Embodied Acts of Care

collage: BIPOC people laying down laughing together; dappled light through forest and moss; a pink flower bud
Everyday Writes is a little ecosystem. Here, we get to practice embodied collective care.


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


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)

Together, 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 pricing for one-to-one coaching and workshops
  • free workshop spaces for BIPOC and trans people
  • sharing our resources by Gifting It Forward (paying the higher price point) when able, if you benefit from relative socio-economic ease, 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
  • invitations to support the funding of free offerings and in-person community projects through financial gifts
  • 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

I think word of mouth is much more fun than social media. If you know someone who might love my offerings, please send them a message with a link to this website. Thank you for being in practice in this ecosystem together.

I'm really glad you're here.