empowerment for next generation hippies
Want to learn how to access empowered, values-aligned choice, even in situations that fucking suck?
But what happens when someone else is doing something that creates huge negative impacts or harm on you, someone else, or the world? We tend to respond to these situations in one of two ways:
We Uphold the Patriarchy: by judging and condemning the people responsible, recreating the dynamics of war within ourselves, our relationships, our activism.
The Love & Light Approach (AKA Spiritual Bypass): We turn away from the painful realities we see in the world and in our relationships, dismissing their very real impacts as “negativity” that’s not worth dwelling on.
The problem with both of these responses is that neither create a world that works for everyone.
Judgment and condemnation begets more of the same, and avoiding ugly realities and pretending things are fine when they aren’t prevents us from taking responsibility and action.
A world that truly works for all depends on something radically different.
It depends on many more human beings, like you and me, being able to see what’s happening in ourselves, our relationships and in the world with clarity. It depends on us understanding why these things are happening. And it depends on us knowing what loving, empowered action we can take in response to any type of stimulus.
So…what exactly do I do?
I teach hippies how to be more effective and joyful in whatever arena of practice they’re working in: the home, purpose projects, activism, life.
Specifically, in the areas of:
Parenting and other intimate relationships
Conflict
Decision making
Money
Me, stoked about these shrimp and lobster mushroom…because I’m a hippie.
-I share a blame-free way of engaging with conflict that results in greater trust and connection with yourself and others.
-I teach parents how to foster strong, lifelong connection with their kids through collaboration rather than domination - so that many more of everyone’s needs get met.
-I teach people how to meet their material needs without manipulation, force, excess or self-sacrifice.
-I share a decision making framework that centers the needs of all people and subverts the power-over paradigm that even we well intentioned hippies fall into.
Want to jump aboard my nonviolent liberation nerd train? Then I warmly invite you to join one of my classes or workshops.
With love,
Janne
