MORE THAN ONE STORY CAN BE TRUE AT A TIME

Colonization culture loves a binary.  Good vs. Evil, Right or Wrong, Us Against Them - where the winner takes all and the loser is killed, banished and/or utterly dehumanized.  This is what has been seeded into our consciousness.

• ... huge part of why it is so hard to back down/admit to being wrong etc

• Ditto that if your lived experience includes a lot of being told your feelings/experience aren't real

• See also:  Shame spirals
  

A lot of what I do is holding space for different stories to co-exist.  It becomes so much easier to understand and connect with someone else's experience when you are not feeling pressured to validate your own.

TRUST DYNAMICS & HEALING WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF COMMUNITY

• the flow of trust withing personal relationships <<>> community relationships

• Conflict takes place within the context of relationships - healing should too!!

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• ... Where does that leave us when we are often building alliances under survival mode and constant vigilance - how does that shape the foundations of our relationships as a community?  (back to that us vs them binary)

PATHWAYS

• How do you find your way from a creative space to a conflict space and back again?

• What skills have you learned through creative practice that can help you in conflict? 
  

MY FIRST MEDIATION....