You Belong: A Call for Connection

Remember, “creative” and “reactive” are the same letters and curiosity is the key. A true response is momentary. Reactivity is perpetuated by a thinking mind that is locked into concepts or perceptions, closed off to the changing moments of lived experience, no longer curious.

Being is lost in the pressure of activity (and accumulation).

We continually deepen our exploration, integrate our understanding, and evolve our capacities while also resting in the freedom and ease of accepting exactly how things are for us right now.

The pathology of productivity is entwined with a pathology of performativity. The need to always do (and share) keeps us from grounding, knowing, loving, connecting, and ultimately from being.

Cultural dismissal begat the word “woo-woo” and perpetuates an arrogant conviction that contemporary Western (i.e., white) approaches are more valid because they have dropped the “cultural baggage” of the past.

Cultures mix. That’s the nature of life. Whether or not that mixing is done with attention to the realities of colonization and domination, history and lineage is up to us.

Embodied awareness, self-knowledge, and self-love are the foundations. When we love ourselves in every moment, we experience the external world through love and can support our own sense of belonging.

“All of you are perfect just as you are. And you could use a little improvement.”

As a group, we agree to consciously avoid harm as well as acknowledge and understand when we have unintentionally cased harm.