EMBODIED PRACTICES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE Mark Mooney, USA

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EMBODIED PRACTICES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
Mark Mooney, USA
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Global Breakdowns

• Climate change
• Overpopulation
• Energy Crisis
• Finite/disappearing natural resources
• World conflicts
• Food Shortages

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How did we get here?

• We can now arguably say that the reason we so
  effortlessly destroy our soil, the air we
  breathe, and the water we drink is because we
  live at a distance from our bodies. We can also
  say that it is because of this same disconnect
  that we allow conflict to escalate to violence
  instead of evolving to a creative resolution and
  the same bodily estrangement creates a growing
  gap between those that have and those that dont.
  When we live at a distance from our body we live
  at a distance from our self, and this makes us
  unable to feel ourselves conscience,
  self-reflection, imagination, intuition, energy,
  and a moral imperative are not accessible to us
  when we are disembodied.
• Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD

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History of Disembodiment

• Self is Nature
• Alphabet
• Monotheism - Dominion over nature
• Descarte/Rationalism

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Body Self

• Living Entity
• History/Shape
• Automatic Reactions
• Personality
• Body is Nature
• Social Context

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Body - SelfBody - Organization/InstitutionBody
- Culture

• History/Shape
• Automatic Reactions
• Personality
• Social Context

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The Body is a set of Practices

• Humans are incapable of not practicing
• People are their practices
• Organizations/Institutions are their practices
• Cultures are their practices

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Process of Change

• Attend to
• Aware of
• Choice
• Volition
• Action
• Accountability

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Practices for New Actions

• Center
• Face
• Extend
• Enter
• Blend

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Mark MooneyStrozzi Institute707-778-6505Mark_at_st
rozziinstitute.comwww.strozziinstitute.comThe
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