Hi everybody. Welcome to Becoming the People Podcast. My name is Prentiss

Sempill. I'm an author. I'm an embodiment facilitator and I'm one of the

founders of the Embodiment Institute. You know the thing I've really been with lately is this question that follows me around that I'm living inside of and

this question really is what will it take for us to heal as a species?

What does it take for us to change deeply? And I know that this

question is not a question that any person can answer, any one person can answer. Any one person can answer.

It's not even, I think, a question that can be answered in a lifetime.

I think it is a generational question and one that we are just picking up the threads of and hopefully moving further along for the next generation.

One piece that has really come through for me and helped me understand what the task is, is that the real key to transformation

and change is relationship. We need each other and we heal in and through relationship. So if that's true,

the question that it leads me to is how do we continue to value relationship?

How do we practice inside of relationship and our families and our communities.

So what I'm sitting with now, how do we create relationships that themselves are the basis

for power that can withstand hardship, that can withstand

crisis, that can withstand repression. As a global community, we are witnessing and also experiencing for some really devastating conditions right now.

Devastating violence.

We are living through climate change. now. Devastating violence.

We are living through climate crisis and experiencing political repression around the world.

I know through my own life and I know through my work how overwhelming this

moment can be for our individual bodies. I know how much we are incentivized not to feel.

So with this podcast, I wanted to create a space where we could be with these questions,

feel into these questions. Feel into these questions.

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