Twelve Steps
Twelve step therapeutic environments
are probably as old as resonant light and color,
measured in resilient octaves,
and double-bound fractal half-octaves,
learning to listen deeply and widely 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 re-ligious culture reconnecting multicultural 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 healing opportunity,
and not harming risk,
for those who are vulnerable and wise enough
to embrace this simplicity of transparent being
life-long healthier
vulnerably open toward win/win
mind/body
crown/root wu-wei becoming.
Becoming accepted
and accepting
as who we are right now,
with all our scabs showing,
is trauma-informed therapeutic.
Wise evangelists,
therapists of wounded egos
and fragile ecosystemic environments,
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 Earth-family tree,
this organic vocational team,
this sacred meeting,
this beloved and often bemused community
this unlikely living moment,
this unremarkably cooperative day,
this empowering compassionate transaction
within sacred Earth's polyculturing healthcare network.
What is our optimally shared
and inclusively valued vocation?
to fulfill who we truly are health becoming,
with our systemic trauma scars
acknowledging our shared escape addictions
to dominate irreligiously dissonant 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 neurodiverse
healthy creatures we are already,
integrating body nature
spirit minding best we can
with whom we are becoming better together, committed
and loving how we are already evolving
politically and economically healthy ecosystemic networks
of cooperatively nested communionation,
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
empowering our mutual health defined
much enlightened therapeutic wealth
refined by time's rebuilding spacious paths
toward Lake Woes-Be-Gone resilience.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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