Restoring Relationship, Healing Community
Nature: The Sacred, Natural Design, & Relationship
Restoring Relationship, Healing Community
Evolving sustainable culture via nature, deepening connection, and healing interpersonal/transpersonal relationship, we create new experiences that can act as a catalyst to galvanize our local-global communities toward regenerative existence.
Research has shown that childhood invalidation, abuse, trauma and other life long adversity severely impacts emotional regulation and the ability to connect, feel safe, and engage in healthy relationships. Trauma and emotional dysregulation affects executive functioning and can lead to stress response overstimulation and acquired neurodivergence. High levels of cortisol (stress hormone) significantly contribute to hormonal, metabolic, and immune imbalances/dysfunction and chronic health conditions (i.e., diabetes, high blood pressure/cardiovascular disease, cancer). Affirming, healthy relationships provide support and protective benefits by helping to re-establish connection, safety, and trust; which, assists in reducing stress, emotional dysregulation, executive dysfunction, anxiety, and inflammation. Inflammation is a key factor in disease development.
A Research-Based Model Embodying Nature for Relationship Renewal
The Harmony Project was initiated to help nurture regenerative, altruistic connection, and interpersonal/transpersonal relationship via our connection and relationship with Nature. Our Natural Design: Holistic Health, Healing, and Environment research-based model embodies the knowledge of Nature’s inherent relationships (includng natural cycles, rhythms, and flows). The integrative application of this knowlege interwoven in ancient, Ancestral-Indigenous, and Eastern wisdoms; healing technologies; wellbeing self-practices; and relational/folk/ethno-botany is essential in remembering and cultivating our deeper connections. Inner relationship and personal healing work are cultivated and supported to engender altruistic interactions and community.
The Conservatory’s model is a heart-centered, nature-informed approach to restoring relationship/community and contributing to the renewal of humanity. Holistic health and healing address our experience as Spirit embodied and discovering deeper awareness of Self and the true nature of our existence. This includes creating balance and maintaining fluidity (natural ebb and flow) of our energy, emotions, states of consciousness, inner-external environment, and the navigation of everyday experiences and challenges. Workshops, classes, 1:1 and group sessions, and nature immersion retreats support personal healing work for rematriation, reclamation, and re-storying of individual, ancestral/family, and collective narrative and experiences. The NSC provides affordable offerings to increase accessibility and support underserved/disadvantaged populations who are often disproportionately BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in the personal-collective work to heal, develop, grow/expand, and experience freedom to live fully from truth, creative purpose, and prosperity.
The Harmony Project consists of:
- ReSET Healing Communities Program & Mediation
- Natural Design: Restorative Living & Sacred Space Curation
- Heart Journeys: A Path to Personal & Collective Healing
- Culture of Sustainability (COS) Collaborative, Applied Research, & Leadership Program
The ReSET Healing Communities Program and Mediation offers heart-centered, safe space and resources for recovery from adversity/trauma (personal, multi-generational) and restoring inner relationship. In addition to healing depthwork, authentic expression is explored while developing an aligning narrative (re-storying) with additional tools to shift ways of navigating interactions and being in relationship. Integrative groupwork with 1:1 support sessions help to heal personal and collective (conscious/unconscious) emotional pain and trauma (i.e., personal, transgenerational, cultural, historical +) as well as holistically improve community health, wellbeing, and quality of life. Individual work in supportive community nourishes the heart-soul, deepens inner relationship, and cultivates restorative, reciprocal relationships with others. ReSET Mediation and Community Restoration assist groups, organization, and communities with navigating interpersonal challenges, grievances, and conflict resolution. We support diverse people who have endured traumatic adversity, often living within underserved, disadvantaged communities and disproportionately BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color).
Natural Design: Restorative Living & Sacred Space Curation applies the model to deepen inner relationship creating a lifestyle and living environment in relationship with nature as sanctuary for holistic health, wellbeing, growth, and development. Curating sacred space, infusing nature and natural elements into our home, resets us from day-to-day experiences that contribute to elevated stress response, mind-body imbalances/dysregulation, and dis-ease as well as emotional overwhelm and trauma. The concept topophilia and related studies have shown that people who love their environment are drawn to restorative spaces that benefit their health helping them enjoy a high quality of life. One study’s participants associated their environment with feelings of connection or belonging, safety, comfort, and well-being. The internal harmony of our spirit-heart/mind-soul-body (inner environment) can nurture and harmonize our home/living environment in a similar way. As we holistically heal, we are able to balance and restore our inner relationship and relationships with others. This engenders a cohesive inner and home/living environment that is calming, peaceful, and restorative…sacred space.
Heart Journeys: A Path to Personal & Collective Healing includes a monthly healing group that assists with emotional pain/wounding and soul loss from oppression of the spirit and trauma (personal, intergenerational, transgenerational, ancestral, community, ethnic/cultural, historical +); while, nourishing the spirit-heart/mind-soul-body to experience restoration, growth, development, peace, balance, and a revitalizing living environment that supports whole life health and wellbeing. Unhealed trauma may create challenges with health conditions, social interactions, relationships, communications, and contribute to micro-/macro-aggressions and other harmful actions against one another. Individual work in supportive community nourishes the spirit (and the spirit aspects of heart-soul and the mind-body), deepens inner relationship, and cultivates altruistic, reciprocal relationships with others further developing vibrant connection. One-to-one sessions also are available for a more in-depth focus.
The Culture of Sustainability (COS) Collaborative is a diverse nature-based, community of individuals, organizations, and businesses unifying vision to develop innovative models, methods, and strategies toward altruism, transformative learning/justice, social-economic-environmental restoration, stewardship, and sustainable local/global communities. People learn, develop, and work together drawing from experientials of Ancestral-Indigenous and Eastern wisdoms, heart journeys, inner inquiry, noetic/multiple ways of knowing, nature immersions, applied research, and interdisciplinary studies. We address the intersectionality of local-global issues (i.e., poverty, discrimination, and subjugation; housing-food-resource insecurity; violence and systemic aggression; and overconsumption/natural resource depletion +) that affect the planet’s ecosystems, social-economic development, holistic health and wellbeing, and our quality of life. The connection between societal structure and relationship development has far reaching implications in co-creating a sustainable culture that is harmonized with the environment.
The Sustainable Community Design (SCD) Leadership certificate program provides nature-based, holistic relationship and community building training to become effective altruistic stewards and change agents. The curriculum includes a social ecopreneurship startup community with a hybrid co-operative and incubator. We help participants to develop an eco-based vision/mission, clarify strengths and needs, and design practical strategies/tools. Assistance and resources are provided for increasing economic, housing, and food security; while, reducing the individual-collective carbon footprint and general over-consumption. This program helps to increase altruistic presence and resources in underserved, disadvantage, and communities while contributing to the restoration of the planet.
The COS Collaborative and SCD Leadership Certificate Program are instrumental in the model development and establishment of the ReSET Healing Communities Program and Mediation. This is the first of several nature-based, regenerative projects to co-create holistically supportive, community. We assist diverse people who have endured traumatic adversity, often living within underserved, disadvantaged communities and disproportionately BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The ReSET Healing Communities Program and Mediation promotes integrative resources, trauma recovery and increase altruistic presence for all people acknowledging the special needs of underserved, disadvantage populations; while, contributing to the restoration of the planet.
The Harmony Project provides a multi-dimensional approach for engaging in dialogue and co-creating effective resources and tools for reducing our collective carbon footprint and general over-consumption. Our work is to increase altruistic relationship and contribute to the healing of communities and the Earth. Contact us to learn more and participate in the Harmony Project!