Lived Experience Knowledge
Blog by Valerie There is immense power in embodying healing through lived experience. As I work in facilitating & healing spaces, I feel it is important to be open about parts of my journey. If you want to learn more…
Category Culture
Central Myths
Blog by Valerie The human mind is a story-creating meaning-making machine, and as we get to know our minds better, we uncover beliefs, values, and stories underlying our thoughts and behaviours, and ultimately defining our paths in life. We may…
Jews’ Indigenous Roots
Blog by Valerie Lately I have been working to ground some of my Jewish wounds through relating biblical stories to Indigenous cultural stories of that part of the world; my own intuition, lived experience and knowledge of archetypes and patterns…
Cry of the White fella
A poem by Lukas Our position of dominance hides our shame and pain. I see those white fellas who show up with their engrained sense of superiority manifesting as ignorance, hate and prejudice. I see saviour types who subjugate their…
Two-Eyed Seeing: Gift & Privilege
Blog by Valerie The word gift has a very interesting etymology. I remember being surprised as a child to learn that Gift meant ‘poison’ in German. Turns out it means ‘poison’ in modern Dutch, Danish and Swedish too. The story…
Facts in Right Relationship
Blog by Lukas Across the globe an increasingly dominant worldview sees reality as ultimately physical. There are various expressions of this worldview in Western philosophy, including: logical positivism, empiricism, physicalism, scientism, naturalism and causal closure. I would sum them up as follows: the only true reality…
Our Trickster Nature
Blog by Valerie Why does a crocodile hide underwater and then snap at prey (fight)? A sparrow swoop into a tree when there’s rustling on the ground nearby (flight)? A dog play dead (freeze)? Because trickiness is a part of…
Toilet paper wars (from the Western worldview)
Blog by Lukas The odds of any one individual getting the Corona virus are so far quite low, and the probability of severe symptoms or death even lower. Making individual decisions based on this low probability is therefore, on some…
Our Primal Nature
Blog by Valerie Right now it’s easy to feel survival fears, to observe deeply ingrained panic behaviours and to hear people talk about ‘these strange times.’ I understand the sentiment, but I think it’s strange that so many of us…
Alienation & Judgment
Blog by Valerie I was perhaps one of Earth’s most alienated of beings, and by that I mean that I did not sense belonging here. My cultural context was such that I had no sense of relationship with my earthly…