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.
Redefining Politics + Citizenship
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.
It starts within you
Mind
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.
Body
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.
Soul
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.
“The way begins ‘in here’ as we work on reconciling whatever divides us from ourselves — and then moves out with healing power into a world of many divides, drawing light out of darkness, community out of chaos, and life out of death.” – Parker Palmer