How can I, we, unlearn, heal. To allow a better world to emerge from the pain and despair.To not run but slow down, to look into the darkness eyes, to open hands and heart to what is here now and wants to happen through me, life.

Life is wild. It will never be tamed

"I am the source, the angel and the facilitator of my own liberation" (from a Rev Angel Kyodo Williams live talk)

"What would change if we took seriously the consideration that the world is alive, that we derive our being from a never-static, ever-changing field of entanglements, and that we are not the center of the universe?" (BAYO AKOMOLAFE)

WE shared visions and teachings after the journey.

WE took this journey to the non and more than humans world, in the invisible world, to meet with an animal form WE have intimacy with, WE are bound with. 

This animal spirit can support us to manifest greater vision and give us guidance and strength. 

If Social Justice and Climate Justice are one same justice, there is a tremendous gift in the possibility to shape shift and embody the animal spirit energy to guide us in a more integral perception of our world and reality. WE can FEEL the interconnectivity and right relationship.

If WE want to extend our perception of justice to all the Living; clouds, rocks, animals, plants, rivers, mountains, tree people, 4 legged people, 2 legged people, all people, without grabbing what is not my language neither my culture, WE can surrender to a greater mystery that animate all there is and journey in dream land, spirit realm, to dream with the animals, the plants, the soul of the world. 

Those dreams, shared between species, are important. They allow us to keep the conversation alive. If this conversation dies, we die with it, as all is one and all is connected.

When we go in a time of deep changes and transformation, the world becomes unstable, what was once stable is no longer behaving as it is supposed to. Polar bears, ancestors of the land, rain, sun, fire, they suddenly turn into wild instability. WE call it the mythic time of unstable form of reality. 

It is a time where it gets difficult to go dream with the rain or the polar bear, because they no longer do what they have been doing since ever- since the world stabilized. Now great transformation is happening. WE are not sure how the conversation is evolving, all is changing, this is why it is so crucial WE keep going to the meeting spot, where realities and worlds are penetrating one another, in the in-between space of queer nature, in the space of the undefined and all potentiality, this is where WE feed the conversation.

On that day WE met several animal spirit helpers and guides.

Land based, Nature based, Eco based, spirituality might be key to support and guide us for this Time of great turning. 

Michele notes form our meeting: 

 Meeting #4:

Deer: Gentleness. Agility. Joy. No need to fear predators.

Alligator (a substitute for Crocodile): Integration

Carine’s animal: Wholeness, bringing the whole self to practice, process, etc.

(Graham Harvey – An Animist Manifesto)

On the Full moon of July 2021, we held a healing ceremony with a group of 14-15 human people.

We spent time the day before connecting with nature spirits, we went on a walk to call in a spirit who would like to come and say something during the next evening ceremony.
The second day, all morning was dedicated to mask making. The afternoon we decorated the mask. In the evening we gathered in Circle and called the spirits for our ceremony of possession.
We charged the masks with strength to animate them and we put them on. We called spirits and the ceremony began...

Everytime a spirit wanted to talk, the person would stand up and come into the center so everyone could hear the message channeled through her/his/their body.

We embodied the Nature Spirits and we invited them to talk through us.

A storm started and lightnings were giving a rhythm to the spirits appearances.

It is a Healing to be washed by the rain.
This ceremony is a "whole relations" healing.

You find 2 testimonies of the ceremony here on the padlet, in french.
Thank you-Merci

Once again, with this bio, I’m asking myself who I am in a way that can be put into words. I’m evolving, queering, and seeing beyond the physical world more and more. 

In this body, my ancestors appear to come mostly from the lands currently known as England, Wales, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. And I can feel that my ancestors, siblings, and Self are also the trees, microbes, fungi, critters, and energies of all sorts. I am an earth creature and spirit being, and in 2021 am 42 years into being racialized as white and benefitting from false hierarchies even as I work to unlearn this socialization and support movements centered on collective liberation through healing and re-balancing power in ways that embrace our diversities and celebrate honest, authentic relational care. 

At this time, I live on the lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Ute, and Sioux peoples and nations known colonially as the Denver, Colorado, USA region. Many consider these lands unceded due to the coercive, illegitimate nature of the treaties.  I practice and seek ways to shift into right relationship with the indigenous stewards of these lands, with the land itself, with my own ancestors, and with the more-than-human world. 

My lived experiences include being a racialized white, genderqueer, neuroqueer (neurodivergent), relationally queer, mixed-class, trauma survivor who is letting go of old stories, aiming for relational honesty, and nurturing a revolutionary imagination that is so powerful that we can start integrating it into our current relationships right now. 

At this time, I work as an interconnectedness therapist, facilitator, and consultant focused on providing care that attends to both personal and collective liberation. In addition to individual healing and empowerment sessions, I facilitate “Interconnectedness Practice Circles” in partnership with the human and more-than-human participants that join these circles. I have found that healing and empowerment work is most expansive when facilitated in partnership with Nature/Spirit. 

Given my specialization in working with complex trauma with a transpersonal lens for over a decade, I’ve learned that honestly attending to systemic and relational power dynamics is key to our transformation individually, socially, and collectively. I’m grateful to be a part of the Embodied Social Justice program and this small group project for the past few months, as I believe learning and growing together is key to our ongoing transformation.  

Here are some of the words that continue to flow through me (and deep thanks to all the beings and energies that support this flow and join in practice):

"We are an ecosystem. May we practice deep relational care."