The Adrienne Carci Scholarship was created to honor the life, spirit, and impact of Adrienne Carci, a beloved member of the Rooted Authority community.
Adrienne believed deeply in growth, self-trust, and becoming who you are meant to be, even when the path feels heavy or uncertain. This scholarship exists to carry that belief forward.
Each quarter, one recipient will be selected to receive three months of Rooted Authority support, fully funded. This includes access to coaching, community, and the tools needed to build clarity, momentum, and grounded leadership.
This scholarship is offered in perpetuity, because Adrienne’s impact did not end with her life. It continues through the people who are still becoming.
*Applications are reviewed quarterly. All submissions are kept confidential.
Who This Scholarship is For
This scholarship is for someone who feels called to grow, but may not currently have the financial means to invest in support.
You do not need to be polished.
You do not need to have it “all figured out.”
You do need to be willing to show up honestly and do the work.
We are especially mindful of applicants navigating transition, grief, rebuilding, or reinvention, seasons Adrienne herself understood deeply.
If you feel drawn here, you are encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
To apply for the Adrienne Carci Scholarship, please complete the application form linked below.
Applications are reviewed with care and intention. Selection is based on alignment, readiness, and need, not perfection.
Recipients will be notified directly.
*Applications are reviewed quarterly. All submissions are kept confidential.
Who is Adrienne Carci?
Adrienne Carci was many things to many people - friend, leader, truth-teller, healer, medicine person, and steady presence. What follows was written by Tam Dillon, the Founder of Critical Mass.
Adrienne was one of those rare people whose presence softened rooms and steadied hearts. She was deeply human, honest, grounded, and unmistakably herself. People trusted her not because she told them what they wanted to hear, but because she held truth with compassion. If you went to Adrienne, you went because you were ready to be real. She would meet you with clarity, warmth, and a love that never shamed or diminished you.
She carried the weight of her life experiences with grace, not as something that broke her spirit, but as something that deepened it. Her life was marked by grief, loss, and depth. Yet what she brought into the world was gentleness, humour, unwavering kindness, and the kind of strength that is rooted in authenticity rather than force. She embodied compassion as a living practice. She was a soft place to land, a steady pillar in community, the one people turned to when they needed grounding, honesty, or simply to be held without judgment.
Adrienne loved people. She loved cultivating connection, nurturing community, bringing others together, and creating spaces where people felt seen and supported. Mindfulness, meditation, movement, music, and embodied presence were not ideas for her. They were how she lived. Her way of being invited others to soften, breathe, and return to themselves.
Where Adrienne was still finding her feet was not in who she was or the work she offered. Those parts of her needed no refinement at all. Her medicine, her integrity, and her heart were already complete. What she was learning, with openness and courage, were the practical realities of business. Building structures that could hold the depth of her calling. She stepped into that process wholeheartedly, receiving guidance, doing the work, and beginning to experience real ease and growth in a part of life many practitioners struggle with. Watching her begin to thrive, integrate skills, and claim space for her work was a privilege for all of us who witnessed it.
Adrienne will be remembered as a pillar of integrity and compassion. Someone who embodied strength without hardness, love without naivety, and honesty without cruelty. She leaves behind the communities she helped build, the many people she steadied and supported, and a living legacy of kindness, courage, and presence.
If there was ever a person who modeled what it means to remain true to oneself while still giving fully to others, it was Adrienne. She was deeply loved. She will be deeply missed. And the imprint of who she was will continue to shape and support those she touched for years to come
