COME TOGETHER

a long covid peer support group

join in queer long covid community for mutual support, skill & infosharing, and relationship weaving!

we come together to share skills and information on navigating long covid.  over the course of three months, we will gather to process our experiences, share what we have learned, try new things, and be together. we will talk herbs, food, emotional support practices, embodiment practices, creativity, grief & rage, structural shifts, lists and other logistical supports, surviving under capitalism and more.

come with your feelings and your bodies truth. come with your lived experience. come to hear the experiences of others. come to share what you know about your own wise body, and come ready to learn from the wisdom of others. come to find similarities and resonance, differences in individual experiences, and mutual respect throughout.

let this group be an anchor. let the group support you in these times of intense stress. let the knowing that you are not alone in this tend some of the rough edges. long covid is intense on its own; add in a govt supported culture of covid denial and it becomes even more fraught. we come together to remember that we don’t have to do it all alone; we support each other reciprocally when gathering around shared emotional experiences. let yourself be nourished as you also contribute to a wider web of community nourishment.

come as you are. you are welcome here. we are in this together.

LOGISTICS

This program will run from Jan – March 2025. We will meet weekly via Zoom, and connect in a digital community hub!

Two cohorts are available for signup, depending on your time zone. You can select your choice using the buttons below.

          COHORT 1: We will gather WEEKLY on Mondays from 6-7:30pm ET – Jan

          COHORT 2: We will gather WEEKLY on Tuesdays from 3-4:30pm ET – Jan

This three month program of weekly meetings will take place over Zoom. We will alternative between skill share calls (2x/month) and community processing calls (2x/month).  On the fifth week of Jan, we will rest!

Skill share calls (2x/month) will be recorded; community processing calls will not be recorded.

ACCESS

These calls will take place in English.

There will be closed captioning available for all zoom calls.

Recordings of the biweekly info & skill sharing meetings will be recorded for you to keep.

This will be an intimate space. This will be a gentle and lovingly held container.

Folks are welcome to be on or off screen, call in from bed or couch or floor; tending our bodies is the priority!

You are welcome to participate or not as they feel called, and are free to utilize the unmute or chat functions to contribute.

Attending all sessions is encouraged but not required.

Space is limited to 15 people for intimacy & connection.

The Shape of Our Time Together

Month 1 – Rest

The first thing people tell you you need to do if you have Long Covid is rest, so we will start here. What is rest? What is restful to each of us? How do we access rest while living under systemic oppression and late stage capitalism? How can we weave in rest into our lives, daily schedules, etc?

Month 2 – Nourishment

How can we deeply nourish our holy bodies? How do we access nourishment? What is nourishing to each of us? We will explore refilling our cups, accessing necessary resource, refilling depleted stores and trying on patterns & practices to support us in this.

Month 3 – Resilience

How can we deepen into our resilience as we live in this world? How do we support our whole beings resilience, our hearts and bodies and spirits? What systems, structures, habits, etc have we experimented with and want to take with us forward? What community webs and relational building will support our resiliency?

SOLIDARITY ACCESS:

Need a discounted solidarity rate to be able to participate? We have a few solidarity spots available for $120 (or 40/month). You are welcome to use the code SOLIDARITY40 at checkout. 

These are limited in number, so please only use them if you are unable to access the course otherwise – not because of preference to pay a lower cost or a fear of future scarcity. Thank you for participating thoughtfully in the sliding scale system!

Who is holding this space?

This offering is facilitated by Max and rowan. they are long time collaborators and friends.

about rowan

rowan is a queer trans person of western euro settler lineage living on unceded Abenaki land in so called northeast vermont. They are an herbalist, teacher, writer, and somatic bodyworker. rowan is a bookworm, avid baker, lover of song, ex-aerialist, and lifelong learner. through their biz of hawthorn and yew, rowan offers healing spaces for queers, as well as supporting folks of settler descent on Turtle Island/N America to reconnect to ancestral lineage, reweave plant kin connection and deepen into relations with the holy wild. They got long covid in august 2020, had their life change wholly, and have been living with it ever since. rowan is passionate about building spaces to nourish queer healing & aliveness as we build a more just world.

Questions and Answers

WILL THIS BE VERY INTENSE?

• This will be a very gentle container in which intense feelings will potentially be swirling.
• All practices will be invitational (meaning you can feel into if something feels supportive and appropriate for you)
• We will be exploring our personal grief and rage, so we can choose how deep to go or how much we want to dive into it at this time, given our capacity; you always have the choice to go at the pace that’s right for you
• Together after touching on our personal experiences, the focus will be on sharing experiences, skills, plant relationships, practices (including embodiment and non-body based), and ritual invitations around tending the grief and rage that lives within us all
• This will be a firmly held facilitated container so that the intention for the offering remains on course
• We will take breaks and practice titration!
• Throughout you will be invited to care for yourself, participate as is appropriate, and practice self-responsibility

WHO IS THIS FOR?

• any queer or trans person seeking community and support for their long-covid
• queer people with lived experience of long covid
• people who like to work with plants, embodied practice and communal dialogue for justice and healing
• folks seeking skills and relationships to bolster their existing practices and habits
• folks excited to share what has worked for them with others who could benefit
• folks who enjoy non-hierarchical learning environments, where learning and wisdom flows in all directions
• folks looking for a gentle engagement with deep, complex and potent topics of covid, disability, albism, anticapitalism, grief & rage, relational rupture due to covid, medical neglect, and more.

Note: This is not intended to replace professional support. As always, Max and I suggest layered networks of support; this is merely one offering to add to the wider web of your care.

HOW DO I JOIN?

Sign up using the link below!

Note: Space is limited for intimacy and connection.