The vivid grove is dedicated to moving, learning, creative evolution, and collective liberation. Collective Liberation is a phrase margit first encountered through the Bay Area's Catalyst Project: Anti-Racism for Collective Liberation. In their discussion of movement building and leadership training, they support revolutionary politics, strategic white anti-racist organizing, and effective dynamic and multiracial alliances. As a white practitioner and facilitator, I am guided by these principles as well, and wrestle with them as a cp-constitutive part of an embodied practice. The artistic and organizing work that comes through the vivid grove directly supports coalition work. Forms of oppression are lived and emergent through the lived and embodied experience, so liberatory practices move beyond a personal freedom and expand to support a radical collective transformation. This requires deep reflection, disruptions of status-quo. This takes time, projects move slowly, and the kind of time it takes allows for listening, humility, and an integrative experience step by step, with all the mistakes, joy, challenges, creativity, all.
