In this audio recording I share how I’m making sense of these times that we’re living in. I share the opportunity I see to use collective healing as a tool to facilitate the paradigm shifts we need to address global issues. My exploration is rooted in the question: “What can we take from what we know about individual healing and apply it to the collective?” Share what you think in our free online community.

An awakening process is happening for many people around white supremacy and racism: for some white people, waking up to the reality of systemic racism for the first time; for other people a further waking up to the reality that our system can’t reform itself; and for others it’s about shepherding the awakening of others. Wherever you are, thank you for showing up to the work. Anti-racism resources.

Inspired by Brazilian journalist Eliane Brum’s article, "The Power of the First Generation without Hope." A reflection on the wisdom of “the catastrophe isn’t the end, it’s in the middle." How the climate crisis is cracking us wide open to new ways of being we know in our bodies. Climate Circle offerings.

What does abundance mean in the face of climate change, structural inequality, resource constraints, and histories of oppression? What does it look like in practice? What does thinking about sustainability through the lens of abundance have to offer us practically, theoretically, spiritually?

Moral injury is a first-cousin to trauma. How living and participating in a society that doesn’t reflect my values is a moral injury; and as we continue to see the effects of climate injustice that moral injury will grow.

A reflection on the technical field of international sustainable development. A technical field that values left brain intelligence over right brain intelligence. A call to expand the whole-systems approach to include multiple intelligences.

How our worldviews are at the crux of how we relate to the world, including natural resources. A reflection on water scarcity and the war in Yemen.

How do we make sense of climate change and systemic collapse? How do we allow that to land in our bodies in order to be more fully present with this moment in time? And how do we trust in the process going on? Because even though I don’t know how to make sense of climate change, I do know from my own healing journey that everything’s here for a reason and we must believe in that potential to actualize it.

How do people heal after a collective trauma as severe as genocide? My time with fellow feeler and healer, Innocent Nkurunziza, Inema Art Center in Kigali, Rwanda. The use of community to heal wounds, the guiding wisdom of one's unique path, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Reflections on the fractal of social power. Connecting the local to the global by looking at power dynamics within Riker’s Island, the world’s largest prison complex, and how that reflects dynamics in our geopolitical arena. The UN’s Sustainable Developments Goals.