This moment is ripe for transformation

Sometimes, when I go to write these blogs, I don’t know where to begin.

To name the need for collective healing at this time quickly becomes a spinning spiral of current events that my brief message to you can’t do justice. Whether it’s addressing anti-Asian racism in the US and across the world, or violence against women in Australia and the UK; processing mass shootings in the US, or George Floyd’s trial, or targeted attacks in Mozambique. The demand for justice and the need to end violence continues to reverberate through our institutions, communities and collective consciousness.

While advocating for change, witnessing violence, educating ourselves about current events, and organizing to take action, we must also remember the need for healing - both to sustain this much-needed work, as well as to transform and hospice the deeper layers of this cultural change.

Because none of us are immune to prejudice, and healing is needed on all sides of the equation - for the ways we’ve been personally abused, oppressed, and undermined by society, as well as the ways we’ve perpetuated discrimination, been agents of prejudice, and (consciously or unconsciously) disregarded someone else’s humanity based on superficial means. In a culture that teaches us to exploit each other and our Earth for profit and power, many of us can relate to both sides of this coin.

This moment in time we’re living in is ripe with opportunities for real transformation, and all of us have a role to play. Our emotions - that funky good stuff that’s coursing through our minds and bodies - are offering us portals for deeper work on behalf of the world; on behalf of collective liberation. We have an opportunity to heal deeper layers of our lived experiences that are tied to intergenerational and historical trauma that can lead us to shift our behaviors and perspectives in a way that can give birth to a new world.

And We Heal For All is here for this collective healing work. To be a psychologically safe space for your emotions, your moral grapplings, your spiritual heart. And to be a convening ground for fellow healers, practitioners, facilitators and community leaders who are doing this much-needed healing work for the world.

As Eugene Gendlin, founder of Focusing Therapy, puts it, “Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step.” We are wired to heal, and this is more than just a nice saying on a poster in your therapist’s office. A growing body of neurobiological evidence backs this up and is paving the way to help us scale and strengthen this collective healing movement.

Will you join us?

Hi, I’m Liz Moyer Benferhat. Writer, facilitator, coach, and development practitioner dedicated to the subtle interplay between how inner transformation feeds the outer transformation we need in the world. Welcome 🌿