Cohorts hosted by Center for Ethical Land Transition
The Center for Ethical Land Transition has taken the experience and learnings from our many years of technical and relational accompaniment to deepen the ways we offer direct support. In 2027, our offerings include multiple cohort-based learning journeys. Through our ongoing work alongside people navigating land reunion and relinquishment, we have witnessed what it takes to develop embodied, collective, place-based values — and how much of this work is strengthened when it happens in relationship with others. Our cohorts are born from this experience: creating spaces where direct accompaniment can happen in community, where learning and remembering with the Land can be shared, and where relationships can grow across projects, places, and movements. As we continue to confront and deconstruct oppressive systems, we are learning that we do not have to navigate their complexities alone; we can build capacity, practice new ways of being in relationship, and find our way forward together.
Incubation Cohort
California Indigenous Cohort: Seeding Reunion
California Indigenous Cohort: Expanding Reunion
Centering Black, Indigenous, migrant, and diasporic land stewards of color, Incubation is a space to pause, deepen, and regenerate our relationships with Land, community, and one another while tending the relational systems of care, governance, and stewardship that can sustain sanctuaries across generations.
For California tribal groups working toward the return of their ancestral lands, this cohort offers a community-held pathway through the financial, legal, governance, cultural, relational, and stewardship work of bringing land home.
For California tribal groups who have recently returned to the stewardship of ancestral lands, this cohort offers a community-held space to build capacity, navigate new responsibilities, and strengthen the resources, relationships, and practices that will sustain the work for generations to come.
Land Doula Cohort
Since May 2025, our first pilot learning cohort has brought together four Indigenous women-led land projects to build the structures, relationships, and emerging forms of governance needed to carry deeply held visions for Land and community across generations.
Relinquishment Cohort
This cohort is for title holders and wealth holders to explore relinquishment as a path toward right relationship, repair, and a deeper sense of responsibility to Land, community, and future generations.