Transformation Playground Foundational Principles:
- Connection is our natural state. Connecting with ourselves and others is a fundamental human need.
- Children wire themselves in relation to their environment, adapting survival strategies which can be unlearned in trauma-informed, healing-centered relational spaces. We are impacted by ancestral, historical and epigenetic adaptations. Beneficial impacts can be integrated and harmful adaptations can be shifted and restored.
- Everything is relational. Reclaiming our felt sense of inter-connection and kin-centric consciousness allows a restorative healing movement within and in relation with our eco-system.
- Our bodies are our direct connection with and expression of Nature.
- Our hearts are portals to compassion and connect us with the flow of emotions, our human vulnerability, and love.
- Our minds can be honed to focus our attention and intention, enhance discernment, open intuition, and update / interpret our experiences in empowering ways which benefit all.
- We can align our minds, heart, and bodies, empowering ourselves to alchemize difficult experiences and live responsively and creatively.
- A felt sense of spaciousness opens through embodying presence.
- Our individual, ancestral, and collective history encodes us with resilience and unique gifts, as well as difficulties, traumas and systems of oppression we inherit which impact each of us in various ways.
- As we tap into life's innate capacity for healing, we can resolve trauma, experience post-traumatic growth and restore past unfinished business into a felt sense of wholeness, freedom and joy. The journey may begin at an individual level, and since we are inter-connected it is also a relational, group, and collective process.
- Through stillness, openness to possibility, and connection with the divine, insights emerge which we can welcome and live into being.
History of Transformation Playground
In the early 2000's I named my business Transformation Playground as it reflects appreciation for and a playful approach towards the many ways home to ourselves. The concepts which ground Transformation Playground are both specific and universal, drawing from ancient traditions, mystical teachings, embodiment modalities, principles of nonviolence, relational practices, medicine wheel teachings, and current / emerging wisdom related to healing developmental, ancestral, generational, collective and historical trauma. By diving deeply into multiple transformational systems, maps, and practices over the past 2 1/2 decades, I gained an awareness of how approaches overlap and differ -- what’s unique about them and what universal aspect they illuminate. Transformation Playground synthesizes what I have learned so far.
For group and we-space work, visit my other site: embodiedwitnessing.org.
For group and we-space work, visit my other site: embodiedwitnessing.org.
