{"id":5627,"date":"2017-11-04T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2017-11-04T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T14:40:44","slug":"mandala-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5627","title":{"rendered":"Mandala of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a piece I wrote during the Kindred Spirits<\/a> gathering at Rowe<\/a>. \u00a0I did this workshop with about 10 other people. \u00a0It was facilitated by Satyena who is the director of Starseed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I did Satyena\u2019s workshop \u201cMandala of Truth.\u201d\u00a0 It sounded like it was developed by Joanna Macy<\/a> as part of the work that reconnects.\u00a0 We were in the Farmhouse living room, sitting in a circle.\u00a0 There was a cushion in the center with four objects, a stick for anger, a stone for fear, dead leaves for grief, and an empty bowl for emptiness.\u00a0 I think we must have done a bit at the beginning which involved walking around outside, barefoot, to get in touch with the earth.\u00a0 We also did a five-on-five about what we were most upset with about the current state of affairs.\u00a0 I did it with Peter, who works in the health industry in the Berkshires.\u00a0 He was fearful about all the men with guns and pickup trucks, afraid of another Charlottesville.\u00a0 I talked about my feelings about the exploitation of the earth.<\/p>\n

Then we sat around the four objects, with a pillow in the center, and when people felt called, they got up and picked up an object and talked about their anger and their fears.\u00a0 I was impressed with Tommy who said that he had focussed on recovery and was in denial about what was going on, and he wanted to change that.\u00a0 A lot of people spoke about both anger and fear about the gap between the rich and the poor.\u00a0 I spoke about my anger and fear that we would destroy the capacity of our planet to support diverse and colorful creatures, and grief for the whales, the polar bears… \u00a0 I was surprised by how much strength I got from hearing people speak their truth, even though it was all \u201cnegative.\u201d\u00a0 I think part of it was just hearing truth spoken, and also knowing that I wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a piece I wrote during the Kindred Spirits gathering at Rowe. \u00a0I did this workshop with about 10 other people. \u00a0It was facilitated by Satyena who is the director of Starseed. Yesterday I did Satyena\u2019s workshop \u201cMandala of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-healing","category-present-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}