While most of us think that change happens because we learn new ideas—and, yes, that is part of it—the deepest and most lasting change happens when we have new experiences and then integrate them into the larger story of our lives, and our collective story.20 Embodied experience is undeniably the most powerful channel of change. Ultimately, remembering our bodily selves, becoming embodied again, is slow work—it is compassionate instead of perfectionistic, communal instead of individualistic, process oriented instead of achievement oriented, and mutual instead of hierarchical. We cannot arrive
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