Enrollment is now open for The Rebel MFA Sanctuary!
A village for people who can’t do surface-level bullshit anymore.
#Truthbomb:
A lot of spaces can hold people.
Very few are designed to actually connect them.
The gap between “membership” and “belonging” is where so many of us are quietly suffocating.
The Sanctuary exists to close that gap—by doing something simple, ancient, and increasingly rare:
We gather consistently.
We tell the truth.
We witness each other.
We build a village—fire by fire.
What The Sanctuary is:
The Rebel MFA Sanctuary is for people who are no longer satisfied by content to consume.
It’s for people who want doorways to experience:
a place to show up when the world is on fire and you can’t “schedule your breakdown”
a place to create because you’re alive, not because you’re optimizing
a place where your creative work isn’t separated from your nervous system, your grief, your rage, your hope, your tenderness
a place where “going deeper” is the whole point
This is practice—in being human, together.
“I never knew I needed a village like this until I found The Sanctuary.”
— SARA B., COMMUNITY MEMBER
The Sanctuary is for you if...
You’re exhausted by performative spaces—and you want something real.
You’ve been told you’re “too much,” “too deep,” “too intense,” or “too out there,” and you’re done shrinking.
You crave honest conversation (not fixing, not reframing, not “good vibes only”).
You want to build what doesn’t exist—because the existing structures couldn’t or wouldn’t provide it.
You want creativity that feels like alchemy + truth, not content strategy.
You don’t just want connection—you want community with shared cost, care, and responsibility.
The Sanctuary is probably not for you if...
You want a tidy, linear curriculum with neat outcomes and gold stars.
You want a big audience and fast monetization more than you want depth and integrity.
You want “community” without participation—lurking-only, drop-in-only, never-be-seen.
You want comfort more than you want honesty.
Hi, I’m Jade!
I built this village because I needed it.
Not a program. Not an institution.
Not something that required permission.
A door.
A container the existing structures couldn’t—or wouldn’t—provide.
If you’ve been waiting to feel seen again, if you’re ready to stop doing everything alone, if you’re ready to go deeper:
Come sit with us.
How the Sanctuary Works
The Sanctuary is built around consistent gathering—so connection can actually form.
Inside, you’ll find:
Daily(ish) rooms for presence: show up, journal, speak, witness, be witnessed
A container for the hard things: the rage, the grief, the numbness, the “I can’t look away anymore” moments
A creative hearth: where making isn’t separate from living
A village-in-practice: where belonging is built through repetition and truth, not branding
People come to the Sanctuary because they’re tired of going alone.
They stay because something rare happens:
you stop performing connection
you stop trying to be “easy to be around”
you remember what it feels like to be met
you create again—not as output, but as life force
you start building the kind of village you used to think you had to find
The Sanctuary doesn’t promise a new personality.
It offers something better:
A place to tell the truth and not be punished for it.
“I’m exactly where I belong.”
— LESLEY DOBIS, COMMUNITY MEMBER
Founding Members Pricing Options
Monthly
$29/Mo
Annually
$299/Year