About Us
Our Vision
Bringing ancient Indigenous ways of knowing and wisdom into modern times.
Amplifying the voices of the world’s Indigenous Wisdom-Keepers.
Our Purpose
The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways (GCILL) is an informal umbrella created to support long-term and short-term projects that educate and inform people about Indigenous ways to raise human consciousness and co-create a harmonious relationship with Mother Earth.
The initial focus of GCILL is to advance the capacity to share the messages of wisdom keepers, including the work of Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff while helping other-selves and Mother Earth.
Learn about our initiatives
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Ilarion is an Elder from the Unangan peoples (known by their colonized name as Aleut) of the Bering Sea (Alaska). His native name, ‘Kuuyux,’ given to him by the last Kuuyux of his tribe, denotes an arm extending from the body and names him as a messenger and a carrier of ancient knowledge. He speaks and teaches on a variety of Indigenous topics around the world.
Learn more about Ilarion
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Wisdom Weavers of the World is a collaborative project that brings together Elders and Earth activists to share Indigenous wisdom and sacred teachings. We host events to gather with one another and produce recordings to share messages that help shift consciousness and instructions for how to live in balance and harmony with the natural world.
Learn more about WWW
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Wombs of Peace is a collective of women of wisdom who convene monthly before the full moon to share wisdom and connect with each other, our wombs, and to restore the sacred feminine. Participants of all genders are welcome.
Learn more about WOP
Who do we weave wisdom with?
“aang-waan”
Our founder, Ilarion, is an Unangan Elder.
“Aang-Waan” means “Hello my other self” in Unangan Tunuu (Aleut Language). The Unangan (Aleut) people come from the Aleutian and Pribilof islands in the Bering sea of Alaska. “Aang Waan”, or “Hello my other self”, is a greeting used by the Unanagan towards everyone and everything they (we) meet.
The more you say it wholeheartedly, the more meaning and layers it carries, in relation to self and to other—be it another human, animal, plant, nature, plant, or… anything, really.
It is a greeting that carries the vibration of our interconnectedness to all else. We welcome you to use this greeting—it is the essence of how we relate to one another.
