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Summer 2020 Is Calling for Change, and Processing Groups Can Support Change-Making Reflection and Re-Commitment

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee June 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

Among the many needs of this time, holding spaces—that is, spaces for processing, reflection, somatic awareness, and grounded re-commitment—feel particularly important.

With this need in mind, I’m continuing to hold lunchtime processing groups: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands.”

Throughout the spring, these groups felt supportive for me—like I’d learn or remember or release something new with each session. So, this summer, I’m continuing to facilitate  processing groups—to notice what’s shifting, to listen more carefully, and to re-commit with intention.

Each week we have a new question to frame the session, and we follow the same format: introductions, guided meditation, freewriting, and then conversation.

A schedule of questions appears with the registration page, and here are the questions in image form, each inviting reflection on making change:

This image shares this week’s question—“What truths are asking to be told?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, June 17th.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

June 17: What truths are asking to be told?

This image shares this week’s question—“What are you longing to block (obstruct, stop, prohibit) and to build (create, inspire, fuel) this summer?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, June 24th.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

June 24: What are you longing to block (obstruct, stop, prohibit) and to build (create, inspire, fuel) this summer?

This image shares this week’s question—“How do we approach Independence Day and national rhetoric differently — toward redressing harms?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, July 1st.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

July 1: How do we approach Independence Day and national rhetoric differently — toward redressing harms?

This image shares this week’s question—“How do we tear down the tyranny of positivity and tend to our full emotions?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, July 8th.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

July 8: How do we tear down the tyranny of positivity and tend to our full emotions?

This image shares this week’s question—“What does grieving look like now?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, July 15th.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

July 15: What does grieving look like now?

This image shares this week’s question—“What is becoming intolerable and demands real change?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, July 22nd.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

July 22: What is becoming intolerable and demands real change?

This image shares this week’s question—“What critiques (critiques against and critiques for) are crystallizing at this time? In other words, what are we learning and unlearning now?”—along with meeting information: “Processing the Pandemic with Heart-Head-Hands. Wed, July 29th.” Text appears in a central box that looks like a letter partially out of an envelope. The colors are red, orange, and yellow.

July 29: What critiques (critiques against and critiques for) are crystallizing at this time? In other words, what are we learning and unlearning now?

These questions feel important when there’s such a need for remembering, reckoning with, and repairing under-acknowledged and continuing harms of settler colonialism, white supremacy, systemic racism, and structural violence.

Sometimes holding a question weaves it into daily life: highlighting what’s too often ignored, making long-held patterns intolerable, and growing the capacity to change. And summer 2020 is calling for change!

If you’d like to join a group, register here.

Registration is included with Patreon subscriptions, and there’s also an option to drop in for a single session.

If you know others who may be interested, please share with them. I connect with people mostly through word-of-mouth recommendations, so this is one of the best ways to support me in continuing to hold processing groups.

And reach out with questions or feedback anytime.

Toward striving toward justice—social, racial, and environmental justice.

Toward setting a pace for long-term commitment and long-haul staying power.

Toward feeling, thinking, and doing: that is, making the everyday work of living for justice fully embodied.

Beth

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