Of course the call to service is beautiful and important, but in many ways it is even more important to be aware of the ways in which our cultural values of control, action, and progress can be an imposition on those we seek to serve.
These prompts are here to help us all explore more attuned ways of serving. Often, deep, respectful service can look like doing nothing more than listening, tracking our judgments, being open, receptive, and attuned to when and how it is most appropriate to act.
How to wait to share your gifts: Working on tuning into your body to understand where the desire to share is coming from. The desire to be in community or to feel useful is a beautiful one, but it is equally as important to be grounded in what is practically needed in the situation. We will have a few containers during the time in the jungle to talk about what is arising for you. Outside of these meetings, we suggest waiting until you are home from the jungle for 6 weeks before you come forward with any suggestions
The journey into the Yawanawá territory is a precious opportunity to gather and connect. We are in a time of “the great turning”, and are being pulled into greater connection with ourselves, our fellow humans and the Earth. Our collective healing flows from our personal healing. This is a lifelong journey to shed the conditioning of competition, supremacy and suffering that act as barriers. We can “call each other in” by holding each other accountable and reminding each other of a more connected way of being.
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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” These words were used by Lilla, Aboriginal Elder