Our country is in a place of radical reckoning with its racist roots.

We are not well.

White supremacy culture kills and cheats and dehumanizes Black and brown people, but it lives within and poisons all of us.

And so we must work to get well. Each of us. Me. You.

The United States promotes the myth of rugged individualism. As a result, people with privilege, especially white privilege, have learned to believe that our own wellness looks a certain way, can be achieved through our own individual behaviors, and that it is somehow separate from the health of the collective.

In fact, we've learned to believe it's exhausting, stressful and overwhelming to care for the wellness of the world, that it actually interferes with our own self-care.

 

This is a belief that requires unlearning.

 

The truth: individual and collective wellness are inseparable and so we have to build the skills to see and tend to both at once. Wellness and healing are "in the work" that we are all responsible for doing.

 

CRADLE is a community for people who are devoted to the ongoing practice of collective wellness, a practice that is deeply individual and personal, but impossible to undertake in isolation.

 

CRADLE is a community where we focus on building emotional, conversational and energetic stamina. Where we learn more deeply how to nourish resilience, joy, pleasure and maturity. We embrace the concept of sustainable changes over time, even while we hold close to the urgency of our times.

 

CRADLE is a community where we are supported in using the tools we already have, strengthening and sharpening with courageous practice.

 

CRADLE is a community that names reality: that we all have been shaped by and perpetuate white supremacist culture, no matter if we fully understand our complicity or not. And yet, this is not a class on racism or anti-racism. It is not a book club. It is a community where we will practice inhabiting a place of deep care.