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- program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - From Inner Work to Global Impact
- Stop Reset Go Deep Humanity / cosmolocal - LCE - relevant to
- event time conflict - with Building Citizen-Led Movements
- solution - watch one live and the other recorded
meeting notes
- see below
ANNIKA:
- inner work helps us stay sane dealing with the chaos in our work
- healing is not fixing
- hope is a muscle, go to the "hope gym"
- not just personal but collective
EDWIN:
- inner WORK
- constant, continuous work
- how do you scale these things? Is it wrong term to use? Mechanistic?
- how do we move to global impact? We don't know yet
LOUISE
- inner work saved my
- orientate inside away from trauma architecture
- colonized and colonizer energies
- they longed to be in union
- be with all parts of myself
- allow alchemy on the outside to the inside
- liberate myself from my trauma structures and unfold myself
- we cannot be a restorer unless we do that inner work
- systeming
- verbalizing / articulating it
- we are all actors in creating the system
- question
- where am i systeming from?
- answer
- I am an interbeing
- Am i systeming from the interbeing space or the trauma architecture space?
- Where am I seeding from? What energy do I put into my work?
- system is not concrete and fixed but fluid
- fielding - bringing different human fields together
- I can work with hatred and rage on the inside and transmute it so that I don't add to it on the outside
JOHN:
- stuck systems and lens of trauma can help us get unstock
- 70% of people have experienced trauma
- trauma is part of the human experience
- people make up systems
- so traumatized people makes traumatized systems
- fight, flight and freeze happens at both levels
- at system level, its fractally similiar
- disembodied from wisdom
- in state of survival and fear
- fixing things
- until we deal with the trauma in the people, we will continue to have traumatized systems
- More work won't help if it's coming from traumatized people
EDWIN
- incremental change - something holding us back
- built upon these traumas
- Economic metrics are out of touch with how the trauma affects systems
- Journey - awareness first, then understanding and inner transformation and finally change
- Discussion with funders - most are still stuck in old paradigm of metrics, audits, etc
- this comes with trauma because we have no trust on who is on the other side
- a big part of the system is built on mistrust, creates more gaps between us
- need to become anti-fragile
ANNIKA
- Funders have lack of trust because inner work hasn't been done on both sides
- As a funder, we really try to create a space of trust
- Think of the language we use to be inclusive
- How do we make inner work a part of the operating system of how we work?
- We looked at 500 mental health organizations over the years
- It's so urgent now that we align our work
EDWIN
- We have a lot of half-formed thoughts
- It's very complex and nobody has cracked it
- We have a phrase at Axum that we move at the speed of trust
- To do something different, they need to trust you
- When I think of the discussions I've had with heads of states and CEOs, these meaningful inner ideas are not often brought up
LAURA
- When there's no trust, even if there is no danger, the trauma is still brought up
- We need to shift our lens on trauma and become aware of when trauma emerges
- quote - inner condition of the intervener determines the success of intervention - Bill O'Brien
LOUISE
- I work a lot with nervous system and body system
- We need small changes in our nervous system
- If I try to do something big, I can re-traumatize myself
- We also have a collective nervous system
- Restore love to all parts of your system first
- Make friends with trees to seed actions from union
JOHN
- Become aware of my own trauma triggers
- When we see an outsized reaction, we can guess that person is undergoing personal trauma
- A settled body settles bodies
- If we are calm, it helps calm others
LAURA
- Feel where we don't feel grounded, where we shame ourselves, feel compassion there
QUESTIONS
- See below
ANSWERS
- See below
LOUISE
- Organizations have a huge role to play at this time
- We want to reconfigure and transform the trauma
- Deep forming teams in organizations to help transform
- Trauma fields want to come through human nervous systems to transform
- We are both feminine and masculine and the masculine wounding is very important and needs to find the feminine
- We cannot go away by ourselves to heal from patriarchy, colonialism energies
ANNIKA
- In terms of how we fund, can we fund differently? We need to fund these spaces
EDWIN
- I sit on board of Wellbeing project - changemakers go through burnout - how do we prevent this and create a container that can sustain them?
- Weve brought 20,000 people in summits who have affected 3 million people. Please come to the Hurts summit in Czec and Wellbeing project
- When pendulum swings back from individual space, we should be like a spiral
JOHN
- In systems change spaces, trauma is seldom spoken of.
- Systems work will not work if we ignore trauma
- This is critical
LOUISE
- Arundhati Roy - Another world is not only possible but is on its way. On a quiet day, I can hear it breathing.