In the flow of rupture | August
On Monday August 11, Sherri Mitchell—a long-time friend of CUHF—offered a reflection to open the fourth session of our 2025 Council series, In the flow of rupture.
Initially launched over two sessions in February/March 2025 as On the rim of rupture, In the flow of rupture offers ongoing opportunities for reflection among CUHF community members in the wake of upheaval created by the current U.S. administration. In sessions meeting every six weeks (with optional pop-up sessions in-between), we ask:
What is happening, and how do we stay present, compassionate, grounded and in community amidst the convulsions? Can we together expand our insight and perspective, while being realistic, agile, skillful and of service?
This recording is among the resources CUHF has shared to support the In the flow of rupture Councils in 2025. See the homepage of our site for more.
About the speaker
Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset
Sherri is an Indigenous author, attorney, and spiritual teacher from the Penobscot Nation. Her family is Bear Clan from the Penobscot Nation and Crow Clan from the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik.
She is the author of the award-winning book, Sacred Instructions; Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change, which is now available in four languages, and a contributor to more than a dozen anthologies, including the best sellers, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, and My life: Growing Up Native in America.
Sherri is the founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an educational organization that focuses on Indigenous leadership, land rematriation, environmental healing, and kinship building. Sherri was a key member of the development team for the ACE Mandate of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and a co-coordinator of the National BIPOC Climate Dialogue Convenings in the U.S. She serves as a Trustee for the American Indian Institute, sits on both the Global Indigenous Advisory Council and the North American Advisory Council for Nia Tero’s Indigenous Land Guardianship Program and is a board member for the Post Carbon Institute.
The recipient of several human rights and humanitarian awards, Sherri’s portrait is featured in Robert Shetterly’s esteemed series—Americans Who Tell the Truth. She is also the convener of numerous healing gatherings including Healing the Wounds of Turtle Island, a global gathering that has brought together more than fifty-thousand people from six continents, to learn from Indigenous spiritual elders across the globe. This gathering focuses on issues of healing our relationships with one another and Mother Earth. She is a provocative teacher who challenges us to look deeply into the patterns of our own lives and those that surround us.
