Whew, Dare! This is what increasingly many of us are sensing stirring amongst and inside us, yet it feels (for most... for me...) so... fumbling and vague and terrifying: "The history of real humans is the history of an animist anarchism that willfully and continuously rejected the centralization and weaponization of their bodies and the land by States and their agents."
Working my way through this piece and just got to the part about IFS! I was noticing your work and IFS together was helping me understand how to use IFS as a practitioner, but I take all western modalities with a grain of salt. That being said seeing your critique really struck me and id love to talk to you more about this, am curious if you've written about this elsewhere? Not looking for a defensive, I am sure I agree with you haha but I don't have the language yet to articulate. One of my goals this summer is to work with you 1:1. Thank you as always for your insights and sincerity and care.
I have not (and dont plan on) writing just about ifs because 1: i dont want to focus on the negative, 2: im sure there are indigenous and black practitioners who are using it well, 3: i have sprinkles my critique out across many things ive said.
My main thesis as it were… is that view (story) trumps method (actions) everytime.
Ive seen firsthand how colonized well meaning white ppl use ifs (and other modalities) to further entrench their own biases, preferences and narrative cosmologies. For example, using ifs to have “big feelings” and “grief” and “ancestral channeling” and call that healing. Its lunacy. Pure lunacy.
So we have to back way way up and really examine our premises and then carefully interact with the ecology-systems, knowing full well that our habitual inability to manage intensity and habitual defenses distort out relational perception.
Whew, Dare! This is what increasingly many of us are sensing stirring amongst and inside us, yet it feels (for most... for me...) so... fumbling and vague and terrifying: "The history of real humans is the history of an animist anarchism that willfully and continuously rejected the centralization and weaponization of their bodies and the land by States and their agents."
thanks for reading!
Working my way through this piece and just got to the part about IFS! I was noticing your work and IFS together was helping me understand how to use IFS as a practitioner, but I take all western modalities with a grain of salt. That being said seeing your critique really struck me and id love to talk to you more about this, am curious if you've written about this elsewhere? Not looking for a defensive, I am sure I agree with you haha but I don't have the language yet to articulate. One of my goals this summer is to work with you 1:1. Thank you as always for your insights and sincerity and care.
I have not (and dont plan on) writing just about ifs because 1: i dont want to focus on the negative, 2: im sure there are indigenous and black practitioners who are using it well, 3: i have sprinkles my critique out across many things ive said.
My main thesis as it were… is that view (story) trumps method (actions) everytime.
Ive seen firsthand how colonized well meaning white ppl use ifs (and other modalities) to further entrench their own biases, preferences and narrative cosmologies. For example, using ifs to have “big feelings” and “grief” and “ancestral channeling” and call that healing. Its lunacy. Pure lunacy.
So we have to back way way up and really examine our premises and then carefully interact with the ecology-systems, knowing full well that our habitual inability to manage intensity and habitual defenses distort out relational perception.