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Our Mission
The mission of sense8 is to support people who are wanting to grow more nourishing ways of being, and build better relationships with self and others. We are committed to contributing to the global currents of change for radically transformed societies. We do this by bringing creative and science-informed somatic practices to individuals, organizations, and institutions. Our offerings and programs engage the body-mind-spirit (emotions, sensations, physiology, story, and energy - individual and collective), in order to enable repair, transformation, and regeneration.
We believe that all of us, when we are not stressed out of our gourds, are organically creative, curious, and connected. We share a vision of radically transformed societies in which social rules and structures actually provide containers and occasions for all to be creative, curious, and connected in their own fluid ways. And like the wild and wide diversity of life in this planet, we imagine there will be many different ways in which communities and people become alive and function. We envision practices of repair and healing of transgenerational and current violences enacted by indivudals and institutions enacting oppressive social structures. We envision, an end to the very structures and practices reifying oppressive practices of settler-colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and rapacious corporate capitalism. AND. We also envision, radically new ways of being together - many different ways of creating, loving and connecting - many different ways of being responsible to the interconnected nature of life and societies. And enjoying the abundant harvests that are possible when we live in right-relationship with all people.
Our Vision
Our Values
Life is a
Journey
In this way, life invites us into learning. We are invited to re-member forgotten fragments of ourselves and our lineage, regenerate after storms, reframe stories that animate our lives, relationships and bodies, and re-imagine who we are becoming.
Relational
We are all part of the whole - literally composed of stardust and the droppings of earthworms, interconnected through the water and minerals of life, and animated by the air we share and breathe. None of us are alone - yet socially constructed stories absorbed unconsciously through family and institutional dynamics would teach us that we are on our own.
- And Yet - there's a part of you that knows this is a fallacy.
We are entering an age where we all are invited to learn how to be a good relation while also being true to ourselves. Embedded within this value are the practices of community of care and kindness, agency and sovereignty, cooperation and co-creation with transparency and tending to trauma and transgressions with grace and generosity while holding ourselves accountable and responsible.
Creativity
We believe that the natural state of all beings is one of creativity and play - these are states where our innate curiosity and joy can lead us into the unknown and emerge with new-to-us creations. It takes skills, practice and knowledge to cultivate the conditions that support sustained creative states. We, at SENSE8, are committed to cultivating these conditions: radical rest, tending each other in mutual care and aid, learning to practice witness, learning to practice repair and regeneration, responsible to interfering with the social "lies with teeth" (Resma Menakeem), practice in ritual and ceremony, and learning to experience joy and pleasure together.
Shining
All of us shine in our own way - when we are anchored in who we belong to, the land and waters that raised us, and stories that animate us. Shining is a state of being when our being is calibrated to our roots, and allows us to see, know, and be true. In this state, our gifts flow forth, we relate from a grounded place, and we can create and co-create with clarity and joy. We cultivate this state through our own practices.
Finding
the AND
If there is one principle that most consistently guides us it is this one - always finding the AND. For example: I can be sad AND joyful, excited AND nervous, fearful AND committed, accomplished AND exhausted. There are always multiple truths and experiences of one event AND these are occurring within the framework of the dominant social matrix. Here we are always learning to be in the jazz of it all - attuning to the collective rhythms and cycles of life, amplifying the middle tones of anchors and nourishment, and listening for the top notes of bursts & flourishes by co-creatives. We are ready to witness, dance with, and offer our own riff in this melody of life.
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