Creating a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

We envision a politics that affirms our interconnectedness and creatively engages differences in a way that builds beloved community. This will not be easy. It requires redefining what politics is and acknowledging how politics has wounded us. It requires that we name our longings and our fears. It requires that we root into who we are and who we are called to be.

Politics – good politics– takes practice.

And we must practice

For the sake of ourselves, our neighbors, and our country.

We need to redefine politics as how we engage with others in figuring out what our society will become. It is more than our partisan identify or policy preferences. It is the way we interact.

We need to understand how politics has wounded us. We must understand the relationship between politics and trauma so that we can begin to heal.

We must root into who we are and who we are called to be before we move outward. We need spiritual practices that heal our wounds and connect us to the wisdom within and beyond us.

Engage the heart as you engage politically

It starts within you

engage the mind as you heal your political wounds

Learn more about the science of trauma to understand why politics is inherently triggering and why the current political environment feels especially unsafe. Name what has wounded you, so that you can move beyond it.

Engage the body in healing your political wounds.

Trauma impacts the body and our healing must begin there. Explore practices that bring us back to ourselves physiologically and spiritually so that we can be present as engaged citizens.

Trauma severs our connection with others. Repair that connection by rooting into your beliefs about human dignity, human connection, and that which transcends our differences.

Politics is Hard. But Together We Can Change It.

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