Why RESTORE with us?
Core values we aspire to express at RJP.
Community
CO-CONSPIRATOR. A container to support fluidity of co-inquiry. Construct. Deconstruct. Create.
Engage in horizontal modes of inquiry, welcome the unexpected, question the binary of question and answer, gather on the edge of desire to take a stand. Beyond an individual, an opportunity to act together.
Contemplation
Notice critical incapacities of politics, we need not look to news or social media to feel or to sense the atmosphere of a world coming apart and to feel ourself as part of that un-worlding. Hold near the spirit, no hard lines are drawn. Everything is possible. Maybe all the things we say should have a questions mark. Deepen our questions rather than resolve them. What questions are being asked through and of us, not just by us?
true beauty
Draw in your attention. Collect meaningful experiences. Dynamic, ecological sociality emerging. Your liberation touches mine, mine rubs up agains those that are held in oppression. Sensuous solidarity. Exquisite exploration of failure. The boundaries between our skin and ecologies are fluid, living in an earth that breathes. Counter hegemonic aspiration. Seeking Blackness as a quality of mystery, unknown/unknowable, the cracks where the creativity is conjured.
Wellness
New forms & modalities for being in the world, RELATIONALITY, Kinship. Partnership. Journey down to the river side. Dream of a time when we will study war no more. Reorient to comfort and failure. Offer questions to the mystery. Life waters & lifeways. Flowing, edges are fluid. Attend to spirits, disrupting, wondering bodies. Strange vocations, the forces that are inexplicably absent and spent simultaneously, Pay attention in these times of trouble to fluid forces guiding us to loose our way.
Creative Expression
Experiments, imagination provoked. Expand. Contract. The realm of the possible reminds us that the mountain exists for the river. Dance with mountains, flow in unexpected, exciting and strange ways, Gesture towards thresholds; fields of possibility. Think like water, like rivers in times of trouble.
Inspired by Bayo Akomolafe