VALUES, CULTURE

and Community CARE

VALUES, Culture

AND COMMUNITY CARE

Cultural Safety and Integrity at EARTH Daughters

At Earth Daughters, we are devoted to creating spaces that feel culturally respectful, inclusive, and grounded in reciprocity. As a land-based gathering, we honour the original peoples of this territory and approach our work with humility, care, and responsibility.

We move slowly and intentionally guided by listening, conversation, and relationship to ensure the festival grows in alignment with Indigenous protocol, land stewardship, and community wellbeing.

Our current commitments include actively seeking to establish connections with local Ktunaxa Nations, cultural advisors, and Knowledge Keepers who support us in walking in a good way. We welcome feedback and reflections on how we are doing. 

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Festival Attendee Guidelines

To create a festival that embodies cultural safety, integrity, and our core values, we invite all attendees to honor the following guidelines:

  1. Engage with Respect and Curiosity
    Approach all experiences, ceremonies, and teachings with humility, curiosity, and an open heart. Listen deeply, ask questions respectfully, and honor the lineage and cultural origins of practices shared.

  2. Honor Lineages and Cultural Integrity
    Acknowledge the roots of the teachings, and recognize that access does not equal ownership. Avoid cultural appropriation in any form, and prioritize integrity, acknowledgement, and respect in all participation.

  3. Support Inclusion and Womanhood
    We understand Womanhood to be both a cultural and biological experience. We celebrate, explore, and educate about the biological roles and rhythms inherent to being female - that we then embody in our expression of Womanhood.  We honor the diversity of women from different backgrounds, ancestries, and lived experiences, and invite all participants to engage with curiosity, respect, and openness. Participation should reflect the culturally rich, and globally connected nature of the festival, creating a space where women from all walks of life feel seen, valued, and fully supported in their embodiment and expression of Womanhood.

  4. Practice Reciprocity and Stewardship
    Give back to the land, community, and lineage. Treat the festival site with care, dispose of waste responsibly, and support sustainable, regenerative practices.

  5. Cultivate Sisterhood
    Foster belonging, authentic connection, and mutual support. Turn toward one another with kindness, even when experiences are challenging. Leave competition and comparison behind.

  6. Engage with Creativity and Legacy
    Bring your creative expression into the festival, and contribute to the cultural, spiritual, and ecological legacy that nourishes future generations.

  7. Honour Personal Sovereignty
    Respect your own boundaries and the boundaries of others. Each attendee is responsible for their choices, participation, and engagement within the festival.

  8. Commit to Cultural Safety
    Follow festival policies, respect facilitators and guides, and honour spaces designated for ceremony, program, and specific groups (such as Young Maidens). Share feedback and reflections to help us continue learning and growing.

  9. Be Mindful of Safety
    Prioritize physical, emotional, and cultural safety. Be aware of your environment, store food responsibly (bear-safe for campers), and follow guidance from staff and cultural advisors.

  10. Acknowledge Learning and Accountability
    Mistakes may happen. We commit to repair, accountability, and meaningful change, and invite attendees to engage with the same openness to growth.

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Values

Reciprocity - We walk in relationship with the Earth, giving back as much as we receive. Every gathering, project, and offering is an act of gratitude, a living exchange between women, land, and lineage.

Regeneration - We are committed to restoring our wild, creative natures as women and tending our communities and ecosystems.

Reconciliation - We are committed to unlearning extractive and domination-based systems that have shaped modern culture. We acknowledge the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization on Indigenous peoples and lands, and we seek to engage with these realities through education, reflection, accountability, and respect. Earth Daughters approaches reconciliation as an ongoing practice of listening, learning, and cultivating right relationship, rather than a fixed destination or claim of authority.

Sovereignty - We honour the autonomy and inner authority of every woman. Earth Daughters is a place- in spirit and form- where each woman stands rooted in her power, truth, intuition and leadership. She co-creates from a place of embodied power.

Biology - We understand Womanhood to be both a cultural and biological experience. We celebrate, explore, and educate about the biological roles and rhythms inherent to being female - that we then embody in our expression of Womanhood. Our work lies at the intersection of female biology and feminine expression. The experience of living in a female body is central to the festival journey.

Sisterhood - We cultivate belonging through authentic connection and mutual support. Our circles are spaces of remembrance, where competition dissolves, and women rise together as kin. We acknowledge our shadows and projections and commit to turning towards one another, even (and especially) when it feels challenging.

Stewardship -  We hold deep reverence for the lands we gather on and the ancestral lineages that protect them. Stewardship is not symbolic; it’s a practice of tending, protecting and acting in right relationship

Creativity - We are creative by nature and our art, expression, and creative ceremony are vital to culture. Creativity is how we remember who we are, how we heal, educate, and reimagine a more beautiful world together.

Legacy - We place future generations at the center of our visionary work. Earth Daughters exists to plant seeds and grown gardens of cultural, ecological, and spiritual resources that will nourish our daughters and their daughters to come.


These values are provided for transparency and context and are not intended to create eligibility requirements beyond those outlined in the event’s Terms & Conditions.

By purchasing a festival ticket, the participant acknowledges and affirms their understanding of, and alignment with, the values of Earth Daughters Festival. This acknowledgment is intended to support informed participation and shared expectations within the event community.

Honouring Lineages & Cultural Integrity

Many of the practices shared within Earth Daughters; ceremony, dance, movement, storytelling, healing arts come from ancestral traditions held by Indigenous and other BIPOC communities.

To honour these roots:

  • Facilitators are asked to acknowledge the lineages, teachers, and cultural origins of the practices they share.

  • We prioritize offering space to facilitators whose cultures these traditions come from.

  • We recognize that access to a practice does not equal ownership, and we approach all cultural work with reverence and respect.

  • We ask all who gather to engage with curiosity, humility, and reciprocity.

Cultural appropriation has no place in our festival. Integrity, acknowledgement, and respect guide our offerings.

Our Ongoing Commitment

Cultural safety is not a one-time action; it is a living practice that we place at the central altar of our gathering.

Our team continues to deepen our understanding through:

  • cultural safety and awareness training

  • trauma-informed and decolonizing practices

  • regular review of festival policies

  • consultation with cultural advisors and liaisons

  • community feedback and dialogue

  • Providing a set amount of free tickets for First Nations Women in the Ktunaxa and pay - what you can tickets for First Nations women around Canada and beyond - if you identify as a First Nations woman and wish to attend please email us @Earth Daughters Festival with the subject line 'First Nations Woman."

We acknowledge that we are learning. Mistakes may happen. When they do, we are committed to accountability, repair, and meaningful change.

Inclusion based on Biology 

As a woman’s festival, we understand Womanhood to be both a cultural and biological experience. Our gathering is a celebration, exploration, and educational journey around the biological roles and rhythms inherent to being female. 

We offer a sanctuary and brave space for women to fully embody their expression of Womanhood. 

As our work lies at the intersection of female biology and feminine expression, the experience of living in a female body is central to the festival experience.