When facilitating difficult conversations, you need to remember your spiritual tools.

Spiritual tools don’t always have a clear place in your agenda. But it’s important for us to carry them as facilitators.

I was facilitating a group of Black, Indigenous, People of Color when a storm broke out in the group. People were sharing pain, trauma, and anger. We knew we needed to do something different to help this group. So an indigenous mother who lived next door ran home to gather her sage. When she returned, she smudged out the space, people cried to release their pain, and my co-facilitator and I supported participants through energy work.

It was spiritual.

Now no one signed up for a spiritual workshop. But they did sign up for a workshop to help them be better change makers.

As you do liberation centered change work, you are invited to honor indigenous wisdoms.

Spirits and energy are recognized by people across the world. You can facilitate while staying letting the wisdom of spirit flow through you. But this requires you to do root chakra work.

Root charka work helps you stand in your dignity and remember your right to be.

Your root chakra connects you to the earth, because you, as you are, have a right to exist on this earth.