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Drawing from that central paradigm that everything true on one level is true on all of the levels, I am fundamentally aware right now that I need to study trauma. 

A deeper understanding of trauma will inform my relationship with dialogue and conflict work. 

An inquiry into trauma is a part of this larger life project I am embarking on here--the project that is held in this particular blog--the project of making sense of this human world. Trauma is a huge part of that.

Here are a few notes I jotted down after listening to a podcast on Somatics. More info on the podcast at the bottom. 

-I want to talk to Lance about the intersection of trauma, therapy, and liberation. What has his work in the last few years (the last few years in particular because of the therapy work, but certainly informed by his entire lifetime) shown him about these things? I was inspired to talk to Lance because I am seeking more understanding of the connection (I think a lot of time the DISconnection) between individualized therapy and the social world. How could these things possibly be separate? They are not separate.

-In the podcast they were talking about personal healing (through somatics work) and structural transformation, and how they need to be connected. I was feeling it as more than just two things being connected. No, it is actually all one thing. That gets back to the paradigm I was referring to earlier. 

-Think about the intersection of trauma and transformative justice.

-One of the people in the podcast said that trauma disrupts three things: Safety. Dignity. Sense of purpose. Safety. Dignity. Sense of purpose. Safety. Dignity. Sense of purpose. 

What if we (connection to dialogue and winc here) operated under the assumption that everyone is traumatized?

What do III really want to understand about trauma? I want to know how it lives in my body. I want to get to know it through my own experience of being alive. And I want to know on a deeper level how it impacts others--those who have experienced it in ways I never have and mostly probably never will. And how it impacts others who carry it in their DNA in ways that I definitely never will. And the ways that I do carry it in my DNA. And what all of this means about the social world and what all of these different group identities really mean. And what it really means for “structural transformation.” And I want to know how it should (SHOULD--I mean my OWN complicated, constantly changing, and definitely essential and meaningful SHOULD) matter when we work together across borders. 

Here it is: https://soundcloud.com/generativesomatics/trauma-healing-collective-power.