Brooklyn and Emma are the founders and stewards of The Sacred Village: a living, evolving ecosystem devoted to community, belonging, and legacy-building in a fractured world.

They are multidimensional leaders and mentors known for their grounded presence, emotional fluency, and capacity to hold the full spectrum of human experience with integrity. They meet women in the depths of grief, shadow, and complexity, and also call women into the remembering of their eternal nature and power. Their work is rooted in the belief that healing, leadership, and culture are restored through honest relationship, communal witnessing, and embodied responsibility.

Together, Brooklyn and Emma bring decades of combined experience in mentoring women, trauma-literate facilitation, ceremonial leadership, creative entrepreneurship, event production, and large-scale community building. They have guided thousands of women through festivals, rites of passage, grief ceremonies, retreats, and long-term mentorship, creating spaces that cultivate lasting transformation both personally and collectively.

Their union is a central part of their medicine. As partners in life and work, they lead from lived relationship. This relational field is what many experience as magnetic, grounded, coherent, and real.

At the heart of their work is a commitment to building cultures of belonging where women are resourced and legacy is shaped through care, courage, and continuity across generations.

As The Sacred Village enters its fourth expression, Brooklyn and Emma remain deeply involved in every layer of the festival, standing for a culture where no one is left behind, where sisters rest on one another’s wings and touch new heights of love and truth together.

Wild Edge: Grief Ceremony

Wild Edge serves as a cornerstone of The Sacred Village - a living prayer woven into the very heart of the festival field. Inspired by the lineage and teachings of Francis Weller’s 5 Gates of Grief and the legacy of Sobonfu, Malidoma Some and the West Dagara tradition, this ceremonial space invites women into a communal relationship with sorrow as a sacred, ancient, and necessary rite of belonging.

This is not a ceremony of forced catharsis or emotional discharge. Rather, Wild Edge is an elemental prayer - a slow, reverent offering of grief to the fire, the earth, and the circle of witnesses. Women are invited to safely and gently titrate into their emotional bodies, cultivating the capacity to be with what is alive in their systems and hearts, while arriving more deeply at their own inner axis of repair, coherence, and wholeness.

Within this field, grief may move as the retrieval of exiled parts, the softening of self-judgment, the release of ancestral and collective burdens, the emergence of forgiveness, or a deepened trust in life as it is — in all of its paradoxical beauty. Often, it is simply the remembering of one’s own capacity to stay present with sorrow without collapsing or bypassing.

Wild Edge lives as a practice of communal witnessing - an ancient technology of healing where women are held in their agency, self-resourcing, and co-regulation. As grief is remembered not only as a personal relationship but a collective one, the field becomes a place of reciprocity unification of hearts.

This ceremony has taken many forms over the years, growing and maturing with the wider community mission. It remains a central hearth of Sacred Village - a place where grief and gratitude merge; where being seen is a sacrament of belonging.