Regenerative Relating

I was touched, in the conversation last class, to hear about how many of us were on some level besieged by this economy in an ongoing way.

It distressed me and at the same time, opened me to a deeper need for something more.

Soemthing more than healing work that does not address what we are still against on a broader level, even as we work through our own personal trauma.

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Claiming Our Place in this Movement

There is a strange kind of urgency that I feel about learning to live in this kind of trust.  

I very much want to live with the question of – what is truly the best place for me in this world? Why am I here and what is the best way for me to be alive today?

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Trauma Culture and Embodiment Activism

So today I am going to share some more limited thoughts about this instead.

The Beginnings of What it Means to be a Trauma Culture Activist.

For me the core issue here is a redefinition of both inner/spiritual work and social/environmental activism.

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Finding Voice – In the Face of Trauma Culture

Losing voice or losing a deeper part of our voice is an inherent part of trauma culture.

4 minute video excerpt from Feb 6th online gathering of “Coming Into Consciousness”.

How do we learn to go deeper as we learn to speak with each other? How do we make space within ourselves and in relationship to allow a deeper langauge to arise, so that we get underneath the ways that we often miscommunicate…

Bill St.Cyr

Finding Hope Amidst the Guns

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I want to start by saying that it doesn’t need to be so.

We have the power to change this culture. Yes, in the short run we are up against overwhelming odds and overwhelming obstacles.

But for many of us, we can take a breath into that overwhelm.

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Finding Voice – Speaking Truth to Trauma Culture

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I have over the last year, even begun to wonder if our language itself is traumatized.

To wonder if the words and speech that we use, is actually reflective of the trauma that is embedded in so much of the culture that we live in.

It would make sense, if you understand language and words not as something disembodied from experience but as vocalizations that are, at least meant to come from the heart and soul of who we are.

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Post 1: Trauma Culture – The Loss of Self as a Core Issue

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This state of separation is so embedded within our culture, that many of us do not even know, what it is that we have lost.

Our culture deeply obfuscates this loss in a million different ways, by taking what has been lost and externalizing it. So the deeper need for a healthy selfhood, that we each carry, becomes channeled toward attaining something outside of oneself.

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Post 2: An Exercise –

Out of Trauma and Into Embodied Consciousness

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This is a three part reflection related to that – holding acceptance and possibility in relationship to each other. It is one way to begin developing a practice of coming out of trauma culture/consciousness and coming into embodied consciousness.

1 – Close your eyes and just breath into the possibility of healing, of love or spirit or earth holding us all, of consciousness that is bigger than us, that can hold all of what we are going through and/or what we are all going through as a culture and society.

Just notice where you are drawn whether that is personal or social and take another breath and feel what it is like in your own body to be with this possibility….

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Some Past Writings

Dreaming as An Act

of Love and Defiance

For we tend to think of these two feelings and actions, as separate entities, each unto themselves...… [READ MORE]

More importantly, welcome to the movement against trauma culture and toward embodied consciousness.

There is a bridge that has begun to grow, between the world of inner practice and the world of social and environmental activism. A bridge that offers the possibility of transforming both of these worlds. A bridge that offers the possibility of transforming the broader culture of disembodiment and creating a culture of consent, nurturance and passion.

This site is my own offering toward that end and an invitation to join and co-create that world…