Framing individualism and collectivism as opposing paradigms is one of the many ways we continue to reinforce and reproduce the divisions between us.
Both orientations carry distortions when taken to extremes, and neither is inherently better or more right than the other. When we turn them into a binary, we lose access to the wisdom of each.
In this episode, I draw from my lived experience growing up between cultures, my work across global contexts, and a recent somatic parts-work process with a client to explore how the longing for both belonging and individuation lives inside all of us. I unpack why a regenerative future doesn’t come from choosing one over the other, but from bringing the two into relationship with one another.
Through the paradigm of interdependence, we’re invited into a more integrated, human-centered, and liberatory way of being with ourselves and with each other.
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