How can we develop new - and integrate with traditional - decision making processes that enable us to work collectively towards a truly decolonised, just, empathic and regenerating world at every level?
Reworlding wasn’t a call to get involved in politics. It was a call to help create a new politics.
Reworlding brought together:
People who understand and have experience of working with their own and others’ trauma
People who have experience of shared decision making in contexts or processes of resistance to that domination.
People with a strong commitment to ending our system of domination - and to replacing it with bringing a new system of connection into the world.
This week was an exploration, a scouting out of what is already happening: searching ahead to try to help imagine and work towards assembling a politics of wholeness, including through deepening our awareness of what colonises our world, including so much of each of us.
In the dominant system, trauma has driven the way power is held for millennia. The violence, inequality and environmental disasters unfolding in the world are the direct result of this.
To get the different results we so desperately need:
To come at decision making power in a completely different way: in ways that understand how human beings work emotionally, in ways that will not let trauma be in the driving seat around the processes or decisions that are made.
To put empathy, and personal and cultural healing, at the centre, in a way that enables economic, social and political justice.
A deep shared awareness of the way the domination system colonises and traumatises the human and non-human world. Can a new politics be born out of knowing that we are not that system (however much it inhabits us) and born out of knowing our well-being entirely depends on ensuring the well-being of others?