"NOW is the time", Thích Nhất Hạnh
In these times of escalating social injustice, climate crisis and facsist uprising we need to remember what it is that makes us humans thrive and reconnect to our basic goodnesse, our intrinsic sanity.
Building and cultivating focus, kindness, compassion, self-regulation and resilience so we can transform systems of opression into something worth living for. Systems that are safe enough not only for a few but all of us.
Thats our mission.
"One should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.",
Being human comes with a nervoussystem that is designed to protect us. So turning away from aversion and thread is profoundly human. Staying and connecting to what frightens us is an art. An art we want to teach you. An art we cultivate ourselve. Acknlowleging the trauma lots of us go through on a daily basis and invite students to back off when feeling pain in order to stay in the so called window of tolerance seems to be a contradiction. And here is what we want to highlight: Let us unlearn harmful behaviours like this rigid and unforgiving way we look at each other. Let us remember that everyone uf us is doing the best they can and respect and acknlowledge that sometimes we need to self-regulate, rest, heal before we go out again to face what needs to be faced.