Retreats, bootcamps and finding our way back to each other
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Hey hey -
I’ve been thinking a lot about isolation and loneliness. Have you
been feeling it too?
The truth is, we’ve been stuck in a culture of social distancing
long before COVID 19. The erosion of accessible community
structures over the last few decades have left us isolated and
striving for self preservation above collective care. Individuals
and communities have become more isolated and fragmented,
breaking away from the social bonds of many aspects of life —
familial, neighborly, religious, social and civic.
In the absence of community structures that anchor people in
mutual interest and cooperation, you have a culture that becomes
vulnerable to the traps of self-reliance, self-interest and even
self-care. Reclaiming our individual and collective selves can’t
be found in self-help books and personal seeking, it can only be
achieved through relationship and community. As bell hooks
reminds us “Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others
will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love
cannot flourish in isolation.”
The irony of our American life is that our obsession with self
and individual liberty has made us less supported and more
vulnerable. All of the political freedoms we are supposedly
entitled to as American citizens are useless in the face of the
many interdependent crises we are facing — whether it be economic
collapse, a deadly pandemic or environmental devastation. The
only way to get free is through each other.
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*RETREAT ALERT*
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The Detox Retreat is a radical and embodied inquiry into
what’s holding us back and what’s needed for us to step into our
greatest potential. Through movement, meditation, radical
reflection, rest and recreation, we will unwind and release all
that we are carrying so that we can open up to all that we are
becoming. It will be a generous balance of practice and play as
we reflect on where we are coming from and imagine into where we
are going.
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EMBODYING SOCIAL JUSTICE…TOGETHER
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This is a one-of-a-kind, once per year, 3-month certificate
program committed to collective liberation by increasing
awareness, unlearning oppressive social patterns, repairing
relationships and building trust & belonging. This is NOT a
summit. Go beyond conventional DEI to where bias and breakdown
lives: in the body. Begins April 3.
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Unlearning Whiteness: March 23 - 26
The call for white people to “do the work” is a serious one. Not
just because of the historical and present, pervasive and
persistent, embodied and systemic impact of white supremacy on
Black and Brown people, but because it threatens our democracy,
our planet and our humanity as a whole. White supremacy is bad
for all of us. This training is designed for well-meaning white
people who are ready to reckon with how we’re implicated in the
system of white supremacy and what it's going to take to detox
our body/mind and heal our humanity.
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Unlearning Whiteness
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(UN) LEARNING COHORT
Last chance to sign up for our “Year of Unlearning” cohort. This
community of practice will move us through the inquiry of detox
and recovery in mutual support and creativity.
Using the American Detox book as a guide, we will explore how
we’ve been shaped by toxic ideologies (ie: perfectionism,
whiteness, scarcity) and what it’s going to take to heal our
cultural wounds and transform into new ways of being and
possibility. Registration ends March 21st.
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Year of UNlearning
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[email protected]
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