Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

As the Salt Spring Island author Toko-Pa Turner writes in her profoundly beautiful book Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home (2017) "The world has never been more connected, yet people are lonelier than ever.  Whether we feel unworthy, alienated, or anxious about our place in the world - the absence of belonging is the great silent wound of our times."

Toko-Pa continues "Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and they may spend a lifetime searching for it in vain.   But what if belonging isn't a place at all?  What if it's a skill...or a set of competencies that has been lost or forgotten?"

Inspired by Toko-Pa's writings and her online dreamwork courses, I will be sharing with you in the 2019 winter class season some of the competencies of belonging that can "heal our wounds and restore true belonging to our lives and to the world" (Toko-Pa Turner).