Our Mission & Vision
Four Waters Rising is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building healthier, more connected communities through culturally rooted wellness, creative expression, education, and intergenerational connection.
We curate activating spaces where people can gather to reflect, learn, create, and build meaningful relationships. Through healing circles, workshops, community events, and creative experiences, we celebrate cultural wisdom and identity, strengthen community and intergenerational connection, and support well-being.
Our vision centers wellness equity by expanding access to holistic and culturally responsive programs, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically underserved communities. We believe that when people have opportunities to connect with themselves, one another, and their wisdom/creative process, communities become stronger, more resilient, and better equipped to shape their future.
Working alongside community organizations, educational institutions, artists, practitioners, and local leaders, Four Waters Rising is cultivating spaces where everyone can belong, grow, and rise together.
Our Basic Tenets
We honor the knowledge and cultivated or reimagined traditions passed down through generations.
We meet communities and ourselves where we are with inclusion, curiosity, and cultural respect.
We support the restoration, growth, and dimensions of self and voice through healing pathways.
We value shared wellness, mutual aid, community dialogue, and relationships.
We use the creative arts, multi-dimensional intelligence, rituals, circles, and movement as sacred tools for transformation and pathways to healing, prosperity, self-expression, and clarity.

