Rematriation, Renaturalization, & Intentional Living
WhollyHuman is as much a personal vow for its members as it is a hub for projects, resources, and offerings aimed at Earth reverence, conscious cultural change, community healing, and intentional living, all through a decolonial lens. We engage our different gifts and responsibilities toward a shared vision.
Mission Statement
We are sincerely dedicated to living in right relation with the Earth and to the liberation of all people. Toward this end, our mission is to participate in and support intentional communities of all kinds as we work to meet the present from a rematriated, decolonial, Earth-reverent perspective. This mission is an ongoing process of…
- Centering the access, needs, and voices of marginalized people.
- Deconstructing and relating beyond social concepts like gender, race, “productivity,” cis heteropatriarchy, and the nuclear family model.
- Planning and practicing agro-forestry, de-growth, transitional energy and infrastructure solutions, and closed-cycle waste/resource management.
- Supplementing community supports, including knowledge sharing and mutual aid.
- Curating intentional spaces for constructive exploration, processing, and play.
- Empowering people to exercise their attention and imagination as motivational and visionary tools.
- Recognizing trauma and facilitating its integration for healing.
We center non-binary black femme leadership in direct response to the limited access and representation among many spiritual, alternative and eco-active spaces—something we believe should be internally addressed by any group that claims to be “doing the work” to heal our society and planet. We also prioritize the needs and voices of Black, indigenous, femme, LGBTQ+, and differently-abled people in response to the patterns of colonization, patriarchy, privatization, industrialization, and inequality that are driving ecosystem collapse and humanitarian crises worldwide
We joyfully welcome more fortunate visitors to share their privileges, especially in ways that help fund and network our mission. We believe this best serves in the healing and liberation of all beings.
Vision Statement
WhollyHuman aligns its efforts with a vision of a post-colonial, re-matriated, re-naturalized world. The process of rematriation—of “returning the Sacred to the Mother”1—is more about reincorporating a way of viewing the world than it is about returning to a place or time.2 The process of re-naturalization seeks to address a history of exploitation and supremacy mindsets through humble and reparative relationship-building with the Earth and its stewards. By incorporating a rematriated and renaturalized vision to our selves, relationships, and spiritual journey, we’re able to adapt to challenges and opportunities with intention and accountability.
We embark on this transitional process not in an effort to save the world from climate change, nor to save humanity from colonialism. Rather, we aim to live adaptively, compassionately, and in right relation with the Earth because it’s appropriate and fulfilling, whatever the social or existential circumstances. Doing so makes it possible to create greater cultural and ecological change in the future and to live joyfully and harmoniously in the present. This is our purpose, responsibility, and birthright as human beings.
1 https://rematriation.com
2 https://jackfrombkln.medium.com/rematriation-an-end-to-patriarchy-3cfc73e019ab
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Francis – Transformation Chaperon
In response to what he sees as a global existential crisis, Francis mentors peers through the deep discomfort of participating in the little deaths of life, especially within the context of decolonization.
His perspective is informed by:
- the inherent wisdom in Earth’s many cycles of life, death, and rebirth
- relationships and solidarity with the exploited and the sacred
- his own experiences along the gender and ability spectra
- the karmic inheritance of whiteness and the power of overcoming toxic shame
For Francis, aligning with what it means to be more wholly human is an ongoing process of noticing and tending to the relationships that hold the world together. Individuals and entire cultures who abandon these relationships are at risk of feeling isolated, unfulfilled, and unloved by their community, their greater power, and themselves. Reality is composed of relationships, from the micro to the macro, and we create meaning out of this relativity. For his part, Francis finds great meaning in giving back, especially to the land and its many living beings.
Despite its inherent simplicity, however, this work is by no means easy. It’s fraught with legal, ethical, cultural, and practical complications. These challenges are part and parcel with the karmic implications of supremacy mindsets and cultures, and the many identities that are created and defended as a result. Again and again, Francis finds himself noticing and tending to the ends of things, where histories and identities are unraveled and the liberated threads are woven into something new. Great and small, the deaths in our lives mark the moments of our greatest potential for love and creation.
Following fifteen years helping his community adapt practically and existentially to a changing technological and social landscape, Francis now creates space for the confusion and discomfort of processing what’s been lost, and for the work that’s ahead. Through conversation and ritualization, he mentors peers during times of big change in a process he calls “renaturalization.”
Transformative re-naturalization is the slow work of reintroducing ourselves to the many beings already native to the places our more recent ancestors failed to properly introduce themselves to. In combination with personal research and accessible actions toward reconciliation, we come to understand the healthy humility necessary to relocate into a new web of relationships, and our concepts of self are softened by an alignment with something bigger. Rooted and networked, we can endure our fear of the looming unknown and step into our birthrights and responsibilities.
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