Twelve Steps
Twelve step therapeutic environments
are probably as old as therapeutic light and color,
measured in octaves,
and double-bound fractal half-octaves,
learning to listen deeply and resonantly well,
speaking after listening with integrating honesty,
compelling transparency, vulnerability,
open trust attendance.
Integrity includes accuracy and responsive gratefulness.
Because these are all optimal communication values,
PowerOver distancing strategies during gatherings
become diffuse
as this is a culture discovering shared success
through not trying to persuade others to do anything
we would not love to do with them.
This is a therapeutic discernment program
to mutually support each other
in not behaving addictively, hypnotically,
out of anger and fear attractions and aversions.
Mutual noticing,
accepting,
understanding empathic trust
celebrates this mutual right-now well-being commitment,
the only goal of each therapeutic environment,
each meeting,
each morning,
each day,
each life and death together;
which is why 12-steps are often experienced as therapeutic,
for those who are vulnerable and wise enough
to embrace this simplicity of being
life-long healthier becoming.
Becoming accepted
and accepting
as who we are right now,
with all our scabs showing,
is therapeutic.
Wise evangelists,
therapists of wounded egos
and ecosystemic environments,
used car salesmen,
used
and abused lives matter messiahs,
we all know redemption
through co-empathic experience,
hope replacing despair
following a mind/body path
from becoming known
to becoming intimately loved.
Our larger political and economic climatic challenges,
environmental threats,
highlight therapeutic urgency of building on this 12-step base
by learning how and why each of us is part of this family,
this vocational team,
this meeting,
this community
this moment,
this day,
this empowering compassionate transaction
within sacred Earth's polyculturing network.
What is our optimally shared
and inclusively valued vocation?
to fulfill who we truly are health becoming,
with our trauma scars
acknowledging our shared escape addictions
to dominate encultured consciousness
with illusions of ego-privileged
anthro-supremacy.
My 12-step daily moment-by-moment active hope
is for a more inclusive multicultural family and community
where we are mutually invested in loving each other
for whom and what
healthy creatures we are already,
integrating body nature
spirit minding best we can
with whom we are becoming together, committed
and loving how we are already evolving
politically and economically healthy ecosystemic networks
of cooperatively nested information,
co-invested in engaging
and con-celebrating
memories of therapeutic time.
Co-empathic,
co-mentored trusting love
is our prime sustained confluent sweet spot
for sustaining cooperative relationships
of mutual self-definition,
interpersonal refinement of wisdom,
but also transpecies evolutionary definition
and refinement of EarthTribe balance,
and transgenerational co-presence, DNA past informing
present incarnations, already carrying seeds of future regenerators,
reweaving and/or unraveling
our mutual polypathic 12-step lives.
We are a 12-step Tribe of EgoCentric EcoTherapists,
cooperatively researching,
designing,
and developing
our Public Here/Now
space/time
body/mind Cooperative.
A WinWin ReGenerating System
toward our mutually health defined,
much beloved therapeutic wealth
of time rebuilding paths
toward Lake Woes-Be-Gone resilience.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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