Meet
the four
separations
In these days of significant disruption and uncertainty, many say we are experiencing a crisis of meaning. I call it a crisis of connection. I believe there are four separations to focus on — Self, Others, Earth, and Mystery.
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Here’s what separation looks like:
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The numbing, endless phone scroll
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Being afraid to talk to neighbors
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The pandemic of loneliness
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Power abuse and power surrender
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Sanitized lives that disconnect us from the impact of thoughtless extraction
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Corporatized religion and spiritual rhetoric that has removed awe from the sacred
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Forgotten ancestors and relinquished inheritance
These are all symptoms of a deep spiritual crisis. Finding a way forward requires a hard truth-telling look inside ourselves to see in what ways we have surrendered our true nature and power.
Now,
experience a
homecoming
John O'Donohue wrote that when we experience authentic beauty, it feels like a homecoming. Beauty awakens something true inside us that maybe we have lost touch with. Beauty is a shared language that can in fact transcend our differences. Beauty has the ability to pull us up and out of the low frequency buzz of fear and despair.
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I have designed a series of experience to help you do just that. Organized by the four separations, you can choose where you want to start. Invite a loved one, your team, or your community. All of these are designed to help each of us tune in and tune up, helping us find our way back to ourselves and each other. This is how we begin to heal our world.
Experience the power of beauty for yourself.
Through a series of guided ceremonial gatherings, awareness practices, and intentional beauty encounters, participants spend focused time healing each of the Four Separations—self, others, nature and the mystery. These encounters are designed for anyone feeling the call to move beyond surface-level aesthetics into beauty as a healing and revolutionary force so that they can remember the reason we are alive.
This experience is a way to discover the truth of our identity, enabling us to embrace our own unique power. In this process, we realize our true inheritance received at birth as well as what has been passed down to us from generation to generation through our families, our ancestors, and our culture. This journey leads to the natural emergence of our life purpose. For individuals, couples and teams.
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