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What If We Started with Who We Are? 🌱 Rise in Our Roots🌱
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Dear community I truly believe in a different, more interdependent approach to being and seeking social justice. What if we accepted ourselves as incredible human beings, capable of love, rather than judging our worth by our performance and outputs? I believe that could change how we show up, and perhaps even help change the world. Deep in my bones, I feel this begins with identity. When we reflect on who we are, together, we can become a powerful source of change and healing. And with everything, as my son reminds me, we have to have a little bit of play and humour too in the process too! 😁 I’m not saying Rise in Our Roots will heal everything... But...I have seen the approaches create movement: towards courage, acceptance and action rooted in a deeper sense of our own and collective identity. So, what if we slowed down together about who we are? Come join on the 24th September, and if you can't here's the simple yet really affective tools I know shift us as individuals and a collective. https://zerowastetickets.com/event/riseinourroots In case you can't join, here are the approaches we want to showcase. I know they provide us with a shift in our bodies, mind and emotions, which frees up space for courage and connection. Email anytime to know more about them. A somatic exercise covering...how has the past supported our current state, before supporting the generations to come, rooted in being part of nature. Reflecting how we are connected with spirit, mind, body and emotions, where we are strongest, where we might bypass? What have we forgotten from previous generations? And our internal dialogue, the monster within (which isn't really a monster..) Are they our worries/fears or have we inherited them? And by showing compassion and love for these internal dialogues, what might change? (Perhaps a long vacation on a cruise ship for the monster-within) Interconnectedness of who we are, and each circle being like water, without a true shape and ever changing Music And a song. Love to move to this as feels like a chapter of music, not just a song
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Mohammed Ali (The Innovation)
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