Weaving a Web
About the Map: Below you will find our interactive world map highlighting the growing web of individuals, communities, and organizations that comprise EARTH's community. For a full size version that is easier to interact with on mobile devices click here. Please take some time to explore each point on the map, with descriptions, photos, and links to support our community members and partners. Our map presents an inspiring story of grassroots healing, reclamation, and transformation. Join us as we add new threads to the web!
What Stabilizes the Web? EARTH values balance as a fundamental principle. Whether it is balance within each individual, between persons, the environment, or ideologies, balance is supported when we live with curiosity, acknowledge a multiplicity of truths, explore multiple realities, recognize possibility, and work towards collective responsibility and accountability. In Indigenous research, the concept of "etuaptmumk" -- a Mi'kmaw word for seeing clearly with both eyes -- embraces the development of balanced perspectives. When etuaptmunk first emerged, it aimed to serve as a guiding principle that encourages bringing together Indigenous and western ways of knowing to achieve richer understandings and better outcomes. EARTH believes in expanding this to acknowledge a multiplicity of social realities, cultures, contexts, interactions, and influences... all with strengths and challenges to be supported. To move ahead in this rapidly changing and highly uncertain world, a great deal of creativity, flexibility, and mutual learning is needed. This contextual and process-based approach involves using Indigenous, western, and other perspectives to explore our world; combining strengths for a more comprehensive view. EARTH does not decide what this picture looks like for any given individual, organization, or community, rather operates from the stance that each person and system can come to know themselves better and arrive at their own decisions and answers. We believe in creating space... space for magic - 'the right amount of energy at the just right time and for the right purpose' - to manifest.
EARTH's work is built upon many foundations, one of which is our long-standing collaboration with The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM). CMBM's contemporary model of mind-body medicine draws upon multiple wisdom traditions from around the world. This researched approach to stress and trauma healing and wellness promotion in kids, teens, and adults, has been implemented across a wide-variety of cultures and settings. EARTH members have been guiding the cultural adaptations of this approach to meet local needs including in Indigenous communities, the Persian culture, and others, with the aim of honoring sacred origins and remaining rooted in deep respect.
Join us as this web continues to weave itself, guided by the slender threads and unseen determinants to what is manifest and realized in our lives.