Dear ones,
With the Women's Retreat next month and my leg starting to heal, I am in full swing of diving deep into client commitments and preparations for fall.
As I settle back into my work serving my clients, reconnecting with community and walking the garden to see what is in dire need of harvesting, I feel stronger than ever that we each have a part to play in preserving and building the culture we wish to see in the world. Just in the last month, I have seen many examples of this from the privileged view of supporting my private clients. Here are a few examples ~
~ Business partners who are courageously building a brotherhood based on a foundation of trust.
~ A community of care workers who are ensuring that the needs of undocumented children are considered through thoughtful, healing-centered safety plans.
~ A First Nations woman leader advocating for cultural practices by creatively challenging legal limitations with an approach that honors the humanity of all.
~ An owner of a company who has made a significant investment in a thoughtful and deliberate family leave program, that supports a diversity of genders in their workplace, by making sure each employee knows that they are valued for their unique experience and contributions.
~ A company CEO who chose to host staff listening circles when their visionary policy intentions needed more input to be consistently integrated and sustained.
As these little stories illustrate, each of our actions matters deeply, and they are all complimentary to the vision of ecological governance, systems that care for all living beings.
I am honored to rise to the challenge, shoulder to shoulder with all of you, to do what we can in our own ways.
Read on for more on the retreat, highlighting the powerhouse, Carissa Moore, a post on reciprocity and a link to our free resources page.
With love,
Maija
P.S. My own contribution to this ecology is a new YouTube series. For many years, I have received the stories of survivors of trafficking and other forms of predatory behavior, and I have done what I could do to help support by providing legal, spiritual, political, and community organizing tools. This work is part of my offer of reciprocity for the privilege of being an attorney, and as part of my social responsibility as a business owner.
I have learned a bounty from the survivors, who gave me a new lens through which to see the underbelly of our communitiies, both past and present. I am now offering this series as an expression of gratitude to the survivors, and as a gift to all of my brothers, sisters and relations who want to better trust their intuitive "spidey sense" so that they can form circles of truth, healing, responsibility and actions in their own communities. The challenge of predatory behavior is not gender-specific, and is both a community, national and global issues. The opportunity is that we can start with the baby steps in our own communities. More details and the link can be found below.
