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The ANS has the ability to bring calm, to spontaneosly engage with others, and to navigate threat responses through social cues.
Neuroception distinguishes safe from dangerous
Working with our hands allows for thought
Working with your hands makes things happen in your brain
When we really face the weight of our current reality, we have to begin to ask what comes next. It creates new opportunities to make a new world.
When we make art, we are exploring alternative realities.
Attuned relationships include rupture and repair
Groundwork is a way of “showing up” - even without feeling like it.
Seasons aligned with stages of maturity & creativity
Being a maker is about collaborating with reality
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1 — Creativity & Curiosity
1 — Creativity & Curiosity
3 — Mental & Emotional Well-being
3 — Mental & Emotional Well-being
4 — Physical Health
4 — Physical Health
5 — Intentional Living
5 — Intentional Living
6 — Writing & Reading
6 — Writing & Reading
7 — Teaching
7 — Teaching
8 — Nervous system
8 — Nervous system
9 — Interactions
9 — Interactions
10 — Research
10 — Research
This is the safest, most dangerous time
Some will cite improvements in life expectancy estimates, crime rates, health measures and more to argue that we are living in a relatively safe time and argue that people should not be worrying. But this ignores the lived experience of people, which is directly informed by COVID, political news, constant mass shootings, and more.
People aren’t safe if they don’t FEEL safe.
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Seeds 1Professor cited in “Is this the end of reading?”
He wanted to understand a seeming paradox: Even though we live in a relatively safe time — with life expectancies steadily increasing — young people are consumed with worry and see risks and existential danger all around them. (View Highlight)