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Why have an Inner Child Ball?
Playfulness has a powerful potential to help us find our way home to ourselves, to connect our inner child and outer adult to freedom and expression. The more we attend to and care for our inner child, the more we can become more fully alive and whole.

River Aaland
May 23 min read


Communal Grieving Songs & Stories
Woven’s programs for communal grieving are ongoing. On Nov 12 we will gather in song to metabolize our grief and celebrate our aliveness
Jessica Land
Oct 26, 20243 min read


Conversation on Communal Grieving
Thank you to all who have participated in our ongoing Conversation on Communal Grieving. Since November we have hosted two events—one...
Jessica Land
Feb 18, 20242 min read


On communal grieving
a personal reflection from WOVEN volunteer and co-founder, Jessica Land For decades I’ve been aware that I carry deep sadness about...
Jessica Land
Nov 4, 20236 min read


The Pause
WOVEN has spent the last few months in a period of reflection, finding moments of stillness as well as inward-focused generative work. We...

River Aaland
Aug 26, 20233 min read


Grief: I see you.
Grieving is perhaps one of the most universal of human experiences. To be alive in the world is to know loss at some point in our...

River Aaland
Jan 15, 20233 min read


Sowing Song
Singing is woven into our humanity–voice can be considered our first instrument, the music and melodies of our primal being. In...

River Aaland
Nov 9, 20222 min read


Suppression & Expression
Woven has been in a place of slowing down and embracing stillness and reflection during this end-of-summer changing of the seasons. We...

River Aaland
Sep 30, 20223 min read


Sacred Dance May 2022
The word “sacred” can evoke many meanings and feelings when we hear it. For some it links to traditional understandings of religion and...

River Aaland
May 11, 20222 min read


TransFORMation
Lane Community College selected WOVEN to design and install an addiction recovery room within the new Health and Wellness Center.

River Aaland
Feb 18, 20222 min read


Are you Psyched Out?
What is transformation and what role do plants play?

River Aaland
Jan 24, 20222 min read


Trans-formation
As we look forward to the screening of the next film in WOVEN’s festival, Disclosure, we remain immersed in and curious about the theme...

River Aaland
Dec 7, 20212 min read


WOVEN'S Premiere Film Festival
At the heart of WOVEN’s purpose is the desire to provide experiences that support individual transformation, which we believe is...

River Aaland
Nov 2, 20213 min read


Knowing and Knowledge
There is knowing, and there is knowledge. Knowing is something we are born with, a verb, beyond the mind, embodied, remembered. As we...

River Aaland
Oct 1, 20212 min read


Wings of Wisdom
In our last post, we introduced you to one of WOVEN’s foundational principles: embodiment. Another core principle is something we call...

River Aaland
Sep 5, 20212 min read


Welcome friends, to WOVEN.
Whether you’ve looked at our website or heard about us from a friend, we hope you’ve begun to be curious and even inspired by what we’re...

River Aaland
Aug 19, 20212 min read
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