Becoming Kin: A Campfire Series
There are some conversations best held beside a fire.
Some questions live more easily in the body than in the mind.
Some stories only rise when the land is quiet enough to hear them.
This series is for those sitting with grief, ancestry, disconnection, or the longing to live in deeper relationship, with land, with history, with each other.
We’ll move through Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, not just reading, but practicing. Not just thinking, but listening. Each month, we’ll gather in a different part of Huron County and let the season guide us. Through traditional skills, reflection, shared food, and firelight, we’ll explore what it means to repair relationship, within and beyond ourselves.
As the light shifts and the weather turns, we’ll shift too, adjusting our rhythms and following the season toward something quieter, closer, more rooted.
You don’t need to be a fast reader or a seasoned crafter. You don’t need to have the right words. Just come as you are, curious, open, and ready to sit with what’s real.
A Tending Thresholds offering
Four Thursday evenings: July 31, August 21, September 18, October 16
Huron County-based (locations vary)
Sliding scale: $220–$320 for the full series
Optional book add-on: $25
Payment plans available.
There are some conversations best held beside a fire.
Some questions live more easily in the body than in the mind.
Some stories only rise when the land is quiet enough to hear them.
This series is for those sitting with grief, ancestry, disconnection, or the longing to live in deeper relationship, with land, with history, with each other.
We’ll move through Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, not just reading, but practicing. Not just thinking, but listening. Each month, we’ll gather in a different part of Huron County and let the season guide us. Through traditional skills, reflection, shared food, and firelight, we’ll explore what it means to repair relationship, within and beyond ourselves.
As the light shifts and the weather turns, we’ll shift too, adjusting our rhythms and following the season toward something quieter, closer, more rooted.
You don’t need to be a fast reader or a seasoned crafter. You don’t need to have the right words. Just come as you are, curious, open, and ready to sit with what’s real.
A Tending Thresholds offering
Four Thursday evenings: July 31, August 21, September 18, October 16
Huron County-based (locations vary)
Sliding scale: $220–$320 for the full series
Optional book add-on: $25
Payment plans available.
There are some conversations best held beside a fire.
Some questions live more easily in the body than in the mind.
Some stories only rise when the land is quiet enough to hear them.
This series is for those sitting with grief, ancestry, disconnection, or the longing to live in deeper relationship, with land, with history, with each other.
We’ll move through Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, not just reading, but practicing. Not just thinking, but listening. Each month, we’ll gather in a different part of Huron County and let the season guide us. Through traditional skills, reflection, shared food, and firelight, we’ll explore what it means to repair relationship, within and beyond ourselves.
As the light shifts and the weather turns, we’ll shift too, adjusting our rhythms and following the season toward something quieter, closer, more rooted.
You don’t need to be a fast reader or a seasoned crafter. You don’t need to have the right words. Just come as you are, curious, open, and ready to sit with what’s real.
A Tending Thresholds offering
Four Thursday evenings: July 31, August 21, September 18, October 16
Huron County-based (locations vary)
Sliding scale: $220–$320 for the full series
Optional book add-on: $25
Payment plans available.
Your registration includes:
Four in-person gatherings (approx. 2.5 hours each)
Two chapters of Becoming Kin per session
A land-based or traditional skill each time
Grounding or mental health practice
Guest speakers in August and September
A shared meal to close the circle in October
All materials and use of private land across Huron County
A printed reflection guide to carry with you
Session 1: Art & Ancestry
Thursday, July 31 — 6:30 to 9:00 PM
Location: Seeds Rooted Youth Camp (just outside Bayfield)
We’ll begin the series by arriving slowly, settling in with a quiet sit spot to listen and observe the land around us. This is a time to tune in — not to clear the mind, but to notice what’s already present.
From there, we’ll move into creating our own hand-built clay burn bowls, shaped with care and intention. We'll close the evening with a burn bowl ritual around the fire, releasing what no longer needs to be carried as we begin this shared journey.
Theme: Honouring where we come from and what we’re ready to release
Book Chapters: 1 & 2 of Becoming Kin
Practices: Sit spot, burn bowl making, fire ritual
What to Bring: Something small and natural that represents where you come from (a rock, seed, feather, or other found object), a chair, and anything else you may need to keep yourself comfortable.
Session 2: Threads & Stories
Thursday, August 21 — 6:30 to 9:00 PM
Location: The Riverbend, Benmiller, ON
In this session, we’ll work with our hands and our stories. With guidance from Twist of Fate Creations, you’ll learn how to use a drop spindle, spinning fibres drawn from both domestic and wild sources: sheep’s wool and milkweed silk collected from my own garden.
We’ll begin with a sit spot practice along the riverbank or under the trees, with different prompts and options to support your time, journaling, sensory awareness, sketching, quiet breathwork, or simply being. You’ll be invited to choose what feels supportive for you in the moment.
As we spin together, we’ll reflect on the stories that have shaped us, ancestral, cultural, personal, and consider which threads we want to carry forward, and which we’re ready to lay down.
Theme: Identity, inheritance, and the stories we carry
Book Chapters: 5 & 6 of Becoming Kin
Practices: Sit spot, drop spindle spinning, personal storytelling, slow reflection
Guest Guide: Twist of Fate Creations
What to Bring: Comfortable clothes for sitting and working with your hands; a notebook if you’d like to write or sketch during your sit spot, a chair, and anything else you may need to keep yourself comfortable. You’ll go home with your own spun fibre.
Session 3: Kinship & Plant Relations
Thursday, September 18 — 6:00 to 8:30 PM
Location: The Riverbend, Benmiller, ON
With guidance from Folkcraft Herbs, we’ll begin this session with a medicinal plant walk, noticing the plants that grow wild around us and learning about their healing properties, cultural history, and quiet wisdom. You’ll then create your own custom tea blend, which we’ll brew and share together as the evening continues.
We’ll also explore a walking meditation practice, a way of tuning in to our breath and steps as a form of grounding and quiet presence.
This session invites reflection on what it means to belong, to land, to body, and to a wider web of living kin.
Theme: Belonging, relationship, and plant connection
Book Chapters: 5 & 6 of Becoming Kin
Practices: Medicinal plant walk, tea-making, walking meditation
Guest Guide: Folkcraft Herbs
What to Bring: A mug, walking shoes, a chair, and anything else you may need to keep yourself comfortable. You’ll go home with your own tea blend.
Session 4: Nourishment & Reciprocity
Thursday, October 16 — 5:30 to 8:00 PM
Location: Happy Buddha Farm (just outside Clinton, ON)
Our final gathering will be rooted in slowness, care, and shared nourishment. We’ll arrive early to begin preparing and cooking a simple meal over the fire, working together with intention. As the sun sets, we’ll eat and reflect on what we’ve moved through over these four months — conversations, practices, stories, and connections.
Throughout the evening, participants will take turns tending the fire as a mindfulness practice, a quiet invitation to be present with the flame, with the group, and with yourself.
We’ll close with a guided meditation and a quiet circle, allowing space for gratitude, release, and whatever needs to be spoken or witnessed.
Theme: Memory, community, and closing with care
Book Chapters: 7 & 8 of Becoming Kin
Practices: Fire-tending, shared meal, guided meditation, closing ritual
What to Bring: A bowl and spoon, warm layers, a chair, and anything else you may need to keep yourself comfortable, and (if you feel called) a few words or a small offering for the final circle
