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A Final Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change, Process Work Institute, Portland
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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Sinisterra_S_December_2012.pdf
Abstract
In this creative project, I used Colombia as a case study to show that accessing the dreaming and sentient realms of this land can be healing to citizens of a country that is entrenched in an identity of violence and hopelessness. A diverse group of participants was selected from various geographical areas of the country to take part in a guided meditation to find one’s earthspot, and then experience its message for the individual and the country as a whole. Documentation is in the form of a video that captures the testimony and the messages participants in this project experienced as a result of their connection to their earthspots. The language of the documentary is Spanish with English subtitles. It is intended for the Colombian people and the people of the world, to open to the possibility of connecting to their earthspots and exploring the sense of guidance, direction, and awareness of the messages our earth has for us at this moment in our history, as well as facilitating understanding about ways of being that can contribute to peaceful coexistence with ourselves and with our planet. Results indicate that the land spoke from an Elder’s perspective, inviting a magnanimous attitude and mindset towards other human beings and towards nature, honoring both the diversity and essential similarity of the Colombian people who took part in this study. The experience also suggested that listening to the land may offer an expanded sense of home not only externally in the traditional understanding of the word, but also internally as a deeper connection to self as well as a powerful sense of inner purpose.
Abstract
In this creative project, I used Colombia as a case study to show that accessing the dreaming and sentient realms of this land can be healing to citizens of a country that is entrenched in an identity of violence and hopelessness. A diverse group of participants was selected from various geographical areas of the country to take part in a guided meditation to find one’s earthspot, and then experience its message for the individual and the country as a whole. Documentation is in the form of a video that captures the testimony and the messages participants in this project experienced as a result of their connection to their earthspots. The language of the documentary is Spanish with English subtitles. It is intended for the Colombian people and the people of the world, to open to the possibility of connecting to their earthspots and exploring the sense of guidance, direction, and awareness of the messages our earth has for us at this moment in our history, as well as facilitating understanding about ways of being that can contribute to peaceful coexistence with ourselves and with our planet. Results indicate that the land spoke from an Elder’s perspective, inviting a magnanimous attitude and mindset towards other human beings and towards nature, honoring both the diversity and essential similarity of the Colombian people who took part in this study. The experience also suggested that listening to the land may offer an expanded sense of home not only externally in the traditional understanding of the word, but also internally as a deeper connection to self as well as a powerful sense of inner purpose.