Movement and Mutual Systems
A call for slow systems, grounded practices, collaboration and conversation.
Movement and Mutual Systems
I have been paying close attention to the systems I’m part of. I’m noticing where energy leaks out, where old habits like urgency, dependency, fear, often still shape my days and relationships. I’m noticing what feels alive. Small shifts, conversations, the subtle strength of a nervous system coming back online.
I’ve been thinking about attunement as a practice. Tuning to what’s happening in my own body. Tuning to what’s needed in a group, a project, a moment. Tuning to the larger economic, ecological, relational shifts unfolding around us. There’s a lot that’s unclear right now. Attunement, for me, also means noticing the felt sense of time. How to measure the sensation of the whole planet with the pace of a day, and the slowness of time when it comes to building trust, to organize, to change the course of culture.
I’m in a season of reimagining the structures I work within and for. I want systems that feel human and spacious. I want to build things that support care—not extract labor or talent. I want money to circulate with intention. I want rigor and effort towards a better plan. I want to work with people who are asking similar questions about sustainability, mutuality, and how we stay resourced without burning out.
Consider this a ringing of the tuning fork, a quiet call for those who are thinking in the same systems, or can expand my own thinking to new evolutions and iterations of the questions I'm asking. If any of what I’m naming resonates, write to me. Even a simple exchange can be generative. I’m craving collaboration, and shared devoted time to being curious about resourcing artists and practice and this kind of thinking, as a forethought, not a sideline.
More and more, I come into a renewed understanding that the felt sense of my body is in direct relationship with the earth and environment around me. To feel my spine. To look at a tree. To be looked at by a tree. And to feel the just how sovereign each individual cell in nature truly is.
I see large-scale regenerative projects that include eco-somatic frameworks, but what I long for is the art inside it all. The work that people make, of themselves and this life. I want art present in the regenerative revolution and woven into how we tend to the planet and to one another.
I want to experience distributed leadership, mutual responsibility, and collective building toward a livable future. And I want to be, even in the smallest way, a part of supporting the not-so-simple act of helping each other feel the experience of being in a body.
Big ideas. Daily practice. They often feel worlds apart, and I’m convinced that shifting how I am with the world is part of how the world changes. I’m heartbroken by how often these conversations are kept separate. If there’s a world where artistic, somatic, ecological, regenerative, distributed, community-building efforts are already converging, particularly in the NC southern region, but also yes, global. Please point me toward it. I want to learn how to be a part of this movement. And if you want to have even one conversation about any of this, I’m here.
I believe this work begins with a commitment to iteration and practice. A willingness to come together, in the smallest of ways, to be in nature and to organize with and within each other.