• Expand the Concept of Secure Attachment Beyond the Nuclear Family. Examine how secure attachment is cultivated not only through early caregivers but also through chosen families, friendships, communities, school, the media, the systems and structures of society and government, and global relational networks.

• Recognize the Influence of Structural Oppression on Attachment Experiences and Identity Formation. Identify how systems of racism, sexism, cissexism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism shape our internal working models of ourselves and the world around us.

• Acknowledge the Role of Ancestral, Cultural, and Ecological Bonds. Explore how connections to ancestors, spiritual traditions, cultural lineages, and the natural world contribute to a sense of security, belonging, dignity, and relational healing.

Explore the historical impact of colonization upon our relationship to the land.

Explore how colonization disrupted Indigenous land stewardship, replacing reciprocal relationships with exploitative and extractivistic systems and policies that prioritize profit over sustainability. Examine how this history continues to shape our personal connections and contemporary relationship to land, influencing our sense of belonging, identity, and access to natural spaces, often disconnecting us from traditional ecological knowledge and practices.

• Rest: A writing practice to land in this land.

• ReWilding the Soma: Cultivate embodied awareness of an expansive kinship network via somatic practices.

• ReMembering: Express personal and ancestral relationships with nature through a guided imagery exploration, with an open invitation for expression via writing, drawing, movement, song, or story.

Restore reciprocity and stewardship with the natural world.

Identify the impact of mass historical trauma and colonization upon our ancestors (human and non-human) and upon our rituals for remembering.

Examine how mass historical trauma and colonization disrupted ancestral traditions, severing cultural continuity and eroding rituals for honoring and remembering those who came before us. Consider how this disconnection has impacted our ability to engage in collective mourning, storytelling, and ceremonial practices that once sustained intergenerational healing and resilience.

• Rest: A writing practice to land in the lineage of your ancestor.
  

• ReWilding the Soma: A didactic and somatic exploration of an expanded conceptualization of ancestry, followed by a writing practice.

• ReMembering with Ritual: A didactic and storytelling approach to unpacking ancestral grief, with an open invitation for expression via writing, drawing, movement, song, or story.

Restore reciprocity and stewardship with those who have come before and those who have yet to come.

Explore how colonialism, imperialism, and modernity have suppressed, appropriated, or commodified cultural traditions, often distancing individuals and communities from their ancestral practices. Examine how these forces have reshaped our relationship to culture, influencing which rituals and traditions are preserved, adapted, or lost, and how this affects our sense of identity and belonging.

• Rest: A writing practice to name all the complicated emotions that surface around the fraughtness of reclaiming cultural heritage.
  

• ReWilding the Soma: A didactic, sensorial and somatic exploration of culture, followed by a writing practice.

• ReMembering: A visual storytelling approach to reclaiming culture, with an open invitation for expression via writing, drawing, movement, song, or story.

Restore balance.

Explore how colonialism, imperialism, and modernity have imposed rigid ideals of productivity and control over the body, shaping our relationship to rest, play, pleasure, and work through systems that prioritize efficiency over well-being. Consider how these forces, along with fatphobia and ableism rooted in colonial ideologies, have contributed to body shame, the moralization of health, and the devaluation of diverse body types, further disconnecting us from intuitive movement, sensual experience, rest, and joy.

• Rest: A didactic and storytelling approach to examining our relationship to rest.

• ReWilding the Soma: A didactic and storytelling approach to exploring the historical, structural, institutional contributors to disinhibiting our aliveness as a survival imperative, with invitation for expression via writing, drawing, movement, song, or story.

• ReMembering: Our birthright to artistic expression, embodied emotional expression, and pleasure, play, rest, joy and rage.

Restore dignity.

Examine how colonialism, imperialism, and modernity have imposed linear, clock-driven concepts of time that prioritize productivity and economic efficiency over cyclical, relational, and ancestral ways of experiencing time. Consider how this shift has disrupted our connection to natural rhythms, seasons, and ceremonial time, often creating a sense of urgency, disconnection, and burnout in our daily lives.

• Rest: A didactic and storytelling approach to cosmology.

• ReWilding the Soma: Provocations and invitations to imagine, to dream, to embody, to create.

• ReMembering: The wisdom of our Elders.

Restore perspective.

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