Mixed Faces Wild Spaces
What is MFWS?
Mixed Faces Wild Spaces is a community outdoor organization for people whose lives are shaped by the compounding pressures of systems of domination—racism, ableism, classism, transphobia, xenophobia, and more.We offer liberatory outdoor programs grounded in healing, connection, and nature-based belonging.Sustained by sliding-scale events and services like guided nature experiences, consulting, and ecological design through our initiative, Triphyllum.All of this work moves toward a larger vision: a land based sanctuary where people are free to be whole.
Mission, Vision, & Values
Mission: We empower people whose lives are shaped by the compounding systems of domination to reclaim belonging and connection with themselves, each other, and all of nature—through inclusive outdoor experiences that provide tools, education, and community.Vision: And all of it—every program, every gathering, every garden—is a seed planted toward our long-term vision: a land-based sanctuary where everyone, people and planet, have what they need to be whole, rooted, and free in nature; fostering true belonging.Values: Grounded strongly in wisdom and guidance of Black Queer FeminismCommunal Healing – because no one heals aloneStewardship – because Earth care is both self and communal careBelonging – because difference is sacred and necessaryLove as the Practice of Freedom – because love builds collective liberation
Branches of Offerings
Built by and for people whose lives have been shaped by the systems of oppression, offering trauma-informed gatherings that center healing, joy, and relationship with land. We bring the gear. We offer adaptive tools. We create spaces that are kind, consent-based, and trauma-informed.Free Community Programs - (Currently Inactive due to Lack of Funding and Support)Sliding Scale Services and Events - These offerings sustain the collective of beings who hold this container, and allows us to put on free programs for our community.
Our Free Programs
Freedom By The Fire
OF NOTE, THIS PROGRAM IS SCALING BACK FROM MONTHLY TO POP UP STYLE
Nature x Liberation X Community. Join us as we come together around the fire to learn from one another about the movement for collective liberation in our own lives and communities, and how us as ordinary folks can engage in this movement.Connecting on the Rail Trail :
THIS PROGRAM IS PAUSED INDEFINITELY DUE TO LACK OF FUNDINGIn beautiful partnership with Finca Luna Búho. Join us for a free and recurring community event series along the Ashuwillticook Bike Trail in the Berkshire/Taconic Region. Run by and for people of historically underrepresented identities in the outdoors, together we will go biking, riding, walking, birding, foraging, plant IDing, exploring queer ecology, and much more!
Confused about where you land on the sliding scale in general?🌱For individuals/people, invitation use our optional self assessment tool!🌱For orgs or entities, please use our org assessment tool to determine where you fall on the sliding scale for our services.
Events and Services Offered
EventsNone at this time. Interested in a custom event for your group? Send us an email.Services
Guided wilderness/nature based experiences: Workshops, retreats, and nature-based events for your group. Think foraging, queer ecology hikes, tracking, shelter-building, intro to tent camping, skills shares, and much more!Speaking and consulting: Related to liberatory, trauma informed nature based programming aimed at participants of intersectional experiencesTriphyllum: our ecological, land-based branch. Offering custom site-specific designs rooted in the land’s story and your vision. Balancing the needs of people and planet.
Our Sliding Scale Prices
Custom pricing for each proposal/quote utilizing the following hourly sliding scale pricingPay-It-Forward: $85/hr
Supportive: $65/hr
Accessible: $45/hrNote: Materials are billed separately and must be paid upfront.
Join Us
🌱 We are planting seeds for a future where belonging is a birthright, and care is the currency.🌧️ If you are ready to water this vision in alignment, we welcome you in - whomever you may be.📍 Located in the Berkshire/Taconic Region of Turtle Island, within the unceded lands of the Mohican Nation📧 Contact us via email at [email protected] to inquire about our offerings and to come into connection!🌐Check out our Instagram or Tik Tok for announcements about our free community events and much more!🌱 Help us nourish this vision! We invite you to steward this vision with us in the ways that feel aligned with your skills and abilities:🦋 For Tax Deductible Donations towards our Connecting on the Rail Trail Program, check out our donation link here.
🦋 We accept new and lightly used outdoor gear to add to our gear library! Please contact us first.
🦋 Check out our Kofi shop! Kofi allows us to receive one time and recurring donations, post updates about our needs/ goals, and offer a variety of products for clients to purchase at sliding scale prices!We will be offering zines/ diy guides/ worksheets/ other intellectual labor, culturally relevant hiking guides to the berkshires for folks who experience marginalization, inclusive outdoor curriculum for groups, ecological/ permaculture designs, stickers/pins with our logo, and much more!
