Rewilding Gratitude
Rewilding Gratitude Run: A “Runsgiving” Experience
Join us for a sensory Forest Run and Walk to learn and experience how rewilding our gratitude can free us from toxic positivity and for a radical gratitude practice that is transformative, empowering, and truth-telling. Following the wisdom of the earth and of indigenous and decolonizing people and practices, this Rewilding Gratitude Run will bring joy and grief into synthesis and help us become courageous truth-tellers whose radical gratitude creates meaning and action to weave the lives, relationships, and world of mutual thriving, love, and care we were meant for.
More About This Event:
As we enter the holiday season, we are repeatedly told to give thanks, to be happy and merry, and to count our blessings. But what about those for whom this season also presents distinct challenges, and what does this look like in a world in which trauma, grief, and injustice exist, often particularly in connection with these holidays?
In a world that has foisted “toxic positivity” on us and told us this is gratitude, we are taking our gratitude back, learning from our earth and indigenous and First Nations people how to decolonize, reclaim, and “rewild” our gratitude so that it is radical, truth-telling, unashamed, courageous, and transformative. After all, we cannot transform unless we tell the truth.
We will gather together as a Rewilding Circle to connect with these questions, share with one another, and learn radical gratitude practices inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer and others to courageously and transformatively step towards decolonizing these holidays and rewilding ourselves, our relationships, and our intentional daily living as siblings and students of this earth. Then, we will go for a sensory Forest Run and Walk in which we will experience the gifts of love and wisdom from our earth that empower us and use movement as a somatic practice of journeying transformative and truthfully through a Radical Gratitude process. After our run/walk, we will conclude with a time of sharing story and a closing ritual to send us out as rewilded people and radical gratitude practitioners who transform life and world - together.
In this Rewilding Event, you will:
Discover the rewilding movement and how this provides wisdom for us as humans to guide us to our personal and collective liberation and transformation
Gain knowledge to discern between toxic positivity and gratitude and the role trauma plays in our experiences of toxic positivity and gratitude
Learn the practice of Radical Gratitude as a tool for honoring our own and others’ truth and using both joy and grief to guide us into meaningful and empowered transformative action towards liberation, decolonization, healing, and relationship
Honor and learn from the teachings of indigenous people to rewild our holiday observances
Create tools and resources to help yourself and others navigate the holidays in ways that are aligned with your truth and your vision of the good and that make space for joy and grief in liberating and meaningful ways
Engage in a powerful sensory Forest Run or Walk and discover how this practice empowers us, brings us into loving relationship with ourselves and the earth, and helps us work intentionally through the Radical Gratitude process
Enjoy deep connection with a brave space of like-hearted rewilders
DATE: Sunday, Nov. 6
TIME: 9:30am-12pm
WHERE: M8 Wellness (Forest Run route TBA)
WHAT TO BRING:
Comfortable clothes and shoes you can run or walk in
A gift of something you like to share with others that is meaningful to you (e.g. a poem, food item, song lyrics, story, gift you create) - We will not be able to play full songs, unfortunately
A writing utensil and journal or notebook
COST:
Special Pricing for Center for Courageous Compassion Members: Pay what you are able ; CCC Network members can confirm attendance with Haley through Facebook or text (214-394-7799), and the CCC Venmo will be distributed.
General Public: $35; booking through www.m8wellness.com in the MindBody app.
NOTE: This event joyfully and gratefully invites and welcomes all who are committed to creating a survivor-centered, trauma-sensitive, and intersectionality liberating space of learning and unlearning, openness, courage, and compassion, and mutual self-giving love. We are committed to the process of particular and intersectional abolitionist work that constitutes justice for all people and the whole planet and to creating life post-trauma and post-kyriarch
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