The Well Web is a gathering space for us to remember, as Mary Oliver said, “our place within the family of things.”
The Call of Our Time
We are living in a time of unprecedented collective crisis. As the world around us is unraveling, many of us are awakening. We are feeling the deep inner stirring and call to be a part of the re-weaving; offering our gifts as threads to a collective tapestry in which we re-imagine whats possible for life on earth.
Even if you are paying attention, it’s easy to be overwhelmed just managing day to day living in our times.
Or maybe you are offering your gifts to the world but there is a sense that you drawing from an inner well that isn’t being replenished.
You may have already tried therapy, somatic modalities or spiritual practices and yet you’re still left wanting more.
These pain points are not the result of a personal failing, they are the symptom of existing within a dominant culture that cuts us off from most of what keeps us well.
We Need a Wider Web
The overwhelm and depletion many of us are feeling isn’t just emotional or psychological, it lives in our nervous systems. Understanding and knowing how to work with our nervous systems is at the heart of resiliency; and even being able to leverage personal and collective evolution out of crisis.
Our nervous system, like an ecosystem, can withstand storms of activation when well resourced. Ecosystems have shown us the way to resilience in the face of adversity: biodiversity.
Yet our culture has mono cropped our lives. We live as an isolated species cut off from the larger web of life. Without the nourishment available from a bio-diverse web, one in which we are woven intimately into connection with our well ancestors, more than human kin, each other and our own souls, our personal ecosystems can become small and desolated. Just as life out there would not thrive under these conditions, neither can the life wanting to live through us.
When we widen the web of our lives to include the larger living and unseen world, the resources we have to draw upon go from finite to infinite.
A New and Ancient Paradigm of Healing
In the field of psychology, we have made quantum leaps in our understanding of the nervous system. A key finding is that we like other mammals co-regulate, meaning regulate through relationship.
We are wired to connect. Its been said that trauma is the result of overwhelm coupled with aloneness. When we feel a sense of belonging we can resource ourselves and rebound from stress.
Yet, because psychology grew out of the dominant culture, we are still operating within a limited framework of whats possible. When we shift from the dominant cultural paradigm of materialism to the ancient framework of animism we come to remember that co-regulation can and does happen with our more than human kin all the time.
Further, co-regulation with the living and unseen world allows us to bio-diversify the sources of wellness we draw from. This makes us more resilient in times of collective crisis when we are all impacted by the same stressor.
WebWork is a transpersonal model of healing that combines modern day, somatic psychology with animistic, earth based healing arts.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
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