Together in community

Recently I spent 5 days in Cornwall, a long way from home for me nowadays. It was a training course that I was both participating in and delivering. Mostly though it was an experience of community or as it was put by Tony Riddle who led the course, Common-unity. 

I spent the time with 25 people who all had a shared purpose. We had the shared experience of all turning up for the same event, but we also shared a belief in the principles in which we want to live our lives.  

Most of all though we showed up as 25 vulnerable humans, who were there with a shared interest and bucket loads of curiosity to learn. We connected with people who we’d know online for a while as well as strangers who we’d never met before. 

We shared hugs, we shared meals, we shared experiences together. We sat in circle, and we listened with open hearts to one another as we shared our stories.  

We may have met as strangers, but we left as friends with full hearts.  

There was something powerful about us coming together as a group and doing things that would have felt uncomfortable to some of us had we done them alone. There was a depth to the conversations we had over meals, there was a warmth to which we greeted each other in the mornings.  

I came home exhausted from 5 days of full-on learning and activity but feeling so nourished on hugs and connection. It made me yearn for more. As humans we all need connection to others in our lives don’t we?  

We all need to feel as though we fit in, to find our place that feels like home. Where others see us for who we are and accept us, imperfections and all.  

I believe in living as close in alignment to and as much as I can within Nature. I believe that humans we are part of nature, and that separating ourselves as something other than nature is what creates the divide and subsequently the destruction of the environment that we partake in. 

Being in community with others is natural, we have always lived in tribes and communities. It's as easy to be connected with others today as it ever has been, yet we are disconnected from ourselves, from others and from nature.  

Humans need a tribe as bees need a hive as the saying goes and experiencing those five days with 25 people with a common-unity made that need come alive for me.  

One incredible thing to come out of that weekend for me was a collaboration with another wonderful woman, on a community for women. We want to share the sense of fulfilment we got from being in community with other likeminded women. If this sounds interesting to you check out www.wildwomenawakening.uk to learn more as our offering unfolds.  

Who are your tribe? Do you have people in your life who you have true connections with?

Do you spend time with people working towards a common purpose?  

If not, I urge you to seek them out to feel the love and fulfilment of connection.