Routine and Rituals in Covid-19, Part One

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Heather Stringer, a facilitator at The Allender Center, therapist, and ritual-maker, to begin a conversation about the importance of ritual and routine in a season of traumatic disruption. What does the loss of our previously held routines mean for each of us, and how can creating rituals become life-giving during this time?

Resources:

Read a blog post by Heather Stringer about tuning into our bodies.
Listen to an episode of Makers and Mystics: Ritual Making and Performance Art

Watch a presentation Heather gave at The Seattle School titled “Breaking Frozen Seas: How Rituals of the Body Transform Clients and Communities”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:28.0	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, we have a absolute delight today. Often we have delight, but this is just a sweet gift to have a dear, dear friend, colleague with us. And let me
0:42.0	introduce Heather Stringer. Hi, Heather. Hi, Dan. Hi, Rachel. Good to be with you guys.
0:48.0	Heather is one of our great gifted presences in the Allender Center. She's a therapist. But what we're going to talk
0:58.6	today about is she is the most amazing ritual maker I've ever been in the presence of. And I don't
1:09.0	think I ever have met any other people who I would call ritual makers.
1:14.3	And yet, we're all ritual makers.
1:17.2	And so to open the door to this discussion, let me just say that in a COVID-19 era, we are having thousands of our basic routines ruined, changed, radicalized,
1:33.5	and many of us are needing routine to be able to even move slightly toward restoration
1:42.6	in the middle of this deep traumatic disruption. Without routine,
1:48.8	trauma will always become far, far darker. But routines and rituals have a lot of overlap,
1:58.7	but they are not the same. And what we want to invite you, the listener
2:02.6	to, is to be thinking about the importance not only of routine, but what it might mean to be
2:09.5	part of joining and co-creating with others, rituals that will sustain us as we move through this time. So, Heather,
2:21.8	I don't know how to begin this other than to begin to say, help us think through what you
2:29.0	see to be the disruption of the routines of your life right now, and we'll eventually get to rituals.
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