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The 9 Ways Around the Well
A Practice Toward
Wholeness

Creativity is not something you do.

It is a source you listen to.

Your life begins to move from the Well within you.

There is a Well within you.
A living source of wisdom, creativity, memory, feeling, and soul.
The 9 Ways guide you gently back to what is already whole.

[ Begin at the Well ]

Welcome Seekers and Creators

When you stop searching outside yourself, something ancient begins to organize within you.

The 9 Ways Around the Well is a sacred practice of return. A way of walking back into relationship with the source within you until your life begins to move from it.

This is not a path of fixing.
It is a path of remembering.

The circle remembers the way.

What This Is

The 9 Ways Around the Well is a practice of walking back into your wholeness..

You move through living doorways of remembrance: intention, body, movement, breath, sound, story, expression, ritual, and living in ceremony. Each Way opens a different language within you. Each Way restores a different thread of wholeness.

Together they form a circle.
A field that holds everything.
A place where nothing is missing.

The Experience

You do not learn the Well.
You enter it.

You arrive in your body.
You listen to your breath.
You allow movement, sound, image, and inner symbol to speak.
You follow the quiet intelligence that begins to reveal itself.

Insight does not come from effort here.
It rises naturally when you listen.

You begin to feel what is ready to move, what is ready to be seen, and what is ready to be lived.

The Invitation

You are not asked to become anything.

You are invited to remember.
To trust what lives within you.
To walk in rhythm with your own knowing.
To recognize that you are already part of a greater field of life moving through you.

As you walk these Ways, something simple and profound returns:

You are an Oracle.

[ Walk the Nine Ways ]

The Nine Ways

Intention · Meditation · Invocation
You arrive. You listen. You open.

Body · Our Miracle Temple
You inhabit and celebrate your living sacred ground.

Movement · Freeing Energy
You allow life to move through you.

Breath · The Bridge
You reconnect to the wisdom of the whole.

Sound · Song · You Are Vibration
You remember your unique expression.

Story · Your Myth
You listen to and offer the mythical story that lives beneath the surface of your life.

Expression · Creation
You bring your inner symbol, vision, and dream into form.

Ritual · Integration
You anchor your experience and participate consciously in creation.

Living in Ceremony · Walking in Beauty
You live what you know. Life becomes your practice.

How This Work Is Offered

This work is offered in different forms, each opening a different depth of the same Well:

A 2-hour introduction
A 1-day immersion
A series of 4-hour workshops
A 9-week in-person journey
A 9-day online immersion
Private sessions and group circles

Closing Field

Walk gently.

Everything you are seeking is already within the circle of your being.

The Well is not something you find.
It is something you remember.

The circle remembers the way.

Creative Warrior Collective Timeline

A journey of awakening, creation, and community rooted in the Wheel.

April 2025 – Seeding the Vision

  • The Creative Warrior Collective (CWC) is born from Santjes’s vision at the Well.

  • Weekly meetings begin with founding members.

  • The idea forms: a 12-month journey for young people (18–26) to become Creative Warriors and Earth Keepers.

  • Core elements include seasonal retreats, a circular planning format, and personal initiation ceremonies.

  • Plans begin for the first gathering in June and a trial run in October

Late April 2025 – Foundation Building

  • Kit creates the Miro board under Wellwork to hold curriculum and visions.

  • Logo ideas circulate—branches, roots, arrows, seedling hands.

  • Outreach begins to potential board members, creatives, and collaborators.

  • Legal and logistical steps are outlined: nonprofit filing, trademark research, insurance estimates

May 2025 – Deepening the Container

  • Mycelium Trust is conceived—a 52-week visual dialogue between five Creative Warriors.

  • Bylaws are drafted, EIN and nonprofit application steps prepared.

  • Ritual planning for June 7–8 takes shape: altar building, fire circles, mud, movement, and ceremony.

  • Guiding questions emerge:

    • How do I show up as a warrior in my life?

    • What gifts am I carrying forward?

    • How can I impact others?

June – First Gathering: The Root Sangha, Hingham

  • Participants move through the Wheel—each direction held by a different guide:

  • Northeast: Opening with Santjes

  • East: Movement and breath with Nick

  • South: Nature walk with Gerry

  • West: Altar of Creation in noble silence with Ally

  • North: Constellation, mystery, and ancestral connection with Kit

  • Ceremony includes fire rituals, grass-cutting to release old patterns, and shared blessings.

  • Each warrior is seen, witnessed, and initiated

Mid-June 2025 – Integration & Incubation

  • Collective reflects: “We must trust the process.”

  • Santjes names the space a playground for learning and courage.

  • The group moves into the Incubation Period, allowing insights to settle.

  • Next steps begin to take form quietly—through connection, not rush.

Late June to July 2025 – Grounding the Foundation

  • Dates explored for reconnecting: June 28–29 or July 19–20.

  • Continued legal and design efforts: logo development, trademark research, nonprofit paperwork submission.

  • Planning continues for the October Nantucket retreat and Young Warriors program

Summer 2025 – A Conscious Pause

  • The Collective takes a break from weekly Zoom calls, resuming August 6.

  • Nick begins drafting CWC’s public description for donors and stakeholders.

  • Vision clarified: build the workshops and curriculum before seeking an Executive Director.

  • Conversations stay rooted in values, reflection, and community pacing.

October 2025

  • Meeting at the Magical Moon Farm

  • Curriculum Planning

  • Building our online presence

  • Planning Budgeting

Why the Creative Warrior Collective?

This is not just a program.

It’s a living experiment in leadership, creativity, healing, and Earth honoring.

We are cultivating future leaders by weaving together ancient ways, creative practice, and community process.
 

With your support, the Creative Warrior Collective is becoming a space where young people are seen, held, and initiated into a new way of leading—from the inside out.

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