My focus in all my work is on nurturing loving and life-giving relationships and re-membering inherent sacredness – within ourselves, with each other, and with all that is.
My focus is on doing so in ways that catalyze us to take action to shift systemic violence (at all levels – internal and external) and move towards collective liberation – in the ways that we are most specifically called to do; based on our soul’s direction, the gifts we come to the world with, and the circumstances we are born into.
The most powerful tools I bring are my capacities for presence, my deep and multi-layered listening, and my abilities to perceive patterns and facilitate connection, movement, and clarity.
Hi! I’m Griffen. My ancestors came from Northern and Western Europe and we have been settlers, from christian lineages, on this land (the so-called US) for multiple generations. Core to my life and work is sitting and moving with the question of how to live into healing, justice, and collective liberation amidst the many violences and also great beauty that I was born into and am a part of.
The early part of my life included some significant trauma and a great deal of dissociation. In my mid-20’s I experienced the beginnings of returning to my physical body and the wisdom and healing (and pain and complexity) to be found there, simultaneous to finding more politicized communities to learn from/with and to be part of. My ongoing healing journey and my engagement with social justice movement work have happened in deeply entwined and inseparable ways since then.
I’ve been rooted in the Midwest (where I was born, but is not where I grew up) starting in 2007. I’ve spent some significant time living on and being shaped by both the East and West Coasts of the so-called United States and Canada.
With my gratitude to the many that have and continue to co-create who I am and what I offer – friends, family, practitioners, teachers – humans and non-humans of many kinds.
I have been deeply shaped by the Indigenous, Black and Brown led movements that I have been/am a part of and the generous teachers that have come into my life through those movements.
I have also been profoundly shaped by the kindness of strangers and the teachers that have shown up in the most unexpected ways, times and places in my life in small and large ways.
I am sustained by close-in loved ones and broader layers of communities.
My newly arrived child centers me in purpose and is transforming me in ways I have yet to have words for.
And I owe my life to the many non-human beings who have caught and held me in this life so generously so very many times, with a particular shout out to my rock and water friends and family.
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