October’s theme

In these dynamic times that we’re living in where things are changing at a rapid pace, how can we be in relationship with uncertainty in a way that’s grounding, generative and liberating? As things continue to change, what can we be certain about within ourselves, the Universe, our relationships and the world?

In this audio recording I share how I’m making sense of these times that we’re living in. I share the opportunity I see to use collective healing as a tool to facilitate the paradigm shifts we need to address global issues. My exploration is rooted in the question: “What can we take from what we know about individual healing and apply it to the collective?” Share what you think in our free online community.

August’s Theme

Whether the changes you’re tuned into are related to our climate, or to the massive culture shifts that come with technology, or to the pervasive feelings of political homelessness that abound, or to a growing sense of something new that’s right around the corner for us as a civilization…

Being alive these days requires us to have a relationship with newness.

Coming up with our own answers about this time of complex world change. Between mass media, political divisiveness and urgent calls for social action, we can find ourselves being inundated with voices and perspectives that tell us what and how to think. In Circle we create space for you to figure that out for yourself.

Sure, this question seems obvious, but it’s more than just seeing from another’s view. Within the two forms of empathy — cognitive and emotional — the latter provides us with an embodied, felt sense understanding of each other that’s sorely missing in our divided US politics. Join my Post-Election Circle on Nov 8 to practice cultivating that empathy and tapping into our shared humanity.

I believe there’s a need for silence in this moment of racial reckoning from some of us. Not scared, feeble silence that cowers in the presence of this reality. And not slide-y silence that avoids, deflects and ignores. No, we need attentive silence. Observant silence. Silence that listens for and listens to the ghosts knocking at our doors and the collective trauma that’s coming to the surface.

An awakening process is happening for many people around white supremacy and racism: for some white people, waking up to the reality of systemic racism for the first time; for other people a further waking up to the reality that our system can’t reform itself; and for others it’s about shepherding the awakening of others. Wherever you are, thank you for showing up to the work. Anti-racism resources.

Inspired by Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum’s article, "The Power of the First Generation without Hope." A reflection on the wisdom of “the catastrophe isn’t the end, it’s in the middle." How the climate crisis is cracking us wide open to new ways of being we know in our bodies. Climate Circle offerings.

What does abundance mean in the face of climate change, structural inequality, resource constraints, and histories of oppression? What does it look like in practice? What does thinking about sustainability through the lens of abundance have to offer us practically, theoretically, spiritually?

Here we are. Staring ourselves straight in the eyes. Wondering what’s next… Information overload, collective awakening, emotions as fuel.

News stories and information overload that leads to being desensitized. Not allowing the information to land in the body. Reflections on learning to sit in the fire of discomfort and not knowing. To build our capacity for that. Heads up: content may be triggering.

Moral injury is a first-cousin to trauma. How living and participating in a society that doesn’t reflect my values is a moral injury; and as we continue to see the effects of climate injustice that moral injury will grow.

How do we make sense of climate change and systemic collapse? How do we allow that to land in our bodies in order to be more fully present with this moment in time? And how do we trust in the process going on? Because even though I don’t know how to make sense of climate change, I do know from my own healing journey that everything’s here for a reason and we must believe in that potential to actualize it.

How to deal with our divergent, fragmented notion of truth as a collective? Knowing that we all create our own realities of truth based on our unique algorithm of who we are. I watch myself begin to disappear. I’m brought back by the spiritual. What if I fully trust in the presence of this specific, complex web that is me? That even in the face of adversity that it has a place here, a right to be here and is needed.

Triggers — around the American flag, racial violence, misogyny — are real. And in our current political climate we all seem to be perpetually enflaming each others’. How can we represent our truths while being mindful of each others’ traumas?

During a cleanse the body brings built-up toxins to the surface in order to flush them out. How the 2016 election is part of a large process of purging what no longer serves us by bringing what we don’t want to see to the surface.