Generate a
Just and Life Affirming World
Our collective longing for change is palpable. We want to transform the suffering in our world. Rectify the injustices. Get right with the planet. Leave a place of safety, equity, and belonging for future generations.
And we can.
Collective Transformation
What does it take to create a just and life affirming world? How do we each need to grow and change? How do we create the systemic change we need, at the scale we need, in the necessary time frame to transform? These are vital questions to guide our healing, social action, and lives.
Be connected.
Be emboldened.
Be a force for good.
I have been experimenting at the intersections of personal and social transformation for the last 30 years through the work of Somatics, embodied leadership, trauma healing, and transformative justice. The aim of these projects has been to bring more transformative capacity to social and climate justice movements, to visionary leaders, and to communities committed to collective change—ultimately supporting us to be able to practice our visions in uncertain and intense conditions.
We Can Cultivate Joy and
Hold Complexity
Our times are asking a lot of us. We are asked to discover grounded hope when there is often hopelessness. We are called to embrace our collective reckoning with histories of colonization and slavery as the ground of this country's wealth. How can we do these things while loving well, cultivating joy, and learning together?
We can create change from a more centered, joyful and resourced place. We can learn together as we are asked to navigate contradictions and complexity. We can find healing from our wounds and the deep impacts of oppression, and open to more love, trust and collective power.
Purpose
Embodied transformation, purposeful practice, and community organizing for social justice help us find purpose and intentionality. Our inner work serves our collective work. Collective practice can serve our movements for justice.
Power
Somatics grounded in a commitment to liberation allows us to change our reactivity into responses that are guided by care. It allows us to cultivate a path of practice that includes Spirit and the world. It supports us in building life-affirming collective power.
Resilience
Instead of being overburdened, under-resourced, and attacking each other, we can challenge inequity and support climate justice with more resilience, wholeness, and power. We can learn together, we can change together.
I'm convinced, more than ever, that joy, love and a deep practice of interdependence are key parts of the path to collective liberation. I'm convinced that a deep connection to Land and to the Mystery is central, not only for inspiration but strategy as well.
Somatics is a Doorway
The body is a place of connection to our daily life and profound experience, a place of historical habit and survival strategies, and our interdependence with Land and the Mystery. When we talk about embodiment, or living through the body, we mean opening to more life, more aliveness, more discernment, and more skillful action.
Through the body, we can contact life intimately
Through the body, we can cultivate empathy for each other and all life. Through the body, we can transform our survival strategies. Through the body, we can be more accountable for our own reactivity as well as to our hopes and commitments.
The body is a doorway
We transform holistically through the soma. We experience and enact life through the soma. The body is our doorway to greater wisdom, compassion, and growing a presence that is trustworthy and life-affirming.
Trust
What is up with trust? Fear makes sense. Power-over systems harm people, land and whole communities. Fear is trying to protect, yet has us separate, creating an “other.” Lama Rod Owens teaches about surrounding ourselves with people who want us loved, safe, and free. What if we all knew how to do that well? What if we could give that to each other consistently?
The Politics of Trauma: Embodied Transformation, Social Action and Love
Whether you've been involved in social and climate justice long term, or care deeply but are not sure how to get more involved, this program offers a place of community, collective practice, and transformation — inviting us to live more fully, lead more boldly, and love more deeply.
