A LIVING MANIFESTO
To the people who may harbour sacred visions and creative ideas and genius, but may have lost their spark. To those who have never seen someone like them in the media, if not exoticised or othered. To those who have never felt like they have the right to talk, to speak, to EXIST. Because their mere existence has felt like an act of rebellion. Because they had to fight, a lot. They have stayed invisible, or hidden their most unsharable parts. I know it is time for all of us to bring out the true colors of our roots, ancestry, love, personality and flavours.
I know a wealth of genius lives in these people.
A wealth of genius that may have been silenced, repressed, put on hold. BUT NOT gone lost.
Sometimes because the way things go in the world, it doesn’t seem we can build something new. Sometimes it seems like there is no other way than the way the others take. Sometimes we can’t see how to build something big, without building more of the same.
I know there is a wealth of genius waiting for people who look nothing like the majority of their surroundings that is waiting for them to take the steer.
I know there is a majority of wealth to be discovered in the heart of those who may have burnout, that society may have put at the margins, at the corners of its imaginary “center”, for not looking or being conforming. I know there is a wealth of genius to be cherished, taken care of awakened, that sits in the body of the colonised, of the outcast, of those who feel like have nothing left to give, no more energy, no more creative spark.
I know that a new spiral of wealth, rediscovery, possibility, potential can rise from the people who seek change, creativity, shifts beyond mere ambition, beyond old metrics of success, old urgencies, beyond market and industry, but not necessarily without market and industry, beyond extraction and extractivism,
beyond colonialism.
we aim to restore the integrity of our internal and external scaffolding, in a way that mirrors and reflects our essence •
we work with what and how at the same time •
we move from goal oriented to process oriented experiences •
we create safety within the body to move at the rhythm of our lower parts and in consonance with (our) nature •
we treat our projects and businesses as creative living beings and organisms that breathe and regenerate •
we commit to the circulation of life force - whether this is meant and intended as money, time, energy, currency of any kind •
we aim to regenerate, redistribute, create true ripples of change through collaboration and sharing •
we create spaces, creative processes, things that resonate with our deeper values and feel true, creative and real •
we put ourselves at the centre of our altar of devotion, together with the rest •
we give up sacrifice and erasure as a form of belonging •
we reclaim the exiled, outcast parts of ourselves and our society and the centrality of nature and heart •
we take back what our ancestors and parents may have had to give up in the name of surviving •
we create with each other •
we embrace creative collaboration, dialogue, simplicity and interconnection OVER codependency or isolation •
we create by celebrating who we are •
we create spaces for inner conflict and outer conflict to be navigated with a healthy, integral approach •
we embrace the inherent technologies of our intelligence and body, which are multiple and different •
we look for ways to cultivate the dialogue of technology and ancestral embodied wisdom and creativity •
we work together to rewrite smaller and larger scale systems and infrastructures •
we create conversation around taboo topics - grief, money, sex, pain, gender •
let's celebrate the f♡ck out of our lives •