September 3, 2025 4:00 PM UTC
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker.
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Born and based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika, Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner researching and translating indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art, and honey.
Learn moreWangũi wa Kamonji and Pat McCabe invite us to explore rivers as relations, gesturing towards places where ‘unlikely allies’ emerge as water flows into new and strange fields, connecting diverse practices and ideas.
Rivers of Relating: With Wangũi wa Kamonji and Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining)
Rivers are sites of relation. Always in motion, they shape and are shaped by the landscapes they touch; moving through ecosystems, nourishing life, and carrying stories. They are pathways of healing and renewal, yet they also have the power to erode, dissolve, and disrupt the calcified myths of modernity: myths of separation, ownership, property, and control.
In the third and final webinar of this series, we turn towards the gentle and fierce strength of rivers, learning from their capacity to move with and within relational flows. What might it mean to let water teach us how to live differently, not only in harmony with the sacred, ancestral wisdom we inherit, but also in direct engagement with the hardened narratives of late-stage capitalism and modernity?
Wangũi wa Kamonji and Pat McCabe invite us to explore rivers as relations, gesturing towards places where ‘unlikely allies’ emerge as water flows into new and strange fields, connecting diverse practices and ideas.
There is no escaping relation - how might we learn to relate differently, not just to the sacred, ancestral wisdom that we inherit, but also to the hardened myths of late-stage capitalism and modernity? How might we adopt a posture of receiving the paradoxical lessons of water, tending to our part as a portion of the whole?
This webinar is the third in a three-part series on rivers, hosted with ten (The Emergence Network)
Rivers flow, shape landscapes, and sustain ecosystems. They have shaped civilizations, serving as cradles of culture, trade routes, and sources of spiritual significance. Across time, rivers have been sites of power struggles, symbols of freedom and migration, and spaces of ritual and renewal. Yet, in a world shaped by human-centered ways of knowing, rivers—both as physical entities and as metaphors—are often reduced to mere resources, named, owned, and controlled. How might we reimagine power, freedom, and ritual through the wisdom of rivers? How can we learn from their movement, fluidity, and resistance? What more opens up when we move away from the way rivers have been framed and understood from a perspective steeped in modernity?
Inspired by Dilip da Cunha’s book, The Invention of Rivers, which invites us to consider that “to 'see' a river as delineated by a line parsing water from land is a choice about how to see,” we offer this series of conversations as an opportunity to “see” the concepts of power, freedom and ritual through other eyes. Rivers of Becoming is a three-part interactive webinar series that brings together thought leaders, wisdom-keepers, and practitioners to offer participants potentially revelatory insights emerging from their diverse worldviews and life experiences. Hosted by advaya and ten (The Emergence Network), this series invites us to shift our perspectives, weaving together ideas and embodied practices.
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker.
Learn morePat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human. Her primary work at the moment is: the reconciliation between the masculine and feminine, Men's Nation and Women's Nation; remembering, recreating or creating anew a narrative for the Sacred Masculine; addressing the Archetypal Wounding that occurred in our misunderstanding and abuse of technology in prayer, ceremony and science.
Born and based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika, Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner researching and translating indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art, and honey.
Learn moreBorn and based in Ongata Rongai, East Afrika, Wangũi wa Kamonji is a regeneration practitioner researching and translating indigenous Afrikan knowledges into experiential processes, art, and honey. She has been following an ancestral invitation to rethink and reimagine everything from indigenous Afrikan ontologies, and extends this invitation to others through fromtheroots, an ecoversity based in East Afrika and supporting individuals’ and communities’ transitions from coloniality to the pluriverse through transformational training, coaching and practice accompaniment. Weaving research using academic and indigenous methods; storytelling in written and oral forms; traditional Afrikan dance and movement practice; ancestral connection, processwork, and nervous system relation, fromtheroots provides rooted embodied tools for us to decolonise and reindigenise. Her work is published on Decolonial Passage, Open Global Rights, Africa is a Country, Transition Network among others. She is also related to planetary networks such as the Ecoversities Alliance and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA). Wangũi loves reading, laughing, drinking tea and dancing (sometimes all at once).