Our Work

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Our Work *

Purpose Statement

Ceiba Futures exists to seed emergent, liberatory worlds.

Rooted in Maya cosmology, ancestral memory, and weaving constellations, we work in kinship with artists, culture bearers, and community leaders to nourish practices of healing, transformation, and creative resistance. We believe futures are not distant destinations, but present possibilities woven through relationships, ritual, and reimagination.

Vision

We envision a world where ancestral technologies guide present action, and where cultural, ecological, and spiritual intelligence are honored as vital forms of knowledge.


A world where Indigenous, Black, queer, and diasporic communities lead with joy, reciprocity, and imagination to co-create life-affirming systems.

A world where consulting and artist residencies are not extractive, but ceremonial—where every offering is a weaving of story, strategy, and spirit.

Ways We Move*

Ceiba Futures offers consulting, curriculum design, and healing-centered programming to support artists, cultural workers, and organizations building toward liberatory futures. Through creative facilitation, weaving constellations, and collaborative design rooted in Maya cosmology, we:

  • Strategize with soul — braiding story, equity, and community wisdom

  • Hold space for healing — centering joy, ceremony, and ancestral grounding

  • Build emergent structures — supporting values-aligned, culturally-rooted systems and programs

  • Cultivate global kinship — bridging diasporic and Indigenous communities across geographies through mutual learning and creative exchange

Our work comes to life through offerings like Chee’ Jay – Casa Ceiba – Lifetree Haven, a healing-centered cultural experience in Santiago Atitlán that invites artists and movement kin to reconnect with ancestral roots, engage in reciprocal learning with Maya cultural practitioners, and practice futures rooted in care, place, and transformation.

Core Commitments

Ceiba Futures is guided by the following commitments, each a thread in the constellation we are weaving

  • We replace extractive frameworks of “strategy” with a poetic and relational practice. Weaving constellations means connecting cultural threads into living maps that guide healing, community, and futurity. We draw from earthbound and celestial traditions—textile, cosmological, and ceremonial—to hold complexity with care.

  • We honor ancestral lineages, Indigenous cosmologies, and ways of knowing that exist outside colonial time. Every offering is an act of remembering—and of remembering ourselves back into a sacred whole.

  • We move through relationship, not transaction. Guided by Toj (sacred reciprocity), we listen, offer, and receive in mutual exchange. We believe the process is as sacred as the outcome.

  • Joy is a compass, a medicine, a creative force. We uplift joy as a tool for world-building and collective nourishment.

  • We approach all work as sacred work. We hold space for grief, transition, and transformation, centering healing as a form of resistance and a precondition for liberation.

  • We draw from textile traditions to imagine design as weaving—flexible, iterative, and interconnected. We build frameworks that breathe, adapt, and hold the integrity of the communities they serve.

  • We champion the leadership and brilliance of Indigenous, Black, queer, and diasporic artists and cultural practitioners. Our work protects creative autonomy while nurturing shared learning across movements, geographies, and lineages.

* Why “Ways We Move”?
We choose not to use the word mission due to its associations with colonization, forced Christian conversion, and the erasure of Indigenous lifeways. Instead, “Ways We Move” reflects our belief that purpose is not a static declaration, but a living, relational practice. It honors movement as ceremony, emergence, and choice—guided by ancestral memory, reciprocity, and constellations of care.