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***updated stretch goal: $4,700***
i’ve been selected as part of a small group (18ppl- majority people of color) among many applicants to join rev angel kyodo williams and 3 incredible co-facilitators in the be.ing transformation retreat in molokai, hawai’i! as i write this, i leave tomorrow to spend a week living close to the land and engaging in deep transformational work around healing, embodiment, and wielding both power and love in service of justice. it is work geared to help retreatants deepen and organize toward their place in the collective and in the labor of creating a more thriving world and environment for all.
the retreat will guide us in becoming ‘more aligned, more mature adults,’ self-evolving and self-transforming, as deeply conscious and responsive parts of the greater whole.
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*$1750 will cover the remaining cost of the retreat (rev has created a pooled crowdfund for a number of us needing financial assistance in order to participate).
*$470 is the amount of income i will miss during the week of the retreat.
*$1080 is the cost of my flights and my final night’s stay on molokai.
==this is a total of {$3300}
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i am so excited and ready for this work! the arcs of everything i have been working on over the past decade has clearly pointed me to and prepared me for this work at this time. deciding to apply, committing to going, and then the intense processing leading up to finally being able to write this and share it with you all has been some of the most challenging, meaningful, and exciting work i’ve done in my life so far.
i’ve been working tirelessly over the past years on my own personal healing and to understand and work toward true collective liberation and justice. i’ve dedicated myself to practices and ways of moving and engaging that are counterintuitive to the scripts, frameworks, and ‘common sense’ that were handed to me by our shared western culture. in working to heal the confusions and contortions of my mind, heart, and relationships, i realized more and more how what i was grappling with was so much more than my own individual being- that i was actually grappling with my entrenchment in the shaping matrices of many overlapping and interlocking systems of violence, oppression, and harm- notably: racism, misogyny, heterosexism, settler colonialism, and racialized capitalism.
because of the way aspects of my identity (my skin, my gender, my sexuality) intersect with the various systems of dominance, marginalization, and oppression that shape our society- combined with my inheritance of our collective ills communicated transgenerationally through my family lineages and through greater social cultures- i’ve had to do a lot of work to identify and address internalized intersectional oppressions just to do my own 'personal' emotional healing properly and begin to inhabit myself more fully in the world.
this necessary learning and growth has given me growing clarity around the nature and structuring of these systems that constrain, distort, and limit us all from our full humanity and collectivity. it’s deepened me into my purpose and vocational path, and continues to strengthen my resolve and willingness to make the choices and investments i have been making. i know it is not just for my own benefit- but as my favorite rev angel quote offers, ‘love and justice are not two. without inner change there can be no outer change. without collective change, no change matters.’
[here’s 3 more paragraphs i wrote on the nature of intersectional oppression, the burden and investment of labor, barriers to access and support, and associated inequity of resource distribution as it relates to my own story and where i am today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fkoQgo9Kme3tfrD2-ECb0hsgjG_SyyeUXjJqUvANwKg/edit?usp=sharing ]
since shelter-in-place started, i’ve been immersing myself in practice and collective spaces organized by rev angel. the work has taken me so much deeper into my own healing and becoming, clarified my work for justice and liberation in our collective, and given me tools and platforms to develop my skills as a mindfulness facilitator and educator. it has helped me become a more present and engaged participant in all of my communities. i’m looking forward to this retreat as a chance to deepen further, clarify, and unlock my deeper potential as an agent of change in this world.
walking this path and continuing and deepening in spaces created by rev angel over the last year has allowed me to heal and to contribute so meaningfully in my professional, social, and healing/transformational circles, employing my hard-earned wisdom and skills in service of educating and inviting justice around issues of race, diversity, and healing more broadly. walking this path has also only been possible through the investment of much time and resources and by the sacrifice of turning away from engagements that are more readily financially rewarded in our society.
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anything raised beyond my $3300 stretch goal will go toward giving some amount to the crowdfunding pool for the other people going on the retreat and then toward my ~$11k of credit card debt. i will be better positioned to heal my trauma and clarify my capacities to grow and share my wisdom and skills, as more of my energy is freed from the weight of this burden.
i invite your support, $5, $50, $500, or a love note!
i particularly invite that any giving be done in the spirit of what feels supportive to your own and our collective liberation. please let any feeling of 'should' be let go of. it may not be time or the amount to give if the thought incites an experience of contraction more than a feeling of opening and vulnerability, a greater sensitivity to your own truth, love, and excitement of possibility.
may your engagement here with this and with me and all that follows be of service to our collective liberation and joyful becoming together! thank you for being a part of this life we all share together!
with great warmth of heart,
gratitude and joy,
willi.
_/|_ <3<3
i’ve been selected as part of a small group (18ppl- majority people of color) among many applicants to join rev angel kyodo williams and 3 incredible co-facilitators in the be.ing transformation retreat in molokai, hawai’i! as i write this, i leave tomorrow to spend a week living close to the land and engaging in deep transformational work around healing, embodiment, and wielding both power and love in service of justice. it is work geared to help retreatants deepen and organize toward their place in the collective and in the labor of creating a more thriving world and environment for all.
the retreat will guide us in becoming ‘more aligned, more mature adults,’ self-evolving and self-transforming, as deeply conscious and responsive parts of the greater whole.
- - -
*$1750 will cover the remaining cost of the retreat (rev has created a pooled crowdfund for a number of us needing financial assistance in order to participate).
*$470 is the amount of income i will miss during the week of the retreat.
*$1080 is the cost of my flights and my final night’s stay on molokai.
==this is a total of {$3300}
- - -
i am so excited and ready for this work! the arcs of everything i have been working on over the past decade has clearly pointed me to and prepared me for this work at this time. deciding to apply, committing to going, and then the intense processing leading up to finally being able to write this and share it with you all has been some of the most challenging, meaningful, and exciting work i’ve done in my life so far.
i’ve been working tirelessly over the past years on my own personal healing and to understand and work toward true collective liberation and justice. i’ve dedicated myself to practices and ways of moving and engaging that are counterintuitive to the scripts, frameworks, and ‘common sense’ that were handed to me by our shared western culture. in working to heal the confusions and contortions of my mind, heart, and relationships, i realized more and more how what i was grappling with was so much more than my own individual being- that i was actually grappling with my entrenchment in the shaping matrices of many overlapping and interlocking systems of violence, oppression, and harm- notably: racism, misogyny, heterosexism, settler colonialism, and racialized capitalism.
because of the way aspects of my identity (my skin, my gender, my sexuality) intersect with the various systems of dominance, marginalization, and oppression that shape our society- combined with my inheritance of our collective ills communicated transgenerationally through my family lineages and through greater social cultures- i’ve had to do a lot of work to identify and address internalized intersectional oppressions just to do my own 'personal' emotional healing properly and begin to inhabit myself more fully in the world.
this necessary learning and growth has given me growing clarity around the nature and structuring of these systems that constrain, distort, and limit us all from our full humanity and collectivity. it’s deepened me into my purpose and vocational path, and continues to strengthen my resolve and willingness to make the choices and investments i have been making. i know it is not just for my own benefit- but as my favorite rev angel quote offers, ‘love and justice are not two. without inner change there can be no outer change. without collective change, no change matters.’
[here’s 3 more paragraphs i wrote on the nature of intersectional oppression, the burden and investment of labor, barriers to access and support, and associated inequity of resource distribution as it relates to my own story and where i am today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fkoQgo9Kme3tfrD2-ECb0hsgjG_SyyeUXjJqUvANwKg/edit?usp=sharing ]
since shelter-in-place started, i’ve been immersing myself in practice and collective spaces organized by rev angel. the work has taken me so much deeper into my own healing and becoming, clarified my work for justice and liberation in our collective, and given me tools and platforms to develop my skills as a mindfulness facilitator and educator. it has helped me become a more present and engaged participant in all of my communities. i’m looking forward to this retreat as a chance to deepen further, clarify, and unlock my deeper potential as an agent of change in this world.
walking this path and continuing and deepening in spaces created by rev angel over the last year has allowed me to heal and to contribute so meaningfully in my professional, social, and healing/transformational circles, employing my hard-earned wisdom and skills in service of educating and inviting justice around issues of race, diversity, and healing more broadly. walking this path has also only been possible through the investment of much time and resources and by the sacrifice of turning away from engagements that are more readily financially rewarded in our society.
- - -
anything raised beyond my $3300 stretch goal will go toward giving some amount to the crowdfunding pool for the other people going on the retreat and then toward my ~$11k of credit card debt. i will be better positioned to heal my trauma and clarify my capacities to grow and share my wisdom and skills, as more of my energy is freed from the weight of this burden.
i invite your support, $5, $50, $500, or a love note!
i particularly invite that any giving be done in the spirit of what feels supportive to your own and our collective liberation. please let any feeling of 'should' be let go of. it may not be time or the amount to give if the thought incites an experience of contraction more than a feeling of opening and vulnerability, a greater sensitivity to your own truth, love, and excitement of possibility.
may your engagement here with this and with me and all that follows be of service to our collective liberation and joyful becoming together! thank you for being a part of this life we all share together!
with great warmth of heart,
gratitude and joy,
willi.
_/|_ <3<3