The SOS Soul Soothing Station will be going online for one month starting April 15th, 2020 with students from Corcoran School of Art and Design/GWU Arts and Social Healing class and MANY others. Go to sossoulstation.org website to participate, activate and join us as an adaptive community learning to evolve in the times of Corona.
A message to the SOS Soul Station Students from Molly when COVID hit:
There is a message of support I want to give to you today.
There is a moment in any creative process when we move from ideation and experimentation into form. This process of manifesting often involves moving about on a spectrum between disorientation, illumination and clarification. This is the place where we get to develop the true muscles of trust, faith, and presence in the face of the unknowing and uncertainty. It is natural to doubt, fear, even to question oneself and one's efforts at a root level. Often people shut down. They stop and back away from the pain and uncertainty. You may notice this in yourself. I often have and do. See if you can watch it if you can. Allow it to breathe and then let it move when it does. See if you can continue one best step and then another. This is what we need to do in the face of such massive social and earth changes. In this small project we are doing our little part and together demonstrate what an adaptive, healing and creative community can look like.
Some of you may be experiencing waves of inner complexity and some of you may be steady on. I want to assure that we are on task and target . You are all doing great adapting to this stressful and uncertain time. I stand with respect before you. Allow yourself to feel all the feels ( lyrics from NOW NOW in the Oracle:)),...and see if you can continue to make space for the complexities and doubts.
Know you are not alone and that perfectionism has no place here as we find our way. Perfectionism tightens and contracts. It is a form of violence.
What we have together, in this little creative learning community, is our willingness to share our hearts and gifts, our love and goodness, and be vulnerable in the world. We have no idea how it will be received or if it will matter. We do not know if it will be liked or disliked. In many ways this kind of concern is irrelevant for we are a work in progress. Please do not forget that. Even more, embrace it as deeply human.
We are learning now to be human in a whole new way. We have done the old way of constant assaults to a living breathing wholeness. We have come to the end of a way of being where few benefit on the backs of others and the planet. In our tender sweet way with SOS we are contributing to a larger force catalyzing and bringing into form a paradigm of care.
If you need me let me know. I am here. Just text me. I will respond and I will stay with you through this and beyond. Continue to find your own pace and flow with the unfolding mystery. Reach out for and accept support when needed. Practice self-awareness and deep self-tenderness. Notice what comes up for you, what happens in your body, where there are breakdowns, where there is surprising resource. I think you will find it is many things all at once and we can't know the impact of this- not really. We are artists and in that is the possibility of speaking the language of the soul. The language of the soul is mysterious. What we can do is stay very connected to our hearts, be courageous, and be real.
Let us all stay on task as we are making a steady and true pathway toward a truly harmonious way of living together and with the planet.
Thank you for your work, your presence and your creativity. You must know, you are each incredibly powerful and beautiful.
In Love and Service,
Molly