Embodied Acts of Care

Text reads: "From Individualism". Day to day, Everyday Writes is “just me”. I coach, facilitate, write & do all the behind-the-scenes work. I’m an intersectionally-marginalised human living with disabilities, caring responsibilities, a need for rest and a deep sense of purpose. If I think I’m just doing this work alone, it can feel pretty lonely and heavy. Image shows embodiment coach dia, a light-black-skinned person with short hair standing in front of treestext reads: " Towards collective care - Every offering here is sustained through interdependence. My capacity to sustain my offerings in the world is held within friendships, solidarity, rest, practice & play! practice = moss rest = water community = earth ancestors = air". Image shows embodiment coach dia, a light-skinned Black person with short hair, overlaid with images of nature (leaves, trees, hibiscus, marigolds, sea. Top right is an image over the cosmos spilling out of the frame)

Everyday Writes is a little ecosystem. Here, we get to practice embodied collective care, with images l-r, a group of BIPOC people laughing together, dappled light through a forest, and a closed bud beginning to open

Within this ecosystem, we can practice co-creating the world we want to live in.

We can move beyond wanting to do things differently, and into embodied experiments in sustainable & non-extractive ways of being in relationship with each other, rooted in the principles of:

generosity

mutual trust

collaboration

care.



In practice, this looks like:

  • trusting each other to locate ourselves within socio-economic privilege, without needing to show proof
  • sliding scale and pay-what-you-can pricing for one-to-one coaching
  • sharing our resources by Gifting It Forward (paying the higher price point) when able, if you benefit from relative racial ease and/or generational wealth, as an embodied practice of care & reparation towards those with marginalised identities and/or less financial resource within our community
  • free and discounted workshop spaces for people with marginalised identities
  • free and pay-what-you-can gatherings
  • invitations to support the funding of free offerings and in-person community projects through donations
  • invitations to support me to rest & play so that I can continue to hold space for others
  • invitations to support my family and their neighbourhood in Sudan, through my long-term creative-collaborations fundraising project, 'Karkadeh'

 


Text reads "I am a commitment to tending the collective soil". Images left to right: sunrise silhouette behind wildflowers in field, the Nile river winding through green countryside in Sudan, a ink hibiscus flower

Within this ecosystem, my commitment to tending the collective soil looks like:

  • being transparent and communicative about the ways Everyday Writes offerings evolve according to what's emerging in my life
  • fostering a culture of mutualism & celebration instead of competition
  • being in creativity, dreaming & solidarity with others, so that I can sustain play within my work
  • turning towards community, asking for help, receiving feedback and making invitations, even when my instinct is to want to dig in and figure everything out by myself
  • offering heart through my writing on substack
  • nurturing slow sustainable relationship away from social media, and interrupting consumerism by being in intentional response & reciprocity to people's beautiful offerings in the world
  • exploring and naming my relationship with Sudan & diaspora, and how that links to this vision for collective wellbeing
  • tending to my wholeness by being in regular embodiment practice and grief spaces, so that I can show up for this work feeling grounded and resourced
  • planting actual seeds in the ground and taking care of them, as a visual reminder of this commitment

a selection of images of nature, including moss, the sea, water running over rocks

Would you like to help sustain this work or be involved in projects? Here's how.

 

 

Thank you for being in practice in this ecosystem together.

I'm really glad you're here.