Tree of Life retreat
In late November, the Tree of Life (the healing and empowerment ones!) met for two and a half days to look back on the last year.
It has been a challenge – both with resources, and with difficulties on the ground – but we have done it!
Amazing, courageous work with expanding circles touching and healing peoples’ lives.
It was time to look at ourselves:
What impact has this had on us?
where have we lost our own power?
lost our courage?
felt the stress of responsibility?
where we were up to, and where we were going?
for we have come to a new reality
when there is no one left to blame
no one in charge who we can rely on to look after our rights
and we are drawn by invisible threads into the same circle
nurturing this seed of healing, at the centre, into being
there is a point when we can choose to change and grow
when we move from hierarchy and patriarchy and matriarchy and the fear of authority
and the passive, disempowering comfort of being looked after
and we stand at the edge of the circle
learning to be our true selves.
there is talk of the great turning
of holonic shift
when the force of our intention moves from one that is against something
to a new sense of working together
when we have nothing to trust but a communal truth
and the agreements at the centre of the circle
binding us together
to birth a new vision
there is a point when we choose to change and grow
rather than stay and nurture the old ways that no longer serve
for connected into the circle of our common intention
we each have a path to follow
different responsibilities to carry
different dreams to dream