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“Liberated relationships are one of the ways we actually create abundant justice, the understanding that there is enough attention, care, resource, and connection for all of us to access belonging, to be in our dignity, and to be safe in community”
― adrienne maree brown
My name is Kara Michelle Pierson, creator of Lilac & Indigo LLC and The Well’s first Wellspring Fellow. You can hear more of my story in this month's Story From The Well.
I’m writing this on the heels of the insurrection of January 6, 2021. What we witnessed was the result of white-body supremacy, privilege, and terror. We, as a country, keep trying to return to “normal” to recreate what once was. But after almost a year of a global pandemic, a raise in consciousness about racial inequity, and an emotionally draining election cycle, it’s clear that we need to be building something new. But before that happens, we need to pause and examine ourselves. I believe we need to rest (especially those of us in black bodies) and tend to the trauma that we are experiencing and have been experiencing for hundreds of years. Learning how to tend to ourselves allows us to show up fully in community with and for each other. There is restorative justice that needs to happen. There is healing in our bodies that needs to happen. Then we can start rebuilding something new.
My experience with the Well’s True Body Leadership Training Program reminded me that safe relationships are healing, inviting people to co-create the container encourages agency, and that our bodies carry wisdom rooted in our own experiences and the experiences of our ancestors. We don’t exist in a vacuum and we don’t have to.
I look forward to helping expand the way in which participants who interact with The Well experience care and belonging.
I look forward to helping build community with you.
I look forward to learning, imagining, and co- creating alongside you.
-Kara Michelle Pierson
The Wellspring Fellow
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Have your own Mindful Music Moment with Puccini's Humming Chorus, led by Stacy Sims here. |
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Virtual Support for Mindful Music Schools
Last semester, we worked with Cincinnati Public School Academy of World Languages to create a Schoology video playlist for daily videos of the weekly Mindful Music selections led by Stacy Sims. This has helped schools support their remote learning students continue to connect with Mindful Music.
Our Mindful Music program is available at any time of the year. Learn more about our program and let us help you find a daily ritual of calming and centering for all.
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At our True Body New Year session, we co-created an imagined altar, offerings gifts to each other for the new year, illustrated here by Corinne Lerma.
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An Invitation to the Lighthearted Deep Work
True Body Project's Mindful Embodiment Masterclass begins a new six-month cohort this March! Join other wise and curious individuals to explore somatic experiencing, empathy, mindfulness, attunement and space holding.
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Rana lives and works just outside of Washington D.C. as a public servant in the federal government.
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| Three Sisters: On Breaking Wide Open
"The tool of racism as a way to maintain power and authority and control in this country is not going to be fixed by saying nice words, so let's get to work" One of our Three Sisters, Rana Dotson, sat down with us the day after the insurrection at the Capitol to talk about her feelings, observations and hopes for the long rebuild for our country.
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Kara's mission is to make space for individuals to recharge and reaffirm through rest and creativity.
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Healing Happens in Relationships
This month's Story From The Well comes from our first Wellspring Fellow, Kara Michelle Pierson. Kara shares her journey from being overworked and stressed to bringing healing to the public in her work with Lilac & Indigo LLC.
Join Kara weekly for her Midweek Exhale offerings. Take a break to recenter through somatic experiencing, mindfulness and QiGong posturing and breathwork. Sign up here.
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Lorena is a writer and facilitator of creative writing through her business VERBAL in Brasília. |
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True Body Cohort Feature: Lorena Santos
"Throughout my life, I had nourished mind and soul but forgot an important dimension, the body." Lorena is a writer, facilitator and business owner living in Brasília. She joined the virtual True Body cohort this year.
Read more about Lorena here. And look out for more True Body Cohort features to come!
Want to join our next Virtual Leadership Training? We will start up again in March. Learn more here.
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