FireSeed Facilitation

12/31/2022

Dr. DoLess here! (aka Ingrid Tischer)

Check out our community's New Years Resolution ideas in Amanda Morris's terrific Washington Post article from Emily Ladau, Dawn Gibson -- and me! (And many other insightful advocates.)

Amanda's great questions made me realize that my crip-joy is so much about reclaiming access to failing and quitting and risk. And feeling like all of that's OK. Because the idea that I'm too frail to fail is ableism.

But really truly believing that is not so easy because failing and quitting etc. are still privileges for many many people who don't have a safety net to protect them when they want/need to take a risk.

So to protect my tender bits from all that chronic exposure to ableism, I'm going to apply high SPF (Silly Pointless Fun) daily to my life in 2023.😜

Many disabled people say their experience of coming to terms with their disability fundamentally shifted the way they approached goal-setting.

11/01/2022

🎃 Happy Halloween to all The Great Pumpkins out there who are feeling imposter syndrome for all kinds of reasons. It's a heckuva trick the dominant culture plays on us about how much we're supposed to be able to do.

🎭 The good (?) news: You're not the only one feeling like you're about to be found out behind your "I Am TOTALLY Keeping Up With Everything" mask.

So maybe try making tomorrow Bring Your Sustainable Limits To Work Day. Your treats will include not feeling responsible for fixing our whole culture!

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06/24/2022

11/06/2020

Let us honour our rage and make space for those whose rage needs more space and love

“I am only able to sleep
dreaming of volcanoes
which peel away the surface and explode and melt down what is
which decimate and steal and swallow and change
which become glass and then green island
which become breeze and beach and whale watching
and song and fruit and dance
and children and children and children
when I feel it inside me
this raging molten flow of the truth
I can only rest remembering
life comes from the eruptions
and nothing you’ve made will last“
http://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/10/22/this-massive-rage-poem/

'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' – camus…documenting my liberation

09/30/2020

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02/14/2020

For all of us who need a reminder that our body is a good body

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01/29/2020

Giving myself permission to relax into ease today.
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Giving myself permission to relax into ease today.
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01/17/2020

Help support accessible supports for feelings and flourishing!

FireSeed Facilitation is some of the most meaningful, political and transformative work I have ever done.

Right now, I have more asks for support than I have time to give. This is in a large part to the fact I need to work another job in order to financially survive. I would love to be able to spend more time doing FireSeed but don't want to shift the financial burden onto the individual people I have conversations with.

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01/09/2020

Don’t mistake yourself for too much when it is the world that is not enough.
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09/05/2019

Lorraine is a huge influence on how I think, feel, support around death and dying. This is a wonderful interview with her.

content note: stories of death, loss, mention of abusive relationships

In episode #068 Chris meets with Dr. Lorraine Hedtke and they discuss how grief is frequently thought of as an ordeal we must simply survive. In this episode Dr. Hedtke offers a fresh approach to the negotiation of death and grief, founded in principles of constructive conversation and narrative pra...

06/10/2019

I always feel uncomfortable when people start spouting out their degrees and accreditations. Especially when these letters are used to prove someone's ability to provide meaningful and valuable care and support.

We need to be suspicious of institutions' growing monopoly on "legitimate" knowledge and recognized learning; Institutions that have long and ongoing histories of pathologizing and actively harming marginalized people. We need to ask what harmful systems are maintained and expanded by the professsionalization of care. And who is actively excluded from being recognized as valuable and legitimate practitioners because they refuse (or are excluded by) professsionalization.
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06/03/2019

Everyone I work with can do this work without me. I believe in their power, knowledge and skills. My role is to make the work easier, safer, more enjoyable, more accessible and less lonely. That's why I call my work facilitation.
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05/28/2019

AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE SUPPORTS FOR FEELINGS, FLOURISHING AND TRANSFORMATIVE FUTURES

Hi, I'm Daley (they/them).

I am a white disabled non-binary trans counsellor/facilitator offering pay-what-you-can, accessible, anti-oppression informed supports for individuals, groups and organizations.

These supports include therapeutic conversations, workshops for individuals and organizations and supports for other practitioners.

This work is about facilitating your right to self-determination, healing and transformation in ways that create the worlds you and your communities need.

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05/27/2019

Your survival, your wellbeing, your growth and transformation are your birthright. Healing is not a commodity.
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05/06/2019

So much gratitude to Mia Mingus for these words.

"We can start with our self-accountability and the ways that we don’t show up for ourselves. We can acknowledge how most of us are in an abusive relationship with ourselves. We blow past our own boundaries, we punish and beat ourselves up in terrible ways. We can start with the ways we treat and talk to ourselves—ways that we would clearly recognize as abuse if it were being done to another person. After all, our abusive relationship with ourselves lays the groundwork for an abusive world."

  What if accountability wasn’t scary? Take a breath and let that sink in for a second. What if accountability wasn’t scary? It will never be easy or comfortable, but what if it wasn’t scary? …

04/17/2019

I know a lot of people are struggling right now with the awful election results. And I want to offer my time and energy and support with no cost one-time sessions, online and over the phone. To be held, listened to, validated and cared for exactly where you are at. Book online here: https://fireseedfacilitation.as.me/onetimesession

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03/21/2019

Survival often means we shut down parts of ourselves. Vulnerable parts. Angry parts. Parts we're told are bad, unworthy, unlovable. Sometimes we do this in order to keep them safe. Some times we do this out of shame and self-judgement. Sometimes both.
New struggles are emerging on the horizon for me. I can feel fear and self-judgement creep in, demanding I become less. And, I am commiting to bringing all of my parts with me. My sweet parts, my sad parts, my angry parts, my precocious parts. We are going to do this together.
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