healing in community
In these last years we’ve shared a tumultuous and sometimes traumatic experience. Life has become systemically harder in so many ways but we’re still led to believe that it is our individual responsibility to be OK. That isn’t actually consistent with the millenia of being human. We aren’t individualists by nature. We are beings who need other beings; we are communal and that’s how we’ve always survived.
The traditional models of counseling and psychotherapy may not suffice to serve the needs of this time, but that’s OK. Since we’ve suffered together, we can heal together. We can light up the healing presence within each of us to share with others. We need others and others need us. We are not alone and each of us has a role to play for others in this world. I have a strong feeling that we will heal from this collectively or not at all.
For this reason, I am offering events and classes to reawaken the ability to really be there for ourselves and take great care of ourselves but also really be there for others and help them take great care, too. It’s through caring for others and being cared about by others that we heal. Not in isolation, not in an office alone with a stranger, or worse, alone on a screen, but with community. My new friend, Jill Clause shared the elements of a talking circle used in her Native Tuscarora community. Our Haudenosaunee neighbors come from a very long tradition of healing in community and community healing and I feel great appreciation for the conversation in which she shared some wisdom with me. As a Saltwater person, I am not entitled to that. A hundred thousand thanks to her. May this work heal and liberate all beings everywhere.
Look at the community healing events tab for current offerings.