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.