Community Healing
We live in a structure where we hyper fixate on individuality, self led work and self help. The inter generational, collective and cultural trauma has made us believe that we need to look out for ourselves as nobody else will. The collective work is looked at as something after we have perfected the image of being healed. Where did we forget the social beings that we are the beings that create space for each other to exist, to breathe, to be, to create, to explore, to experiment, to learn, to release, to express, to relate, to witness, to heal, to love, to grieve, to be grateful, to pray, to connect, to ground, to rest, to regenerate, to grow, to bloom, to cry, to laugh, to celebrate, to dance, to shake and so many sacred rituals in between.
When a community, a collective comes together with an intention for harmony with each other for each other, that is when we witness the power of collective energy. The intention to just hold capacity for difference makes such a huge impact on how we function this relationship as a group. The community where there is space for relationships with the self and other to thrive, and not dominate one over the other. A community that connects with nature, knowing the greater community that nature is for us as humans here and not something we just extract from.
In my healing journey, community has been the space, the co-regulating space that we need as living beings. That community has sometimes been nature, sometimes a group of people, sometimes just my room with plants, and sometimes my family and friends. The relationship and connection that binds us with our community is like a ground that holds us and lets us sink deep within ourselves.
Reflection on Community Healing:
– Safety With Co- Regulation
– Space to Release and Relate to Trauma Stored
– Emotional Expression In Authentic Space
– Relate to Shame Within, with Compassionate Space
– Energy Regeneration
– Psychological space to express authentic truth
– Space for Difference
– Authentic Belonging
– Creative Expression
– Movements with Community
– Present Sinking with Community
– Healing Space
The time where we are today, we as people strive for community, and this community often comes at the cost of losing part of ourselves or bulldozing our reality and truth, and to the body this does not feel like belonging and being held, it feels the opposite, it feels threatening. A community that has a place for messiness to flow with every emotion embodied and safe space expanding, is where we thrive. This is how we blend into each other, not where we lose ourselves but where we get into more tune with ourselves and to all around.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Do I believe that collective impacts the individual experience?
Hyper Independence is rewarded in a culture that extracts profits from it, but our well being and harmony is based on our collective experience as a whole. Our nervous systems are intertwined with not only the nature and things around us but also the humans around us. We may not tap into this but it is always a part of our experience.
Do we as a collective share the field of trauma and healing as well?
We share the intergenerational trauma and collective systemic trauma that runs through our bones and blood, but it also means we share the wisdom of healing within us and as a collective when we come together as a community we bring forth the hands for healing.
What is the reason to connect as a collective?
The connection is present but the process of relating is missing when we start this, we experience the connection that binds us together as a community.
What do we learn in a community?
We learn in a community all the ways we can heal and transform and find safety with other bodies. We also learn in real time about our triggers, our stored trauma, cultural trauma, land trauma, sexuality, and experience what sensations arise in each of us individuals and how it guides us as a collective onto a path of healing.
Do I feel into my body in the presence of other bodies?
We feel into our bodies consciously so we can connect to the sensations that arise within, that directs us to relate to the being in front of us. The part of me that had trauma living in it couldn’t find safety with other bodies but relating to this part helped me regenerate the capacity
to relate to the other, and when a community comes together to experience we witness its ripple in the bodies of our own and the ones around us.