my philosophy
is grounded in my highest passion and priorities:
building connection, fostering understanding, bridging communities.
in the pursuit of a world that world for all of us.
this work is ever developing, emerging through my interactions with life.
I am informed by all of the communities and teachers and mentors and relationships that I have been blessed to experience.
Some of the theories and schools I’ve studied are:
sociology / emergent strategy / somatics / ethnic studies / intersectional feminism & womanism / jungian shadow work / tropical astrology / (inhales) / symbolic interactionism / radical pedagogy / social media studies / polyvagal theory / neurolinguistic programming / techno-opimism / emergent wisdom / futurism / (exhales)
We Earthlings are in quite a pickle, aren’t we?
Humanity doesn’t know how to relate to itself.
Shrouded in shame and fearful whispers, our trauma has metastasized, trapping us in a heightened state that constantly anticipates Imminent Danger.
Now, it’s not that there isn’t legitimate precedent for this fear.
Humans have faced threats of famine, violence, and resource scarcity for eons.
But our social and personal programming hasn’t caught up to what is currently available in our world.
When we move from this state of fear, our primitive mind often makes exaggerated assessments about our safety, scarcity, and danger— despite living in a world that has an unprecedented amount of technology, resource access, and communication infrastructure.
When we live unconsciously from these fears, we create them as our reality.
The fear that there is not enough to go around.
The fear that we’re all separate .
The fear that we are constantly under threat.
So many of us live in this state of fear, inherited from our world’s violent past and present, that we constantly replicate this trauma externally, causing a ripple effect that is always shaping our material and ethereal worlds. When we continue to treat the world’s resources and people without reverence, we create the very conditions for the future we fear.
We must stop living through this archaic socio-spiritual model of domination, we must cease to give power to, feed, and grow the systems that have resulted from and continuously create colonization.
We begin to heal and live differently through an activation of our imagination, our self reflection, our practices, our action. We evolve towards a more right relationship to life itself. We can imagine something new when we broaden our awareness so much that we start living our alternatives.
We move from the triggered Imminent Danger dichotomy of
either/or to both/and
us/them to the same team
and black/white to an expansive continuum
Shedding this colonial programming means we move from blame, repression, shame, drama triangulation, and trauma loops,
into
a deeper state of co-creation with our universe. We move to a sacred continuum, a celebration of the gray area, the both/and.
Only then we can move to a both/and/what if paradigm of possibility, hope, and conscious co-creation-- the next expansive rung on our collective cosmic spiral.
Utilizing hope as a creative tool of liberation.
We cannot just love these ideas as ideas, but find sustainable ways to put them into the practice of our living.
How we relate to the self, the body, and the collective has to fundamentally change in order to consistently execute new practices and ways of being. This shift will take courage of conviction, believing in our resilience, and developing our capacity to meaningfully engage challenges.
Ultimately, How we are addressing this shift of consciousness- on the collective and individual scale- is my greatest interest, and my highest excitement.
When we center the inherent goodness of all people, we see what’s possible for humanity itself.
Guiding Questions
How do we move from unjust systems to those that weave joy into a collective humanity?
How do we create a world embedded with justice, fairness, love, and sufficiency?
How do we start living that now?
How do we make right by our wrongs, our vicious and violent human history?
How does that process of making right change, based our identities?
How can we connect to the everlasting and true beauty of our ancestors and past, through this shadow work?
How can we move through shame and guilt so we can stand in our power?
What does decolonization mean-- what are its nooks and crannies and how do we live it?
What does it mean to connect to our roots when so many of us have been uprooted from our ancestral trees?
What does it mean to be and live freedom, when none of us are free until we all are?
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
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“
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public”
— Cornel West