Our Mission and Vision
Sacred Contract is a declaration, process, and legal pathway that supports a foundational paradigm shift in humanity’s relationship with nature. We believe that we must rekindle a practical and ethical relationship with the very lands we live and work on.
Our Mission
A fundamental shift in our cosmological and legal relationship with the earth in which we emancipate ourselves and the earth from an ownership relationship to a sacred relationship.
Our Vision
A world where humans live in kinship with all life and where nature is a stakeholder in legal agreements, ensuring regenerative systems and a thriving, abundant earth.
Our Approach
The shift in our relationship to nature requires that humanity as a whole embodies its interconnectedness to, and practice reciprocity with, nature.
We believe that the land and its ecosystems have an intrinsic right to flourish and regenerate through the fulfillment of their own natural cycles, and hold agency over their resources and relationships.
To uphold the rights of the lands with which we work, Sacred Contract has created pathways that allow for the legal protection of nature's right to thrive in perpetuity, support multicultural guardianship councils ability to be voices for the land and ensure the Lands needs are being met and rights are protected.
We work within a region to support a rights of nature based land tenure model that can scale to meet the growing needs of our ecosystems and communities. Within each region, we co-steward with Indigenous leaders and local communities members three primary components to ensure the Land’s legal sovereignty:
A legal entity that enables ecosystems to own themselves
Rights of nature easements for each Land
An intercultural Indigenous led guardianship council that can speak on behalf of the Lands1.