Empowering Peace

All my favorite on-line EarthJustice and Transformation and Compassion and Global Peace resources are scientifically and inter-religiously sure we have all the information and physical resources needed for optimizing global healthy wealth, polyculturally and multiculturally resilient. Yet, at yesterday's municipal youth and family services community advisory board gathering I was not clear that anyone else in this squared circle thought we might better empower youth with or without mindfulness movement music ecotherapeutic practices to learn, mentor, experience nonviolent communication healthy dialogue opportunities at home, school, faith community, town and board and healthy democracy meetings. And, then, reflecting on these discussion experiences through deep listening with cooperative team learning, mindful compassion engagement in warm restorative co-invested trust-building awareness that it is OK, imperative in fact, to give priority discussion to our own past feelings of empowerment and enlightenment and present feelings of disempowerment and cloudy confusion, cognitive/affective dissonance illuminating memories of past resonance Feelings that active anti-communication and more passive discommunication and strategic miscommunication are not the same and yet are all in negative contrast to win/win multicultural healthy wealth communication of compassion Warm mutual regard, deep listening acceptance, acknowledgement, nuanced appreciation; which could not compromise solidarity and trust and not just tolerating but courageously and curiously engaging complexity anger and fearful chaos, and cautiously managed mistrust. Solidarity trust compassion across cultures and traumatic climate histories and multiple generations empower productive bodies and regenerate meaning-filled sacred minds co-empathic LeftBrain mental health and co-passionate RightBrain spiritual wealth of bicamerally co-operative communication. It might help if the bipartisan city council would accept the Restorative Justice peer mediation team's invitation to discuss negative concerns and positive feelings about transformative unconditional warm co-passion, mutual regard, expansive curiosity, depolarizing intent healthy trust v unwealthy mistrust, business as patriarchally capital-infested anthro-monotheistically benighted retributive punishing win/lose competitive dysfunctional military-industrializing leftbrain dominant chaotic dissociation Cognitive/affective chronic trauma inducing lack of respect for multiculturally astute mental/physical hybrid health meaningful co-passionate open and trusting and vulnerable depolarizing dipolar communication About feeling frustrated that we apparently know how to achieve global peace but can't figure out how to empower our local at-risk adolescents with significant trauma histories triggered in isolated dysfunctional families Trauma punishing schools and school board and lose/lose reactive municipal governments and resident association meetings about uncivil wrongs and civil rights and liability insurance and not compassion reliability assurance Not really articulate about best practices mindful mental/spiritual indigenous health is nondualistic cooperative wisdom wealth That could systemically support deep listening co-passionate multicultural trust co-investments in restorative health justice mediation movement communication memory reassociation motion mindbody reconnection muse sublimation music reiteration multiculturing circles of integration And grassroots social justice immersion experiences and global outdoor cooperative nurturing nutritional ecosystemic peace compassionate win/win strategic mental health initiatives for resilient dialogue and ecotherapeutic design, resonant singing sustained polypathic empowering commitments, politically resilient full-circle starlit dancing.