HOMEcoming’s Mini Radical Sabbatical: Decolonize, Dismantle, Dive Deep

On Social Conditioning and Rest

Rest is all the rage these days, or at least it is in my world. Particularly since I was voluntold by the Universe and my Spirit Team that the time had long come for me to leave my traditional work in human services. I accepted their cosmic command and was ushered out of that inhumane system also known as the non-profit sector. I didn’t realize how oppressive that system was until I had extricated myself from it.

I am a caregiver in recovery on my return journey to Self.

Tricia Hersey’s Rest Is Resistance, all 200 pages, was the invocation I needed to dive deep into the alchemical process, and I mean all of it –calcination, dissolution, separation, conjunction, fermentation, sublimation, radiation (as outlined by Catherine MacCoun). I started off my own Radical Sabbatical, tending to myself like never before, like I was praised and encouraged to do for adults as a child, like I was underpaid and undervalued to do for survivors, like I was implicitly expected to do for loved ones. But this time it was for myself, on my terms. And the results have been Divine and radical.

Through my own self-guided Radical Sabbatical process, I finally started to offer myself the care and attention that I had offered others my whole life, and with that embarked on an unraveling descent into devastatingly painful, dark, brutal, raw, powerful, healing, and beautiful spaces. 

I continue to tend to Self and now offer facilitation for others through HOMEcoming’s Mini Radical Sabbatical: Decolonize, Dismantle, Dive Deep. The first session on October 13^th will be focused on Social Conditioning and Rest and is grounded in one of Hersey’s tenets:

“Rest is a form of resistance because it disrupts and

pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.”

Speaking from my truth, here are a few things that come up for me about this tenet:

I’m looking forward to facilitating thoughtful, strengths-based, spiritually embodied discussion and practices about these questions together. What you discover may have the potential to transmute what no longer serves you, which may in turn prepare you to decolonize, dismantle, and dive deep into our collective potential for healing and liberation. A tall order? Yes, if we are alone. But together we can make lighter this needed work.

My offering to you in our Radical Sabbatical:

• Co-created, safe space with nourishing snacks and hot tea

• Engaging conversation about the systemic issues we all face together and individually

• Embodied practices you can take with you to ground your daily life

If you’re in the Louisville area and feel called to share in space and conversation about social conditioning and rest, please join us at HOMEcoming’s Mini Radical Sabbatical: Decolonize Dismantle Dive Deep on Sunday October 13^th for some tending to Self in community. This will be the first in a weekly series this fall, so check the calendar and if the first date doesn’t work for you, please do check other dates as well. And if you’d like to have a HOMEcoming Radical Sabbatical experience for your private group or team, I am accepting bookings through 2025.

Mad love and care,

Arlene

P.S.

If you’d like to start contemplating this tenet in community with me, you are welcomed to leave a comment reflecting on these two questions: What is restful to you? What is not restful to you? I’m interested in hearing from you.