Who Are You
In the Work That Reconnects,
we have a dialogue exercise
in which Person A asks Person B
"Who are you?"
several times over a few minutes,
as it feels right to reprime this exploratory pump;
then person B does the same for person A.
The person hosting, facilitating, enabling
this reiterative question's redundant possibilities
is merely an echo-present listener,
noticing diversity within these multiple evolving responses,
without judging good, bad, ugly, or even indifferent,
quietly hearing rhythms of longing for love
between the crippling cracks of anger and fear,
anxiety and chronic climate stress,
compelling and compiling Self without Othering
pathology.
The question,
Do all these diverse self-descriptions truly fit
this organic mind/body
passion/pleasure elephant?
does not usually arise.
Rather,
we accept all these scrabbling voices
and hats
and feelings
and ideas
and beliefs
co-occurring within one bilateral
positive-health v. negative-pathology ego/ecosystem,
seeking fullness
richness,
poli-economic,
polymorphic communication,
positive voice/choice design,
win/win development,
co-empathic investment,
and authentic/integral implementation outcomes,
at the end of this elephant's rhetorical day,
if not sooner.
Why is this not always the case
when we ask our friends and families,
our public sector leaders
and financial sector investors,
"Who do you hope we are becoming?"
What loves are we preparing
to neurosystemically invest in
and which past angers and future fears
to ecosystemically divest of?
What win/win kindness
good humor
positive health indicators can I give
that I already invest in organically regenerate health
agendas,
platforms,
local cooperative designs
with global wealth intentions,
co-engaging therapeutic diapraxis
of which I sing so resonantly with others?
I know you support restoring wealth to our soil
and preserving clean water,
as I do.
So does it bother you,
as it does me,
that we still contaminate our water with poo and pee
instead of investing in nutrition-starved soil,
where both could be healthy resources
countering past anthro-supremacist neglect
and monotheistic abuse,
doubly-negative GodMind v EarthBody
systemic trauma pathology?
We say we support cooperatively vibrant and healthy local economies
and empowering political vitality,
so does it bother you,
as it does me,
to so often hear "eitherMe-orThey" deductive
0-sum closed degenerating consumptive reductivism
and wonder why not first cooperatively consider
"bothMe-andWe"
regenerating productive panentheism?
I appreciate what you just said
and I wonder if adding X might make your/our idea
even better
healthier
wealthier
wise.
Do you agree,
or maybe you see concerns for yourself and others
new to me,
of which we might learn together?
Could a cooperative bipartisan election,
a civil peace campaign
begin with compiling interdependent hopes and wishes
and loves of Who Are We?
thereby more smoothly avoiding stuckness-traps
of future mind fear
and past body anger,
dissonant pathological win/lose intentions
degenerating into lose/lose despairing outcomes.
Could investing both-and cooperative
kindness communication norms
better lead toward co-investing in healthy wealth,
politically strong-embraced
liberating talk/conservation walk policies,
procedural and dialogical transparency,
polyculturally inclusive design and development and discernment
of poli-eco-logical therapy
v. anthro-morphic pathology
Co-arising patriotic matriarchal
Sun-enlightened republican songs
through Earth-empowering democratic dances
trauma-informing crown/root
Me-health/We-wealth outgoing networks
Ego/eco-normative Who Are We diapraxis,
embracing each and every sacred Person X and Y response
to Who Am I?
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