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 connect with ‘creative expression’ as divinatory, cyclical, and medicinal. As a cohort, Fellows engage in shared practice, to shift perspective and step behind stories of individual creativity, into an alignment with the patterns and forces that underlie life. From this ground, Fellows recognize the instinctual expressions moving through them each as receptive, collaborative, responsive beings within a vast mysterious network.
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 its own perspective, and individualist self-expression and fulfillment as creativity. The Fellowship is an offering of space to uncover ‘self’ as a receptive, sentient being with the capacity to communicate Humanity within a vast network of being, and approach creativity as offering.
Each iteration of the program is shaped by prior participants; it has been a responsive and shapeshifting container 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 my purpose.’ The program aims to directly connect to what arises through each person most naturally, a specificity of Being and recognition of what they bring to the whole, and does not solely belong to them as individual. As bees in a hive, we re-locate our ‘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 rhythms of seasons and of celestial bodies; we work with dreams as an innate collective 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; and we learn simple ways of working directly with underlying forces that give rise to physical form.
Below you can find a new project of active storytelling, a living archive, of and by past Fellows. Each participant was asked to go through a process of reflecting and sharing their ‘story of creativity’ — meaning, an ongoing 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
Coming soon
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Maggie Herskovits
Fellowship: 2019
Coming soon…
Ray Neirene Ellis
Lauren Geyman
Natalia Leginowics
Jaq Belcher
Dawn Breeze
Allie Townsend
Zaida Adriana Goveo Balmaseda
Alex Goldberg
Meghan Gilbert
Nadia McKinney
Chelsea Bravo
Anna Kaminski
Chelsea Amato
Kyrie Joyce
Diana Brisca
Nica Rabinowitz
Maggie Herskovits
Victoria Smolinski
Tatiana Godoy Betancur
josi valle ellis
Kelsey Lejuez
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Program Overview
The Fellowship is an invitation to relating — within a cohort of creative humans, in an animate world. 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 energetic medicine; group inquiry; 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: For 3 months, 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: The next 3 months, the cohort grounds in this information, observing the density of our stories that overpower raw experience and instinct. Here we incubate relationship to creative energy and how it moves.
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 mid-September through mid-June. 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 Practices
The Fellowship revolves around shared practice, meaning the group will be taught a set of specific protocols to use on their own and in the group context. Each is meant to be woven into any existing practice of each Fellow, and to open and support an ongoing awareness of being within a network, and of ‘getting out of the way’ of the natural wellspring of life-force energy in motion.
Below are the core practices that the cohort will engage with over nine months:
SourcePoint Therapy is an approach at the center of Fellowship shared practice. It is a profoundly simple form of energetic bodywork that addresses the many forces at play that disturb the inherent health of the system. Health, from this perspective, is a system’s resonance with the patterns that give rise to form. SourcePoint is a way of working with Pattern to address pattern — those which have become stagnant or rigid — and return, at subtler and sublet levels, to alignment with the natural flow of change. There are several aspects of SourcePoint which can be done for oneself without formal training, and additionally, the individual Fellow sessions will primarily call on receiving SourcePoint.
Under the umbrella of this approach, we weave several other practices together, both as a group, and through 1:1 sessions:
Self-inquiry in a very specific way that gently allows collective exploration of our relationship to what we call ‘the mind,’ and the convictions that unconsciously shape our perspective, perception, and behavior;
Animist dreamwork as an ongoing practice of experiencing consciousness as the Earth dreaming, rather than as individual or solely differently than we are used to — not as individual, but shared, consciousness within an animate universe that we are an active participant.
Astrology allows the group some shared language to discuss the larger energies at play, and the cycles we are within.
Relationship with plants, through flower essences, offers an opportunity to collectively explore reciprocity with consciousness of specific plants located at Succurro, grounding the group in this particular land, and creating opportunity to do the same in each Fellows immediate environment.
Guest facilitators share their land-based, ancestral, somatic, and art-making practices.
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Program Facilitators
The Fellowship has evolved greatly since beginning in 2016, through the practice of Owyn Ruck. While Owyn remains the core facilitator of the program, she invites many guests — primarily past-Fellows — to lead specific gatherings based on their skills and path of interest.
The 2026-27 guest contributors is still forming, but as an example these are the guests from 2025-26:
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Program Costs & Commitments
The total cost of the Fellowship program is $1,350 — which can be paid in increments over the nine months, or in full.
The Fellowship includes individual sessions 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 any 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 is no formal scholarship program available for the Fellowship. 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 enrolled, through the button below, you will receive further details for beginning the program which includes an intake and several questions for consideration. Each Fellow will receive a package at the start of the program.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Owyn at hello@succurro.co . We are also happy to connect you to past Fellows, to talk about their experience in and beyond the program.
The program will begin in mid-September 2026, with an introductory call for the cohort on Sunday, September 20.
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Post-Fellowship
The Fellowship is a welcoming into a network of humans 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 including longer-term 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 and art-making 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.
