Liberation from socialization
From the start, we have been actively investigating deep questions about what needs to be in place for us humans to be able to recover from individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma which gets internalized through patriarchal socialization into scarcity, separation, and powerlessness. We are concerned that the path of individual healing from trauma is too slow for the gravity of what we are facing, and we are exploring when such healing is truly necessary.
Here are some of the questions we are looking at:
- How much capacity can a cohesive, high-trust group have to integrate people with significant trauma and still continue to function in togetherness and attend to purpose?
- How far can any of us continue to move towards leadership, aligning with values and purpose, authentic relationships, choice within togetherness, and whatever else we imagine as part of visionary functioning without needing to put significant resources into doing healing work?
- To what extent can anchoring our commitments behaviorally support us in staying the course even when we are challenged because of trauma?
- How far does being part of a community serve, in itself, as a path of liberation? Is it enough for us to be held in full? Does it shift our baseline functioning when authentic expression is a baseline and care and empathy are woven into how we work together? Is in-the-moment support about how to respond when any patterns arise sufficient to support us in finding choice in difficult moments?
- How can we develop trauma healing modalities that are oriented to the moment and to purpose and are systemically rather than individually grounded?
In all these ways, we see ourselves as challenging deep norms and developing our own principles about what care means within the context of a rigorous commitment to liberation, how to integrate purpose focus with deep intimacy, and about how to co-discern, within the focus on vision and liberation, whether and when it makes sense for someone to be part of a group.
If these questions are of interest to you, this is only the tip of the iceberg. We have a section in the website that we are affectionately calling “the Nerdy Corner” where you can find out much more about us: the over 40 principles that we are articulating within our values; the practices and the many voids that they point to (coming soon); the detailed version of our gift experiments (coming soon); documentation about our work; what we learned from a community experiment in 2021; and more as it gets added over time.
From the start, we have been actively investigating deep questions about what needs to be in place for us humans to be able to recover from individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma which gets internalized through patriarchal socialization into scarcity, separation, and powerlessness. We are concerned that the path of individual healing from trauma is too slow for the gravity of what we are facing, and we are exploring when such healing is truly necessary.
Here are some of the questions we are looking at:
- How much capacity can a cohesive, high-trust group have to integrate people with significant trauma and still continue to function in togetherness and attend to purpose?
- How far can any of us continue to move towards leadership, aligning with values and purpose, authentic relationships, choice within togetherness, and whatever else we imagine as part of visionary functioning without needing to put significant resources into doing healing work?
- To what extent can anchoring our commitments behaviorally support us in staying the course even when we are challenged because of trauma?
- How far does being part of a community serve, in itself, as a path of liberation? Is it enough for us to be held in full? Does it shift our baseline functioning when authentic expression is a baseline and care and empathy are woven into how we work together? Is in-the-moment support about how to respond when any patterns arise sufficient to support us in finding choice in difficult moments?
- How can we develop trauma healing modalities that are oriented to the moment and to purpose and are systemically rather than individually grounded?
In all these ways, we see ourselves as challenging deep norms and developing our own principles about what care means within the context of a rigorous commitment to liberation, how to integrate purpose focus with deep intimacy, and about how to co-discern, within the focus on vision and liberation, whether and when it makes sense for someone to be part of a group.
If these questions are of interest to you, this is only the tip of the iceberg. We have a section in the website that we are affectionately calling “the Nerdy Corner” where you can find out much more about us: the over 40 principles that we are articulating within our values; the practices and the many voids that they point to (coming soon); the detailed version of our gift experiments (coming soon); documentation about our work; what we learned from a community experiment in 2021; and more as it gets added over time.
From the start, we have been actively investigating deep questions about what needs to be in place for us humans to be able to recover from individual, intergenerational, and collective trauma which gets internalized through patriarchal socialization into scarcity, separation, and powerlessness. We are concerned that the path of individual healing from trauma is too slow for the gravity of what we are facing, and we are exploring when such healing is truly necessary.
Here are some of the questions we are looking at:
- How much capacity can a cohesive, high-trust group have to integrate people with significant trauma and still continue to function in togetherness and attend to purpose?
- How far can any of us continue to move towards leadership, aligning with values and purpose, authentic relationships, choice within togetherness, and whatever else we imagine as part of visionary functioning without needing to put significant resources into doing healing work?
- To what extent can anchoring our commitments behaviorally support us in staying the course even when we are challenged because of trauma?
- How far does being part of a community serve, in itself, as a path of liberation? Is it enough for us to be held in full? Does it shift our baseline functioning when authentic expression is a baseline and care and empathy are woven into how we work together? Is in-the-moment support about how to respond when any patterns arise sufficient to support us in finding choice in difficult moments?
- How can we develop trauma healing modalities that are oriented to the moment and to purpose and are systemically rather than individually grounded?
In all these ways, we see ourselves as challenging deep norms and developing our own principles about what care means within the context of a rigorous commitment to liberation, how to integrate purpose focus with deep intimacy, and about how to co-discern, within the focus on vision and liberation, whether and when it makes sense for someone to be part of a group.
If these questions are of interest to you, this is only the tip of the iceberg. We have a section in the website that we are affectionately calling “the Nerdy Corner” where you can find out much more about us: the over 40 principles that we are articulating within our values; the practices and the many voids that they point to (coming soon); the detailed version of our gift experiments (coming soon); documentation about our work; what we learned from a community experiment in 2021; and more as it gets added over time.