When I am asked what my current exploration is, I am quick to say it’s about healing- healing the self, healing relationships, healing workspaces, healing communities.
The term doesn’t always land well on people and for some they see it as something not applicable in organizational settings. They even think, healing is not what companies or institutions need. Yet for me I firmly believe that if we are to usher in new systems and new ways of doing like how we are all clamoring for, it is important that we set the time, energy and space to devote to healing. The repair is much needed for all the wounds and trauma carried over from the past and the present.
Healing might not be the word that resonates with you, yet conflict management, DEI, social justice, Neurodiversity -areas that are focused on these days - all of these need restoration at its core.
It is through healing that we can usher in new systems, where we can find each other in the edges.
WAYFINDING IN THE EDGES
We are in this space
Where the old doesn’t fit
Yet the new is yet to emerge
Is still to be reimagined,
rediscovered,
reclaimed
We are in this time
Where the old’s dominion is slowly fading
And the grasp of old systems
Tightly holding on to power
Stabilized to their roles,
to their mandates,
to their clauses
Are ushered by walk outs
Wayfinding in the edges
Changemakers who believe in possibilities
In a future not only for the select few
Where the voices of those silenced, marginalized, oppressed
Are brought in with care
Listened to with compassion
Invited to the table
In these trenches, we see
the hope of humanity unfolding
Generations clamoring for change
From the young to the old
From the south to the north
And to the far corners in between
People finding themselves
As hospices of the dying systems
Caring for the embers with grace
Bridge builders, extending their hands
To those deeply entrenched in their power
One step at a time
And there are those of us in the trenches
Tasked with morally imagining the unknown
Radically trusting of a future
Ripe with community
With compassion
With belonging
With wellbeing
The inifinite hope moving us forward
To new systems, new ways of being
From a space of regeneration
From a space of restoration
For the way for us to find ourselves
in these trenches,
is to start the process of healing
And our wayfinding is through our hearts
Mending the past, and the present
Answering the call for the future
And leading us gently back to each other
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