Date & Time

Tuesday, November 8 2022

8:30-10:30am PT • 10:30am-12:30pm CST • 11:30am-1:30pm EST • 4:30-6:30pm GMT • 9:00-11:00pm IST (Check your time zone here)

This webinar is free to attend. Please consider making a donation to support Our Bodhi Project’s work. Space is limited, register now to receive the Zoom link to participate! 

Description

We are a collective moving at the intersections of social healing, artistry, queerness, and co-liberation, and people often ask us about the ways of knowing and frames that ground and guide our activities. Many want to know more about how principles of relationship, nonbinariness, inseparability and ‘speaking to the whole(s)’ of our complex reality inform our work to center the collective health and wellbeing of all living systems, and about what we mean when we evoke a spiritual-political sensibility. Some are engaged in deep spiritual practice and notice that political education and organization are neglected or excluded in their communities. Others are involved in direct, day-to-day organizing to reduce and eliminate the harms of oppressive systems, habits and beliefs, but encounter spiritual practitioners who seek to ‘bypass’ the material-political realities of this struggle. 

We are moved and challenged by these inquiries. We offer this webinar as a space for unfolding them together with others who are also deeply engaging with the following questions in their own practice:

• How do our ways of organizing for collective health and co-liberation reach the spiritual and political roots of the modern social, climate and nature emergency? 

• How do we valorize and protect spiritual-political knowledges and practices of collective care that nourish possibility for vital coexistence by honoring the queer realities of ecosystemic reciprocity, interconnectedness and inseparability? 

• How do we build stamina to do this work together, across difference, in the face of colonial structures and imaginaries that deny, negate, sever and destroy these vital life-giving relationships and their guardians? 

• How does moving in the world with spiritual-political sensibility support the flow of medicinal forces of radical relationship into new paradigms of organizing? How can it attune us to our responsibilities to work with/in the tensions, complexities and impurities through which we must (re)learn how to live, heal and die well together?

Who are we?

Co-Hosts

Sonali Sangeeta Balajee is Founder of Our Bodhi Project, a proud mother, artist, organizer, facilitator, mindfulness/yoga instructor and emerging health practitioner. Her life work has focused on bringing forward ideas and strategies that speak to wholeness, specifically calling for leading with multiple truths and perspectives required for collective health. To those ends, she strives to elevate the connection between social and spiritual wellbeing, focusing on artistically embodying and animating the web of health, belonging, collective care, and liberation.  

Sarah Amsler is a Lead Collaborator with Our Bodhi Project, an ecosocial researcher, writer, educator and cultural organizer who draws on arts of theorizing, experiential learning, poetics and embodiment to restore radical relationality in how we sense, perceive and make sense of the world.