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Knowledge is located everywhere. We understand that to share knowledge is naturally about giving and receiving and is most pertinent the more locally this is applied. Because of this we encourage all kinds of knowledge development, sharing and critique in a range of communities, but particularly in those who have been subject to historical dispossessions and so become marginalised by systems and structures that still hold power over their ability to exercise healthy and wise choices in the different domains of life. We value intersectionality, and we know it to be layered and complex. People’s needs and environmental needs are also layered and complex: so all produce layered and complex knowledge systems. We feel that our work is important because we understand that because histories of disempowerment create trauma in individuals, communities and in the environment, it becomes difficult to return to more natural ways of being and connecting. Such trauma immobilises people, separating us from reclaiming our autonomy and capability to make healthy and secure choices about how to live in prosperity, relationship and with a sense of security. Our work is to challenge and change these ways of merely surviving by doing the kind of work that can reinvigorating healthier cultural and life practice – livity – through the medium of a combination of art practices, different forms of collective reasoning and somatic -embodied and reflective movement. Movement, in this instance, means the shifting of emotions, bodies and whole community relations. We feel that our work applies to a range of communities: those of local geographies, but increasingly and critically, those communities sharing a common interest, of communities of practice and between a community and their living environment to promote ecological healing and sustainable living. We aspire to support the creation of healthier and repaired individuals, communities and environments because each is entangled in each other (which we understand as Ubuntu) through paying attention to legacies of intersectional, transgenerational, individual and collective harm as well as all of our inherent capacities and capabilities for feeling, thinking, being and performing healing modalities.

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