Medicine Wheel Cycle Facilitator

The Medicine Wheel Cycle Facilitator holds the ceremonial backbone of the Office's annual program: Sky Day openings, Earth Day closings, Rimanakuy and Minga facilitation, and the four seasonal community gatherings at the solstices and equinoxes. Across a full program year this amounts to 52+ ceremonies. The role is currently active and single-pointed on Alana (Vision Keeper).

Status: Active · Current holder: Alana · Count: 1+ · Languages: EN / ES

What This Role Holds

The Medicine Wheel Cycle Facilitator is responsible for the ceremonial opening and closing of every sub-cycle within the 13-cycle program year. Each ~29-day cycle contains:

One in-person Opening Ceremony (Sky Day) and its matching Closing Ceremony (Earth Day)
One Zoom Opening Ceremony (Sky Day) and its matching Closing Ceremony (Earth Day)

The Sky Day opening seeds the container through prayer, orientation, and an Ayni ceremony of gratitude, reciprocity, and intention. The Earth Day closing grounds the cycle through integration and embodiment, supporting participants in carrying insight back into daily life.

Beyond the sub-cycle ceremonies, the Facilitator convenes the four seasonal community gatherings anchored to the spring and autumn equinoxes and the summer and winter solstices. These are the program's highest-ceremony touchpoints within the annual calendar.

The role also carries Rimanakuy facilitation — convening and holding community-research consensus ceremonies — and Minga facilitation (confirmed active 2026-05-12). In the Kichwa ecological role schema, this maps directly to the Rimanakuy facilitator position: the one who convenes and holds the community-research consensus ceremony to its endpoint of consensus. See Wasi, Sacha, and the Kichwa Ecological Role Schema for the full schema.

Ceremony Count

Thirteen cycles × four ceremonies per cycle (two in-person, two Zoom) = 52 ceremonies, plus four seasonal community gatherings, yields 56+ ceremonial events per program year at minimum, before counting Rimanakuy or Minga sessions. The brief uses "52+" as a floor figure.

Each 13-cycle year is organized by seasonal virtue themes (Optimism, Intuition, Courage, Kindness, Reciprocity, Leadership, Consistency, Integrity, Patience, Tenderness, Respect, Trust, plus a cycle-completion wrap). See Medicine Wheel Spiritual Container for the full six-day cycle structure and how cycles nest within the lunar and seasonal calendar.

Accountability Rhythm

The weekly check-in cadence for cycle facilitators is Moonday — the recurring accountability anchor for this role inside each sub-cycle.

Current Holder and Rotation

The role is currently single-pointed on Alana. The apprenticeship pipeline (internally tracked as co-facilitator-apprentice-training) must mature before this work can rotate to additional holders. Until that pipeline produces trained co-facilitators, the ceremonial continuity of the program depends entirely on Alana's capacity.

The role is designed to eventually support 1+ holders, and rotation is architecturally possible once the apprenticeship pathway is functional.

Registry Entries

Operational needs currently mapped to this role:

sub-cycle-opening-ceremonies
sub-cycle-closing-ceremonies
spring-equinox-gathering (and corresponding seasonal gatherings)
zoom-room-configuration
rimanakuy-facilitation (active as of 2026-05-12)
minga-facilitation (active as of 2026-05-12)

Medicine Wheel Spiritual Container — the six-day cycle this role opens and closes
Rimanakuy and Minga — the ceremony forms this role facilitates
Ayni — the reciprocity principle seeded in each Sky Day opening
Wasi, Sacha, and the Kichwa Ecological Role Schema — places this role as Rimanakuy facilitator in the Kichwa schema
Follow Through Keeper — the role most naturally suited to Minga facilitation after Rimanakuy closes