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Reunion is built on a simple belief: when we reconnect with nature, we reconnect with ourselves and with one another. Everything we do grows from that truth – healing begins by coming home to nature, to community, and to ourselves.
Heartfire Gatherings
A view from an entrance to Echo Field, where back-country camping gatherings take place between June and September. Gatherers include participants traveling from NYC, alongside a group of mentors, nature enthusiasts, and instructors both traveling from the city and joining from the local Western Catskills community.
When youth are given space to breathe, to gather around firelight, and to feel nature’s embrace, cycles of harm begin to break.
Reunion’s Heartfire Gatherings offers preventative healing before incarceration ever begins, leaving participants with resilience, lasting mentor bonds, and the tools to imagine a hopeful future – reducing the likelihood of offending or reoffending.
Our ancestors knew the importance of imbuing the summertime with sacred meaning. Recently discovered Evidence reveals the first seasonal, multi-cultural gathering to reach back 12,000 years, pre-dating both village settlements and agriculture.
Heartfire gatherings are a homecoming into nature and our past. they are a co-created celebration between typically siloed rural and urban communities.
Our Story
At The Reunion Project we believe that the people of the Western Catskills can transmute// leverage our overflowing community spirit into positive social change and poverty alleviation through heartfelt dialogue that supports empathy and personal growth.
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We do not have to agree on our answers to foster positive change, but we do need to talk them.
What will your life look like in ten years?
What will the Western Catskills look like in ten years?
