Vision and Foundational Elements of Embodied Witnessing
Vision:
A world which reflects harmony and natural interconnectedness.
As we inhabit our bodies with spaciousness, we feel our natural interconnection within ourselves and with each other. We feel how the world is embedded within us, and how we belong in the world.
Embodied witnessing connects us with love.
Embodied witnessing connects us with love.
Mission:
To share and support development of embodied witnessing compentencies in the the form of practices, trainings, and events.
Foundational Elements of Practice: Compassion ~ Alignment ~ Wholeness
Compassion, because the healing moment is the present moment: here and now through our embodied experience. We all experience gifts and vulnerabilities of being human. While turning towards what is present in a given moment is not always easy, compassion becomes natural as we settle our nervous systems, rest into our innate humanity and dignity with respect for what is emerging through us in this moment, including limits to our capacity such as overwhelm, confusion, or numbness. Compassionate presence is a resource that we can give and receive which supports all of us.
Alignment, because most of what troubles us human beings is related to trauma symptoms and related lack of development from not having the environment (in childhood, ancestrally, and/or ongoing) which supports well-being for us individually and collectively. We learn to adapt by shutting parts of ourselves down, disconnecting us from our true nature: our hearts, our innate embodied wisdom, and fresh insights, resulting in misalignment. The more misaligned and disconnected we are from ourselves, from each other, and from the natural world, the more vulnerable we are to ongoing trauma and the more rigid we may become as we rely on external structures (which likely have significant trauma embedded) in an attempt to stabilize ourselves. As we re-align with our inner integrity and mind-heart-body coherence, we tap into resourcing within us, interpersonally and interconnecting with nature.
Wholeness, because we have multiple channels of resource within us and through our bodies, our emotions, our thinking, and our essence. As poets and mystics have shared, the divine spark and creative impulse that is beyond simple description lives within us. In our intention to connect with the innate wholeness within each being, we enter in an ongoing process of awakening, discovery, and emergence that continually evolves through us, allowing us to gradually integrate what is unresolved from the past and to change how and what we see, opening new possibilities.
Alignment, because most of what troubles us human beings is related to trauma symptoms and related lack of development from not having the environment (in childhood, ancestrally, and/or ongoing) which supports well-being for us individually and collectively. We learn to adapt by shutting parts of ourselves down, disconnecting us from our true nature: our hearts, our innate embodied wisdom, and fresh insights, resulting in misalignment. The more misaligned and disconnected we are from ourselves, from each other, and from the natural world, the more vulnerable we are to ongoing trauma and the more rigid we may become as we rely on external structures (which likely have significant trauma embedded) in an attempt to stabilize ourselves. As we re-align with our inner integrity and mind-heart-body coherence, we tap into resourcing within us, interpersonally and interconnecting with nature.
Wholeness, because we have multiple channels of resource within us and through our bodies, our emotions, our thinking, and our essence. As poets and mystics have shared, the divine spark and creative impulse that is beyond simple description lives within us. In our intention to connect with the innate wholeness within each being, we enter in an ongoing process of awakening, discovery, and emergence that continually evolves through us, allowing us to gradually integrate what is unresolved from the past and to change how and what we see, opening new possibilities.
