Honey Sweet Harmony is an interspecies creativity catalyzing mentorship constellation. We facilitate workplayshops focused on helping us remember our connectedness to all beings of the living earth, including our companion animals, co-working animals, wildlife, spirit animal allies, and Power Animals. We also facilitate New Moon Gatherings, monthly multigenerational multicultural gatherings such as Music is Medicine Song Circles based on the Natural Cycle/Medicine Wheel and Community Storytelling Gatherings, seasonal celebrations such as Ancestor Supper, as well as offering private sessions, classes, playshops, children's programs, life celebrations/memorial services, and blessing of home/work spaces & new projects. During pandemic social distancing, our group gatherings and private sessions are available by phone or internet.
Together we guide others in playful yet profoundly nourishing activities designed to honour and reawaken the interconnections between our spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental bodies. Through such adventures in inner and outer land/water/air-scapes, we are invited to walk our individual edges bravely while supported by allies, to cross thresholds with grace when we are called, and to renew our sacred connection with our Guides, our Ancestors, our siblings in the Earth Mother's family (Standing People-Trees, Rock People, Creature Teachers, and many more), and the Future Generations.
Walking in gratitude to so many mentors and anchors including SJ, Raccoon, Sam, Grandmother Cecile; K.L.S.; M.K. McCadden; C. S. Rupprecht; the Rabinowi; V. V. Vernon; A. Williams, Nancy Munn; Marshall Sahlins; Black Bear; Lilia, Hub, Kate, Soupy & the rest of the Living Earth School community; Dr. Michael Jabalee; shamanic training siblings; Grandmother Mary; Star Matthews; Jon Young, Mark Morey, and the rest of the 8 Shields/Tracker Family; Threshold Choir; Elisa S. Keeler and the Freeing Your Voice classes; the Earth Song Rising community, and Littlebird Flight School alumni.
McCadden, co-founder of Honey Sweet Harmony holistic consultations, is a cultural / eco-spiritual mentor, story and song tender, ritual/ceremony facilitator, shamanic practitioner, interspecies translator, grief tender, and threshold guide who has been engaging with individuals, partners, and groups of all ages to facilitate harmony within self, between people of all species, and with the natural world for over 550 lunar cycles. McCadden draws on an extensive background in multicultural performing arts (storytelling, theatre, movement, music), deep nature connection, Coyote mentoring, partnerships with companion animals, ESAs, and Service Dogs, shamanic healing and philosophy, peacemaking, grief tending, cross-cultural and linguistic translation, and intergenerational community cultivation. As a Schambach scholar McCadden received a B.A. summa cum laude from Hamilton College with honours in comp lit/Spanish/theatre/Irish studies, and with a M.A., A.B.D. from University of Chicago in cultural anthropology of ritual/theatre/Hindi-Urdu was a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow, FLAS Fellow, MacArthur Peace Studies Fellow, University Unendowed Scholar, and NSF Honorable Mention.
Co-founder Honey, who gifted our collaboration her name, walked on in January 2017. Born in 2001, she was a 50 lb. bundle of love, delight, kisses, sassafras, and firey earthy yang, born and raised on the southside of Chicago, looking and feeling like a mix of Shiba Inu, fox, coyote, and wolf all in one. Her younger brother Séamus Mícheál the yin Blue Ridge Mountain junk yard moon dog celebrated his birthdays on Losar Tibetan New Year. Feline twins Wyn and Isibéal also came from the Blue Ridge, as did mountain dog sister Wee Sliabh, who became a part of the pack in April 2019. Our youngest, songdog Paco Bandito, arrived in May 2021.
