Kaleidoscope: Grief & Grieving
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These kaleidoscope sessions are an important focus for us. We're interested in bringing in curiosity around culture and community, so we'll be exploring grief and grieving in particular through the multiple lenses of cultural expression and the role community plays. We see these explorations as part of the critical process of engaging cultural reflexivity (looking at the culture of whiteness and the lingering impact of coloniality that has, and continues, to impact how we experience ourselves) and building culture.When we know what no longer serves us and can begin to engage it critically, we initiate a process of reaching for what we do want to see more of and what serves us personally and communally.
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Karine Bell makes her home with her two kids, her partner and a dog.
She’s a somatics teacher and abolitionist, dedicated to embodied trauma
alchemy. A bi-cultural black woman, she’s also a culturally reflexive anthropologist exploring the intersection of where our bodies/psyches/experiences meet our collective histories.
She believes in the healing made possible at the personal and collective level by the work we do through transforming experience in our bodies today. She combines continued study in somatics with studies in depth psychology with a focus on community, liberation, indigenous and eco-psychologies at Pacifica.
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