Embodying a New Paradigm:

a *free* online, monthly gathering

part group energy healing, part loving-kindness meditation

to humbly participate in transmuting the collective shadows of things like greed, disconnect, and exploitation from where their potential lives inside each of us;

while practicing being the Love we want to see in the world.

Because the outer world is a mirror of the inner and we need to be the change.

The Instigating Spark

Genocide, ecocide, gross inequity, housing and cost-of-living crises, surveillance states, unethical AI use, the Epstein files…

Everywhere we turn these days the cost of power, greed, industry, capitalism, technocracy, empire, etc is becoming overwhelmingly obvious. And the people willing to pay that cost with other human and beyond-human lives are parading themselves in the open more boldly and with increasing impunity.

Where is justice? Who is going to stop them and save us? What can one, small, sensitive human do in the face of all this?

If you’re asking questions like that, you might also be slightly alarmed to find

• how frozen you feel in the face of it all,

• how exhausted you are by it,

• how quickly your stated values of loving compassion seem to disappear into a desire to rage and scream and blame “the bad guys” or to totally check out and hide your head in the sand.

But here’s a bold and potentially challenging truth:

If we just blame others, if we keep ourselves separate somehow from what’s happening, as if these are the actions of a few, evil villains, we also keep ourselves from the accountability of the moment.

What if the people perpetrating and benefiting from these crises aren’t aberrations or outliers?

What if, instead, they’re the naked-faced, inevitable outcome of an inherited trajectory, made up of 800-ish years of choosing machines over creatures, empire over kinship, and profits over stewardship?

What if they’re what embracing a fully machine-oriented (not human-creature-oriented life) looks like?

And, perhaps even more bitter to swallow:

What if we’ve all inherited the same potential, internalized the same propaganda? What if the patterns of exploitation, extraction, and harm (perhaps less fully-realized but just as possible) lie inside each of us?

While that may not feel good going down, perhaps it also feels a bit liberating. Because that means what’s plaguing us collectively isn’t so much a question of personalities (although it might be a little bit that), but more likely it’s the choices we make, individually and collectively, regarding our own humanity and way of being in the world.

And the great news there is that’s something we each have some say in. So, now we can take some power back.

The Deeper Invitation

I offer that we’re facing a collective reckoning, an initiation of sorts and an invitation back to our humanity. And along with it, the chance to do some deep repair work in our relationship with our creature-selves, with each other, and with our beyond-human kin.

If we can let ourselves encounter this moment, be changed by this moment; if we can approach repair with humility, curiosity, and courage; I see the possibility of a totally new paradigm - less surviving, more thriving; fewer machines, more creatures; and above all, Love and care for all life.

So what do we do? How can we show up for this reckoning in a way that doesn’t continue adding to the problems? Can we begin embody the new paradigm, even if we’ve never been there before?

The Heart Of It

The idea for this gathering came through as I was working on my Living as Creature, Not Machine course and was naming our collective wounds and shadow - the ones that separated us from our animist, ancestral, land-based ways of living and serving.

I was naming this wound in the course because we all carry pieces of it and it will show up - in our activism, in our spiritual practices, in any attempt we make to reclaim our humanity and buck the current status quo by living differently. But I realized it wasn’t within the scope of that course to work deeply with it. Plus, working with it needed to happen in a group, together, and on a ongoing basis - being human is life-long practice, after all.

So I designed this offer.

It’s part inner work, part group shadow work and grief ritual, part loving-kindness meditation to begin bridging the inner work with the outer world.

These are interactive sessions, guided by me but co-created in real-time by the energies and experiences of those of us who gather. But they’ll follow the same bones.

Each one will start with anchoring into our hearts. Why? Because:

• the heart is what’s been left behind as we’ve slowly been disconnected from our human-creature selves (heart is what creatures have, not machines);

• the heart is the balance point between our human experience and our souls or our spiritual experiences;

• the heart also carries the right frequency to heal, repair, transmute.

Bottom line? It’s the foundational piece.

Before my teachers allowed us to begin learning the protocols to work with clients, we spent an entire year learning to anchor ourselves in our hearts. It’s the piece I’ve come to see as missing from many modalities (including holistic healing modalities that don’t happen in apprenticeship models or with an anti-colonial approach) and also what activist communities and other ancestral skills communities miss, too.

Plus, the word “courage” has its roots in both Latin and Proto-Indo-European words for “heart”.

So we begin to embody this new paradigm by rooting into the source of our courage. And we trust the heart to guide us somewhere we’ve never been before. The heart carries wisdom beyond our human wisdom and refuses to align with agendas for specific outcomes. Instead, it holds the possibility of better outcomes than we can imagine… for the highest good of all.

From the heart, we can weed out noxious patterns and transform our relationship with the inevitable messiness of the human experience.

In doing so, our inner work has the possibility to ripple outwards from us (on the energetic/ quantum level as well as through our physical actions, lived choices, and relationships). And we end with holding a loving, courageous frequency that can’t help but emanate out into the world around us.

The Practicalities:

You’ll probably feel like this gathering is a good fit for you if:

• you’re a sensitive, caring person who wants to help but doesn’t always know where to start or wants to merge your spiritual practice and your activism work;

• you’re on the side of humanity more than any one political party, celebrity, or big name (and you’re tired of “lone savior” narratives and waiting for heroes to emerge);

• you’re uninterested in placing all the blame for our collective moment outside yourself and are willing to look at the stuff that’s messy and painful;

• you want to feel empowered and connected to life and those around you more than you want to feel righteously indignant or helplessly a victim (though you’re welcome to bring those feelings in with you - we’ve all got ‘em);

• you believe in introspection, growth, and inner work but want it to have some actual impact on the world around you, not just leave you feeling (temporarily) better, removed from the mess of being human, or as a way of keeping yourself feeling broken and unable to be part of a solution;

• you’re willing to hold the tension that “love and light” and “thoughts and prayers” have become a tool often used to avoid taking action * and also * there’s a magnified, potent, effective power that comes from gathering and coalescing our intentions as a group and sending them out into the world (think about the monks and their walk for peace).

So if you’re down to gather in circle to:

practice re-aligning ourselves internally,

tend to the collective shadow as it lives in side of us,

and send that transmuted light out into the world on behalf of collective liberation and all creatures everywhere…

Where:

We gather online on Zoom.

When:

On the final Sunday of each month at 1pm ET (10am PT || 6pm UK time)

How long:

For 60-90min, depending on how large a group we have.

What’s Included:

We’ll follow the bones of:

• heart centering;

• group shadow work/ collective wound tending/ energy healing/ grief ritual;

• loving-kindness meditation on behalf of collective liberation and thriving for all Creatures everywhere.

While we’re doing this with a wider vision than our own individual wellness, you can most likely expect to leave feeling more grounded, centered, human, compassionate, nourished, and liberated yourself.

Towards the end of our time, each month I’ll offer a different call to action of some kind for things like: community care, calling politicians about something, donating to a grass roots cause supporting things like land stewardship, indigenous rights, or other human and humanitarian works, etc. These are not mandatory - just one more way of making love tangible, if you feel resourced enough and called to act.

There may also be a short plug at the end for some other ways to work with me but it won’t be more than 5min and, again, there’s no pressure.

** No replay recordings will be sent out, so please plan to attend live and have your camera on if you can.

Cost:

*FREE *

Come as you are. Bring your curiosity and your courage.