A place to be for activists and changemakers
While we are busy trying to change the system, the system has already changed us.
In obvious and subtle ways, the dominant culture forms our mindsets and limits our imagination. As activists and changemakers, we tend to focus all our energies on the external world, while we ignore the internal world we are operating from.
“The way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis.” – Bayo Akomolafe
:: N O U S ::
The invitation
To quiet down the mind
Filled with the master’s tools
How do you intend to bring down the master’s house?
To peel away the layers
To clear our gaze
To feel into our broken parts, mirrored in a broken world
Like phantom pains of amputated limbs
When we are ready
We can re - member
that once we were whole and
like the moon, we know :: our light and our darkness
like the acorn, we know :: our infinite possibilities
like the water, we know :: our power from within
Let’s meet at zero degrees of separation
Where egos and roles and societies dissolve
Let’s meet as our full selves
and live into radical love
for ourselves
for all beings
for mystery
Beyond the certainty of the old
there is a place
where dissolving is solving
and being is doing
Where joy is swirling
and
uncertainty is blooming
into the new
Beyond the certainty of the old
there is a place
I will meet you there
N O U S Retreats
N O U S is rooted in the power of retreat - in nature and in community.
N O U S retreats offer a healing container for small groups of activists and changemakers to embark on a shared journey to:
Explore and unlearn patterns instilled by the dominant system
Restore the relation with themselves, others and the natural world
Our one-week guided retreats are grounded in:
Intentionality to slow down in stillness and in nature
Individual practice – Cultivating space to turn inwards through contemplation and movement
Collective practice – Sharing circles and rituals to harness the healing power of the group
N O U S Connections
N O U S intends to contribute to the growing need for collective spaces and healing architecture around the inner dimension of social and ecological change.
N O U S connections offers an on-line home for people to connect with each other and to access existing information, initiatives and retreats rooted in the intersection between inner work and outer change.
N O U S Insights
Timeless wisdom for modern activists. Soulful activism. Inner and outer technology. The wounded healer. Silence is revolution.
Written and curated by the N O U S team, N O U S insights is a space to get inspired, challenged and nourished with reflections and meditations on inner and outer change.
“love and justice are not two. without inner change there can be no outer change; without collective change, no change matters.”
– Rev. angel Kyodo Williams
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