.
Group gatherings: Fellows participate in two monthly gatherings from September through May. These gatherings will be time for being in practice together, group inquiry, and sharing of experience.
Supporting Content: Fellows will have access to an online portal of additional and supporting content, including videos, readings, and exercises.
Culminating Project & Sharing: Each Fellow will work toward a ‘project proposal’ as a culmination to the program, and going forth beyond the program borders. Fellows will share these projects with each other in their incubatory stage, as they are birthed. We aim to keep in touch with all past-Fellows who wish to remain part of the greater Fellow network, sharing progress and evolutions of these projects and contributions in the world.
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Program Dates
Enrolled Fellows should expect to participate in the dates below. As the program revolves around a small cohort, Fellows are expected to attend as many gatherings as possible to take part in what emerges through the group.
Introductory Online Gathering: Sunday Sept 20, 2026
2x Monthly Online Gatherings: Second & Last Sunday of each month, 10am-12pm EST, October 11, 2026 - June 20, 2027
Optional In-Person Gathering @ Succurro: May 21-23, 2027
Individual sessions: Will be scheduled with each Fellow
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Program Facilitators
The Fellowship has evolved greatly since beginning in 2016, through the practice of Owyn Ruck. While Owyn still acts at the core facilitator of the group, she has invited several past Fellows to lead specific gatherings and share based on their skills and path of interest. The 2026-27 facilitators are:
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Program Costs & Commitments
The total cost of the Fellowship program is $1,250 — which can be paid in increments over the nine months, or in full.
The Fellowship includes individual attention each month, in addition to four hours of group gatherings monthly, and additional online materials and support. There is an optional in-person gathering open to all at the culmination of the program.
It is expected that participants be ready to commit to the full program including payments, and to the ongoing emergence and process of the program. It will not always feel ‘good’ or ‘easy,’ but you will be supported (and in turn support others) in moving through your experience. There will be a maximum of 12 people in the cohort, to foster dialogue during group gatherings, and to provide the appropriate attention to each person.
Fellows are expected to attend as many group gatherings as possible, to participate in their monthly sessions, complete all assignments, and make payments on time. A certificate of completion can be given at the end of the program to all who meet these requirements, if desired.
At this time, there are not scholarships available for this program, but we are working toward that in the near future. Payment plans are available for all.
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Program Enrollment
Enrollment for 2026-27 is underway, and will close September 1, 2026.
Once you have submitted the form, you are committing to joining the cohort, and will receive further details. If you have any questions, please reach out to us by email. We are happy to connect you to past Fellows, as well, to talk about their experience in and beyond the program.
Enrollment consists of a few long-form questions, a proposed project at this point, and one letter of reference. Enrollment is this ‘rigorous’ as we seek to serve those who are committed to such a program at this time, and the process begins at the time of submission simply by considering these questions.
The program will begin in late September 2026, with an introductory call for the cohort on Sunday, September 20.
Please reach out to hello@succurro.co with any questions
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Program History
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Post-Fellowship
The Fellowship is a welcoming into a community of humans who who continue to uncover/recover their relationship to each other, animate forces, spirit, and the network of being, to create and be of service from this ground.
Beyond the program, there are opportunities for connection, which have taken different shapes: residency time at Succurro; support for larger projects; connections to other Fellows; and ongoing gatherings through inquiry and dreamwork.
Past Fellows are invited to participate in the Storytelling Archive, which is a process of sharing the key moments of recovering relationship to creating as divinatory practice, as connection to Source, and expression of a Self beyond our stories to be in service of the whole through that creation process.
