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Join us this August for a Healing Centered Retreat
Are you feeling burnt out and craving a different kind of offering for early childhood educators? Are you feeling like you still need rest even after a day off? Are you confused about how to support autistic children in a way that feels good at the end of the day? Relational health science tells us…
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Love, Grief, & Surrender
While I was at a retreat last year someone shared an idea that has been gaining attention – that love is grief of the future and grief is love from the past. These two intense experiences turn out to be partners and collaborators – both sweet and painful – in a journey towards healing. The…
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Clarify
What a disorienting moment it is in education. How are you doing? Staying connected is of utmost importance right now, and we’re offering a space for us to be present with each other amidst the unknowns. Please join us this Monday, April 21, for “Holding space for fears, feeling into potential” a community gathering event.…
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How are your ancestors with you today?
At this time of year in the northern hemisphere many cultures experience the veil between life and death to be at its thinnest. Día de los Muertos, Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain – while they are very different traditions – are just a few examples of this. For me this raises the question, How…
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Death
As the seasons change and the leaves begin to fall off the trees, death has made her presence known by consistently reminding me that things must come to an end in order to make space for the new. For a long time I believed that everything-all the time-could be possible if we systemized our lives…
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Waves
Back in November we wrote: “Healing centered approaches are surfacing in little pockets, and in different places. As we connect with others we find there’s both inspiration and disequilibrium about what the next steps in the movement should be for each of us. How do we change a non-functioning system, or build a new one,…
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Peri-Culmination
As educators (or those who are education-adjacent) many of us are coming together around a culmination of some kind right now. Last week I had the opportunity to see some of my students walk across the stage in cap and gown. Some of them were on the dean’s list, some of them had to retake…
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Ruptures in the midst of Spring Blooms
Around my 5th Spring in New England I started to notice how much I disliked April. I know April showers bring May flowers, but I grew up in the desert where showers come in February and March comes with the beginning of blooms and a deliciously warm April. Thank God for work from home life…
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Schools of Fish
I recently connected with my goddaughter about what it’s like to experience school with an ADHD brain. She doesn’t have a diagnosis, but it’s possible she will so I wanted her to know that there is nothing wrong with her brain, in fact many ADHD-ers are also gifted. Schools are often designed with one kind…
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Isorings
The end of December into January was a time of rest and retreat for Engage. We took time away from email and planning to be with our dear ones and our selves. It’s easy to forget how important this practice of rest is, but it is reminiscent of the special role that isorings play in…