Why?
To build communities that transcend predominant culture; choosing to be present to who we are and what is, over doing what’s comfortable, convenient, or profitable.
Mission
The mission of Radical Authenticity is to help people strengthen their connection to themselves, access to their own intuition, and build the relational skills to be true to who they are in every part of life. We want everyone to have safe spaces to practice vulnerability, conversations that open new ways of relating to each other and ourselves, support to heal our personal and collective trauma, tools for relational repair, and community that celebrates being the messy humans that we are.
“If you trade your authenticity for safety you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
- Brene Brown
Vision
What would it be like to experience a day where you wake up and are simply at peace. A day where you aren’t asked to make a series of self-suppressing choices just to get by. A day where you get to be the human that you are, and are appreciated for the gift that you are to the world. A day that ends with exhaustion not from over-working, but because your life and work are your Being well-used. A day where you go to bed knowing who you are, loving who you are, and truly feeling that you are loved for who you are.
What would it be like to exist in a culture where it is safe to try new things, make mistakes, change our minds, give up, and try again. Where people are free to be in a state of perpetual becoming; of re-discovering who they are and falling in love with what they find again and again. Where hard feelings are as welcome as the easy ones and no one has to choose between authenticity and survival.
What would it be like to live in a world where conflict is resolved through connection. Where harm is met with healing, accountability, and support rather than punishment and incarceration. Where it is safe enough to put down our armor, to soften and connect with our own humanity so that we can see the humanity in others. Where the feelings, needs, desires, and perceptions of every person are valued as essential to the process of repair. Where compromise is an antiquated concept because we now know that no one need give anything up to satisfy the needs of another.
Imagine allowing yourself to be exactly who you are as you are and discovering that, not only are you enough, you are exactly what the world needs.
Values
Giving voice to what is…
Witnessing our humanity
The Courage of Vulnerability
Intuition & body wisdom