tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36007693.post796805129736885317..comments2023-09-25T07:34:07.054-06:00Comments on Tenneson Woolf: K'eTennesonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07083056310789084541noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36007693.post-1917663128390232542008-03-03T12:38:00.000-07:002008-03-03T12:38:00.000-07:00Tenneson - I posted the comment below on Chris' we...Tenneson - I posted the comment below on Chris' website also. For you I would like to add that I will miss the Boston AoH only because I have a big community celebration here that I am co-hosting! The theme intrigues me immensely and learning with you and your mates is a powerful magnet! peace, Kelly<BR/><BR/>Thank you chris and tenneson for harvesting your learnings for us. The Dine are powerful teachers. I learned life transforming lessons that still resonate and recycle -- about community, ritual, relations, power, hosting, healing -- in '86 when I responded to an invitation from the elders to come to Big Mountain and support their struggle against a government-fabricated Hopi-Navajo land dispute. <BR/>The elders welcomed the supporters with the most powerful gratitude. We were a messy collection of international lefties (comfortable with the language of power/who needs love?) and new agers (comfortable with the language of love/power is bad). The elders made us whole, connected, and useful simply by hosting/welcoming us with gratitude, immediatly orienting us to their ritual (sweat lodges) and putting us to work (digging ditches, herding sheep). <BR/>I returned in the 90's to the Chinle Health Center to work on a diabetes project and experienced the same hosting energy in the way that the Dine welcomed and valued Western/non-Indian medical providers.They brought us in to their way first and engaged our hearts through gratitude and profound lessons (the beauty way). Then they asked us to give what we had to offer.<BR/>I have drawn on this experience (I am the harvest) without great ability to give it legs (story, take aways). <BR/>Your learnings are helping me to write about it for the first time here....when I am working in a setting with 'supporters' and 'supported' (primarily community leadership around HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in science/medical based paradigms) I look for the place were Power-Love lives (maybe not exactly what Kahane means by Power, but a close cousin). How/where is the place where the 'supported' can truly lead the 'supporters' to give what they have to offer? I have yet had the opportunity/courage to ask 'what would it take to be/act as co-supporters?'<BR/>Peace, KellyKelly McGowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404356287817715982noreply@blogger.com