Earth. Awe. Each other.

We Gather Every Sunday
10:00 am in Dolores Park

Join us for our very first gathering on Sunday, May 31st

Kin SF is for people who crave community, hunger for ritual, and find the sacred in the living world.

Who We Are

We are an eco-community, grounded in the earth, awe, and relationships.

As the Earth makes space for all beings, so do we.

Kin is short for kinship: the recognition that we belong to each other...and to something far larger than ourselves.

Frequently asked questions

  • Kin SF is a Sunday morning gathering for people who love the Earth, seek wonder in the world, and want a little more connection in their lives.

    We are people—curious, tired, hopeful, searching—coming together in SF to pay attention, share something true, and remember we're not alone.

  • Everyone attends for a different reason, but some of us find beauty in mystery, the mystical, the unseen. In the sound of the ocean or the quiet of the forest. Others find beauty and connectedness in science or philosophy.

    Many of us don’t resonate with traditional religion, while some of us do. We value presence and showing up over doctrine or beliefs.

    What we share: a love for the Earth, a hunger for connection, and the sense that awe — whatever its source — matters.

  • We gather together in the park. We listen. We notice the world around us. We share. We slow down.

    Every gathering moves through the same shape: arrival, connection, a shared reading or question, time to listen and share, and a closing that sends you back into your week feeling a little more connected and alive.

  • Every Sunday · 10am · Dolores Park

    Free. All are welcome. Bring a blanket.

    Kickoff: May 31st

    Look for the WILD flag.

A Welcoming

We are here on land shaped by the mighty Pacific to our West. An ocean so vast it has defined the western edge of a continent. Beneath us, the San Andreas Fault marks where two of the Earth's great plates meet and grind, slowly remaking this peninsula.

We are here on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. They are still here today, still sovereign, and still seeking the federal recognition long owed to them.

We are also joined by many others.

The red-tailed hawk above, the California ground squirrel, the oak that has stood firm in the earth for centuries, and the golden orange poppy opening its face to the morning sun.

Each of them living their own experience of this moment, on this ground, under this sky.

And so are each of you. With your breath, your worries, and your joys. Welcome.

About Joshua Hersh 

eco-chaplain of Kin SF

You can call me Joshua or Josh.

I'm an eco-chaplain and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

I believe the estrangement we feel from other people and the disconnect we feel from the Earth are the same wound—and that mending one requires mending the other.

I started Kin SF because I needed it, and sensed others might need it too. A place to gather on Sundays with people willing to slow down, get to know each other, and remember our kinship with the living world. No doctrine required. Just presence, curiosity, and the courage to be there for one another.

My thinking has been shaped by Robin Wall Kimmerer, John O'Donohue, C.G. Jung, Thomas Berry, Andreas Weber, and many others — all teachers who understood the Earth not as a backdrop to human life but as its very ground. I almost went to seminary twice. Turns out this is the community I was meant to build.

I live in San Francisco with my black cat, Liza.