Guiding Practice Principles
Self and Community Determination
We remember who we are. This means that we can weather storms and at our core, there is resiliency, groundedness, and interconnectivity. From a rooted place, there is space for movement and flexibility. From a strong root, growth and expansion toward purpose is inevitable.
Creativity & Innovation
We are rooted, we are centered, and from those places of strength, we create. Possibilities are abundant within us and around us, and we trust our process of creation - of new ways of being, and making new worlds.
Interconnectedness
We are not separate. At our heart centers, there are threads that run between us. We fundamentally belong: we belong to and with each other and we belong as family within our natural world. We are woven together by the activating energy of love. In deep African and Kemetic wisdom, the heart is the seat of consciousness. In love, in our hearts, through devotion and compassion, we are freed. Love is the air that loosens old knots and carries pain and harm away so that we are open to connection.
Manifestation
In our throats, we hold the seeds of our intentions. Ancient Kemetic wisdom affirms that we can speak intentions into existence. We have the power to communicate and embody transformation. As interconnected spirits, we do not stop at seed, we crack open into the sprouting growth that is manifestation. This is a yearning place, the sound of our voices reaching up and out and towards each other to create and grow and restore.
Discernment
We determine what is valued, what nourishes us, and what poisons us. We know the difference and work skillfully toward healing and liberation. We use the power of emotions, intellect and strategic investigation, patience, spirit, ancestors, and wisdom to discern. We recognize the skill of visioning, how visioning draws a map. We recognize that discernment also means moving forward on the path that we have mapped. We must use our clarity of insight and act upon that clarity.
Wholeness
We awaken toward realizations of wholeness. We bring our multiplicities into a union, an elevated spaciousness that is unbound.