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10 Days to Activate Revolutionary Love
January 22–31, 2021
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Push
Teaching and practice with Valarie Kaur
Today we discover what it means to push in the context of loving ourselves. We’ll learn the elements of apology and explore the relationship between healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
The Four Elements of Apology (based on the work of V, formerly Eve Ensler)
- Self-interrogation. What made you or your perpetrator a person who became capable of committing this violation?
- A detailed account and admission of what you or your perpetrator has actually done. Details of what actually happened are critical.
- Feel and acknowledge what you or your victim felt and the long-term impact of the violation.
- Take responsibility for your actions; make amends and reparations where necessary to demonstrate the deep and profound experience that has made it impossible for you or your perpetrator to ever repeat the behavior.
Home Practice
1. What is the push you are ready for? Choose one option, then write out the apology letter:
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Option 1: To receive an apology. Write the apology that you never received. This is for you, not for them.
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Option 2: To give an apology. Write the apology you are ready to give. It could be to Mother Earth, a group, or a specific person.
2. In your wisdom journal, reflect on when is the time to breathe and when is the time to push. What sensations did you notice in your body as you engaged in the process of preparing to offer an apology OR writing the apology letter you have longed for yet never received? Were there times you wanted to stop the process? What kept you going?
Interview and live Q&A
with Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Susan Raffo: “Push”
To push is to choose to enter into grief, rage, or trauma as part of a healing process. Pushing requires us to discern the right times to breathe and rest, and the right time to push through painful sensations, emotions, and thoughts to birth new possibilities. Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Susan Raffo join Valarie to discuss how breathing and pushing can help us to heal and to transform as individuals, as communities, and as a society.
Moderated by: Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD
Session Highlights:
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Asking, “When is it time to breathe and rest, and when is it time to push for myself and others?”
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Investing in healing practices that best serve you
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Engaging in processes of accountability
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Exploring the links between inequalities, healing, and justice
Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Rev. angel Kyodo williams has been bridging the worlds of transformation and justice since her critically acclaimed book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, was hailed as “an act of love” by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker and “a classic” by Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, Rev. angel applies wisdom teachings and embodied practice, and is a leading voice for Transformative Social Change. Her newest work, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation, is igniting communities to have conversations necessary to become more awake and aware of what hinders liberation of self and society.
Susan Raffo
Susan Raffo is a writer, cultural worker, and bodyworker specializing in craniosacral therapy, Global Somatics, NARM, and more. She believes in the culture change approach to how bodies heal: supporting the slow speed of healing that supports the shifting or integrating of deeply held, often generational and historical patterns that manifest as pain, anxiety, stress, and disconnectedness. Susan was part of the People’s Movement Center and is soon launching a project focused on transforming the medical-industrial complex. She also works with REP, a Black-led, community-based crisis response model. The editor of Queerly Classed and coeditor of Restricted Access, Susan now writes through her website.
Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD (Moderator)
Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD, is the director of education at the Revolutionary Love Project and a full-time faculty member in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Canlas’s research and teaching focus on issues of educational equity and human rights. As a lifelong educator, Dr. Canlas believes that education should be directed toward learning to love and care for one another as we build systems where every person can live in wellness and dignity.
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Ultimately, we must simply go and “be” love, paraphrasing Teresa d’Kolkata.
Interesting perspectives on a principle I have been practicing for over 2 decades. It makes it possible not only for healing but for eliminating possibilities of future repetition.
What safeguards and procedures do you recommend for small support groups in such matters? How do you help people in the group understand what their role is and what their role is not with someone else’s story about needing to forgive and needing forgiveness? How do you avoid people in the group pressuring the two individuals to rush to reconciliation because it’s inconvenient for the rest of the group? It’s important that people understand that not everyone in these groups has the social and emotional maturity to navigate these situations. Have you published safeguards and procedures? Where can they be found?
Is there an interpreter or captioning to this? I would love to be included.Thanks!
This I do not understand either. I am also am hard of hearing. If this is an inclusive journey for change, then we hard of hearing people have been forgotten…Again! I truly hope that Ms Kaur will address this issue.
Part 11 Haiku:
https://susanspoetry.blogspot.com/2021/01/contact.html