Let me offer you ten things you can do right now, or within the next twenty-four hours, to start to align yourself with the power and hope of Sacred Activism. The first six will invite you into deep, nourishing, connection with your spirit; the last four will help you...
This seminar brings up the need to improve liberation struggles through collaborations between experienced activists and researchers within the academia. One way this is happening already is through "resistance studies", an emerging field of relevance for liberation...
Ed Tick, Ph.D. and John Becknell Ph.D. discuss why they use the archetypal image of the “warrior” in their work with Military, Veterans, and First Responders. Tick and Becknell engage the term “warrior” to distinguish the archetypal role of those who dedicate...
We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people - we must examine privilege and power in our relationships with our children, the world’s most vulnerable citizens and embrace chaos in efforts to allow trust-based practices to emerge. We can do...
In recent weeks, reporters, activists, and others have drawn parallels between the global pandemic and the climate crisis. It seems early to say, but we can sense that the two problems are more related than we think, as they are both challenges that we all must face...
Silver linings are hard to come by, but maybe this could be one. With the cataclysmic coronavirus upon us, it is just the tiniest bit possible that, in terms of child development, something good could come of it: A way to press the reset button on child anxiety. Yes,...
What should we do if we don’t wage war? First, we should try to understand it.In states of threat and high alert, we want to find “the enemy” and vanquish that enemy. That is one of the reasons why humans have almost always been at war since we have been on earth (see...
We are humans relearning to wash our hands. Washing our hands is an act of loveWashing our hands is an act of careWashing our hands is an act that puts the hypervigilant body at ease Washing our hands helps us return to ourselves by washing away what does not serve....
There was a time when I believed that righteous superiority was a valid position to hold. Now, I realize that it is nothing more than a symptom of the same disease that forms every other type of elitism that has plagued our world for millennia. Life is full of...
Dear White People, For as long as I can remember, I have always been white. Like you. I just didn’t know it. Born in the bipolar Nigerian city of soaring skyscrapers and sprawling slums, Lagos, where the sun sometimes forgot to dim its fierce heat, I grew up thinking...
