BONUS: Imagination, escapism, and disorientation in stretching alternative possibilities
Jan 3, 2024
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Join Gabes Torres, Anisa Sima Hawley, and Kamea Chayne as they discuss imagination, escapism, discomfort, and transformation. They explore diverse modalities in trauma processing, embracing discomfort as a catalyst for growth, and reimagining healing and community infrastructures. Delve into the intersection of capitalism, escapism, and imagination, and the importance of co-creating new systems for collective healing and sustainability.
Engage creatively with nature elements for deeper connection and activism.
Challenge conventional healing by reconstructing community infrastructures and co-creating new systems.
Deep dives
Benefits of Engaging in Alchemize Program
Participants in the Alchemize program have reported feeling deeply connected to the world through practices that involve conversing with nature elements like lichen and honeybees. The program has provided a grounding space that allows individuals to approach activism with calmness, compassion, and effectiveness. It offers a transformative experience beyond traditional workshops, encouraging participants to engage creatively with various topics.
Exploring Alternative Modes of Engaging with Content
The podcast delves into the limitations of intellectualizing and reasoning when dealing with trauma and emphasizes the importance of involving senses, imagination, and storytelling in healing practices. By moving beyond traditional talk therapy approaches, the program seeks to engage participants in more expansive and creative ways of processing their experiences. It encourages exploring various aspects of human existence, such as senses and imagination, to tap into a fuller human experience beyond logic and theory.
Challenging Notions of Healing and Reconstruction
The conversation challenges conventional views on healing by questioning the focus on symptoms and instead advocating for a deeper understanding of the root causes of individual and collective wounds. It promotes a decolonial approach to healing that emphasizes reconstructing community infrastructures and co-creating new systems. The program aims to provide resources for imagining and building alternative natural systems, encouraging participants to move beyond dismantling past structures toward actively engaging in reconstruction and co-creation.
This is a behind-the-scenes conversation with Gabes Torres, a contributor and the program advisor of alchemize, and Green Dreamer's team members Anisa Sima Hawley and Kamea Chayne. We explore the themes of imagination, escapism, dissociation, and discomfort when it comes to dreaming, sensing, relating, and becoming otherwise.
Enroll in alchemize through January 12th, 2024: www.greendreamer.com/alchemize
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