A New Vision of Sacred Embodied Community

This weekend is the beginning of an exploration of coming together in brotherhood and sisterhood to dare to be bold, to dream our wild and passionate visions of co-creating sacred community.

This is an experimental coming together in response to our deepest heart longing and grief of where we now find ourselves as humanity on earth.

There is a maturity and wisdom that grows from a broken open heart. From a willingness to become intimate with life in times of great change, loss and uncertainty. There is a leadership that is calling us to slow down within the urgency that we can sense in our bones.

Remembering unity and honouring diversity

We need sacred space that honours our diversity, that is in service of the whole. To build upon a foundation to deepen authentic relational contact that values what is true for each of us, listening and openness, to hold our stories of right and wrong with lightness. To be willing to not fix problems as a way out of not being able to tolerate emotions.

A embodied community that can use skills and support to navigate conflict. That acknowledges generational trauma and can begin to find ways together to heal.

Ecological crisis /Embodied Justice

There is an ever growing mountain of truth that the planet is in the wake of 5th extinction . It is very likely social collapse will be seen in our life as the legacy of never ending expansion and the denial of ecological emergency wakes up in the collective consciousness. (to be edited changed)

Working to heal collective trauma

We have deep collective wounds as men and women and in community. Our relationship to belonging to community has often carried further re-traumatising. Trauma can be likened to a raw pain that lives within us, that is so sensitive and in shock that when activated we can easily become disembodied, spinning into reactive survival mechanisms. Trauma can create huge pockets of re-enacting and division to the harmony and balance in community. We need to acknowledge the trauma we all hold and to find both personal and collective ways to heal together.

Regeneration focus

We need to prepare for these times ahead, to sow seeds for our children and the next generation. To embody resilience at all levels. liberation and freedom in the face of all that feels hopeless. Awakeness as a antidote to numbness, tenderness and grief as a medicine for our armour, ceremony to support our denial, connection with spirit and remember our unity. Passionate service and embodied activism as alchemy to our anger, hate and reactivity. Surrender and vulnerability to our primal anxieties and need to control outcome.

Ritual to heal community, reclaiming belonging, land and ancestor healing

We cannot make blanket statements about healing trauma, i.e this is what is needed. Ritual can be a welcoming home and belonging, reclaiming and remembering of our unity. A place to tend and befriend all that is exiled within us. The elements of fire, water, ancestor bones, earth, air, music, singing, chanting, wailing, being witnessed in our stories are all ways of reclaiming this simple yet powerful healing. Embodiment, dance, movement and music are profound ways to transmute trauma that speaks through how the one body within us holds maps and keys to what we need to bring deeper healing here.

Post colonialism

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