There are two days extremely meaningful approaching over the next few weeks. One happens to my birthday. The other is September 1st, which marks the beginning of National Suicide Prevention Month. For all who I’ve crossed paths with, you know a significant part of my personal & professional life is dedicated towards resolving causes of self harm & suicide. Even as a creative, the stage becomes a way to make the experience of confronting intergenerational trauma less intimidating than a doctor’s office. Yet for every speaking engagement, multiple hours are dedicated in needs assessments &/or designing interactive forums & series that center story based approaches to healing. There is no one cure for all pain. Yet a decade of qualitative date leads me to believe there will be a drastic decline across attempts of self harm when we shatter the idea that mental health & suicide are taboo topics for our communities, which furthers ideas of abnormality. This “Club of One” feeling enables internal hurt to become external action. As such, a simply yet powerful method to shift away from this suffocating paradigm is creating spaces to meaningfully engage the origins of our wounds & the possibility of another future. I invite you all today, three weeks from September, to begin conceptualizing your own gathering for your family, tribe, community, or institution. Imagine each space not alone, but a star interlinked on an obsidian quilt of human experience & emotion. If in need of support for idea design, resources in trauma foundation, or youth/elder relevant methodology, please inbox me. May the wounds heal. May the dreams grow. In times of terror, wage beauty *MGis | Mark Gonzales
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:00:57 +0000
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