Sistership Week

What is sistership?

From our beginning explorations with the language, Zindzi was inspired to document her findings in the Creators Shared Diary, see Chapter 37: Initial Musings + Meanderings on Sistership. The following quotes are from Zindzi’s chapter: 

“Sistership is the vessel that carries us from self to sanctuary. In this vessel we consciously foster, fuel and fertilize each other's majesty, as best we can. It's not perfection. It's practice...”

“The Garden is a sistership where we consciously celebrate each other’s fertile majesty even as we explore and expand our own. In the spirit of such, we acknowledge that we are greater together ... better together ... more creative together. And that our togetherness sustains us, in and out of time and space.”

Nurturing our sistership one connection at a time…

Everyday during Sistership Week Mother Mother delivers juicy love notes to your inbox with prompts and invitations to deepen our experiences of sistership in the Garden. There are also continuing shares and explorations happening in Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties. Sistership Week is entirely soft-time, so you can join in anytime!

Let’s play Sistership Bingo together this week, and beyond! Whether you try something from our bingo board daily, weekly, or in your own rhythms, it’s all generative! This Sistership Bingo is a seed to encourage continuous connection, expansion, and love in the Garden. Feel for your Yes and do what brings you joy! Enjoy the magic and discoveries!

There is a bounty of divine stories of amazing sisterships that were born in the Garden! In our nearly 3 orbits (years) of being a congregation, some creators have found a place in each others’ hearts and lives–and their connection is forever. Seeding Sistership is a living oral story archive that we are creating to collect and amplify the voices of creators sharing deeply, tenderly, and vulnerably about sisterships that initiated, and/or evolved, in the Garden. How did you first meet? When did you begin feeling a sacred closeness to each other? How does your sistership nourish each other? 

HOW TO PARTICIPATE: If you would like to add to our Seeding Sistership archive, record a voice note about your sistership journey, by yourself or with the sister-creator you’re speaking about. Then send it to Mother Mother. It will then be uploaded into the Seeding Sistership soft-time practice portal, which will live inside the Sistership Enterprise wing of the Creators Portal. Happy sharing and discovering!

These are just a few awesome sisterships to get us started! From real life women in the world to beloved characters we grew up with, we know there are so many more examples of sistership. Please help us grow this list, and share juicy stories of the ways these sisterships grow and sustain the women who cultivate them. What does each sistership teach us? What possibilities do we realize for ourselves by witnessing these powerful sistership connections? Happy exploring and sharing!

This an excerpt of a poem Mother Mother wrote at the beginning of the Spring 2021 Garden, which was also our one-orbitaversary. It illuminates the energies of possibilities that source and sustain her in this ever-growing love and life that is the Garden.

Read the full poem in the Creators Shared Diary, Chapter 42: Once Upon A Garden.

Welcome to our evolving Sistership Dreamboard! You are invited to journey into these collective dreamscape labors and bring your visions of sistership to the center as we imagine together what a sweet, bright, abundant future could look like. The questions and images shared here are only just a beginning. Please add more pieces, textures, and elements to our Sistership Dreamboard in all the ways that nourish your joy:

• Pictures and images of places that resonate with our sistership dreams

• Voice notes with your dreams for the Garden

• Written descriptions of your dreams

• Words, language, pieces of text

• Poems

• Sketches and drawings

• Stories of our future moments together

• Collage, paintings, photography

• Recipes for meals and prescriptions for healing remedies

• Resources for growing plant and herb gardens

• Business plans and models

• Quotes, scriptures, affirmations

• Examples of other sisterships

• Ideas for building toward our dreams

• Maps of places, travel ideas, possible itineraries

• And whatever else you can dream up!

In Fertile Majesties Mother Mother will post juicy love notes and share more about what each of these images on the picture boards represents. These collages offer a glimpse of what she always sees in her mind when she thinks of the Garden growing for decades, and generations to come. 

We are all holding so many stories, so many dreams. The Garden is a loving, soft space to unpack our layers, and explore the diverse pathways from possibility to reality. As you move through your moments, carry these Sistership Dreamboard questions in your heart:

• What do you imagine our sistership will look like in the future?

• How are all the ways this sistership could grow?

• What will happen if we keep tending this garden of togetherness?