The Well of Aṣẹ: Tending the Inner Voice
What does your inner voice sound like when you slow down enough to hear it?
Our 2026 Gathering theme, "Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times," invites us to explore the practices that resource us when we find ourselves in the space between what was and what is becoming. This month, we are honored to welcome Tiffany Curtis Weeks, who will guide us into an Afro-indigenous practice of returning to source — what she calls the Well of Aṣẹ.
Tiffany will weave together Yoruba creation story, quiet reflection, and gentle movement — opening a path for each of us to attune to the well of life that has flowed through us since our beginning.
In the Yoruba tradition, Aṣẹ names the divine power that animates all things — the life force coursing through us, beneath us, and beyond us. To draw from the well of Aṣẹ is to come back into relationship with that source, to remember our essence before bodily form, and to listen for the inner voice of divine guidance.
We will reflect, journal briefly, and gather in small and large groups. This is an embodied practice as much as a contemplative one — an invitation to leave with a more resonant connection to your intuitive self.
A few simple preparations will help you arrive ready:
Find a quiet space where you can move freely and safely
Wear comfortable clothing
Bring a journal, a pen, and an object of personal meaning to contribute to our virtual communal altar
All bodies, beings, and levels of experience are warmly welcomed.
Tiffany Curtis Weeks (they/she) is a community architect, cultural strategist, contemplative teacher, and certified coach rooted in Lenapehoking (New York City). As a daughter of Liberia and a weaver of traditions, her work lives at the intersection of spiritual inquiry, social healing, and the wisdom of the natural world. Over 16 years, her dialogic programs for justice and leadership development have reached more than 20,000 people across the United States and East Africa. Her contemplative path — threading African-indigenous, Christian, Daoist, Dharmic, and Yogic wisdom traditions — began as a doorway through grief and opened into the kinship work she now creates for the world. She is the founder of Indwell Collaborative.