*(Playing with site re-design, might see things shift around for the next few months on here. -Megs)

Community Research and Intervention as Resource, Not Remedy

Tending to the embodied intelligence and collective sovereignty of the Seventh Generation through Indigenist, Somatic, and Arts-Based Praxis

In this space, we move beyond the clinical "fix." We recognize that standard social work structures can often be extractive. We choose Moorings over Metrics. Our work is:

  • Indigenist: Grounded in land, story, ritual, and reciprocity.

  • Ceremonial: Research is not a distant observation; it is a sacred practice of communal witnessing.

  • Embodied: We stay with the charge, texture, and speed of our lived experiences.

  • Abolitionist: We enact resistance through the refusal of neutrality.

The Four R’s of TRU Footing:

  1. Relational Accountability: Being in right-relationship with all our kin.

  2. Respect: Honoring the sovereignty of the body and the story.

  3. Reciprocity: A continuous loop of giving and receiving.

  4. Reverence: Holding the "messy and communal" with deep awe.

 Tending the Charge, Metabolizing the Harm.

Our interventions are Creational, not Clinical. We prioritize the human body’s intelligence over cognitive process.

1. Somatic Tending (VIMBASI Framework) We work with the Vibes, Images, Meaning, Behaviors, Affect, Sensation, and Imagination that live in the skin and bone.

  • Vagus Nerve Conditioning: Tending to the "constriction" to stay with the charge of racialized and systemic trauma.

  • Communal Co-Regulation: Practice that moves beyond "self-care" into the "Cultural Glue" that holds us together.

2. Narrative Repair & Realismo Mágico Drawing from my background in Book Arts, we treat the "book" of the self as a site for structural repair.

  • Bibliotherapy: Engaging with the "magical realism" of our lives through the works of Urrea and other decolonial voices.

  • Creative Resistance: Using songwriting, bookbinding, and visual narrative to metabolize grief and gnaw at the structures that seek to silence us.

3. Research as Resource (CerBPPR) We facilitate Ceremonial-Based Participatory Practices. We treat the gathering of data as a ritual of belonging.

  • Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR): Centering youth as the architects of their own health systems.

  • Interactive Witnessing: Turning research "findings" into participatory art exhibits and community resources.

 

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