In recent weeks, I’ve found myself in recurrent conversation and reflection about time, pacing, relationality, and flow. These threads have been weaving in reflexive navigation of collaborations and convenings alongside colleagues, friends, organizations, and processes. In these different spaces of encounter and exchange, I have noticed moments of profound resonance as well as deep dissonanceContinue reading “On Efficiency, Intentionality, and Care”
On Care: In Resistance and Refinement
To practice into care is to practice into paradox. Even as this practice embodies a remembrance of our inherent interconnection, so too does it elicit a confrontation with our edges. And in these murky spaces between connection and boundary, I find myself wading in inquiry. The questions are many, however two are feeling particularly stickyContinue reading “On Care: In Resistance and Refinement”
On Relationships, Care, and Accompaniment
I’ve been in a space of noticing, noticing again, and noticing more. This noticing centers around a persistent dynamic that seems to be expressed in social change or social purpose-oriented organizations. The specific social change spheres I am moving in currently are those of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and social healing and so these reflections willContinue reading “On Relationships, Care, and Accompaniment”
An Ever Unfinished Conversation
1. Fear thrives in separation and distance. 2. In the chasms that echo between the not-yet-met and the not-yet-known, imagination grows monsters. 3. To traverse these chasms that exist within us and between us, we must be open to encounter. 4. I am encountering fear. 5. Maybe it’s truer to say, I am encountering myself.Continue reading “An Ever Unfinished Conversation”
Practice is in the Return
There is a growing tide in the social change ecosystem that recognizes the role of self and collective care as necessary not only to support the sustainability of activists and social movements, but also to be in integrity with the vision and mission of the work. Such an approach to activism has been described inContinue reading “Practice is in the Return”
On Peacebuilding and Sandcastles
As a practice, I find curiosity about language to be very helpful, opening new pathways of understanding and orienting to what might often be unseen or unheard in the words we use. Sometimes this practice takes form through an exploration of etymologies, tracing the roots of words, the journey these collections of letters and syllablesContinue reading “On Peacebuilding and Sandcastles”
On Care and Dignity
I am in the early days of learning how to move and be differently in my body. I took a fall while rock climbing this week. Dropping to the earth from fifteen feet up a wall, my body tried to protect itself. I landed on my outstretched arm and dislocated my elbow. I remember beingContinue reading “On Care and Dignity”
On Patience, Perseverance, and Practice
Through the alchemy of forests and friendships, my love of rock climbing has recently been rekindled. I am a novice climber, delighting in and curious about all that this movement practice holds. In the short time that I have returned to climbing, I have found myself curious about the interplay it offers between patience, perseverance,Continue reading “On Patience, Perseverance, and Practice”
Fern, my teacher
In the short number of years I have experienced life, I have been very fortunate to learn from and alongside brilliant teachers. Ranging across the nexus of movement and embodiment, yoga and Buddhism, peace and justice, trauma and healing, the wisdom and guidance these teachers have offered has been formative in what and how IContinue reading “Fern, my teacher”
On Isolation, Identity, and Grief
The magnolia leaves outside the windows are strewn with pearls of water, traces of the afternoon’s last rain shower. The windows of the building across the courtyard stare blankly, some shuttered closed and others darkly gaping. Not two years ago, I sat daily on the balcony just beyond these same windows, orienting my body toContinue reading “On Isolation, Identity, and Grief”
Embody Peacebuilding 