Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick October 24, 2021
This is an ongoing area of exploration through processes like Reworlding and the Sunset Assembly. Some essential elements of such relational decision-making processes include:
Building relationship:Ensuring all groups are included, specially those that are marginalized – ideally as partners in developing processes
Dealing with power: Having strategies for managing those who are conditioned to take, or give away, personal power,
Centering empathy: development of relational skills e.g. listening, confidence, self-reflection and expression, emotional self-management, empathy.
Addressing trauma: Dealing early and well with conflict and trauma responses when they are triggered, and taking a transformative approach to trauma, reactivity and conflict
Beyond the sunset, we aim to hold a Sunrise Assembly after COP, hopefully joined by many new collaborators, focusing on how communities can gather locally and trans-locally to make heart-centered decisions, and so take responsibility for the future in a way that can replace a global decision-making system that is paralyzed by its own trauma.
These around-the-world assemblies are sparked by Grassroots to Global, building on the Reworlding gathering.
