The Spiral Goddess Collective Radical Careworkers

Once a month we gather together radical careworkers at The Spiral Goddess Collective to network, socialize, and talk about what we do and how we can support each other. We also share our gifts and offerings with each other through the opportunity for an embodied practice and/or activity. We welcome anyone in our community who identifies with this category of carework--radical careworker. This blog is a short overview of the origins of this group and how we define ourselves and our work.

When I first started thinking about The Spiral Goddess Collective, I brainstormed it as a Mutual Care/Scholarship Program that I would create to provide scholarships for people who could not afford to take yoga and conscious dance classes in the Bangor area. I also intended to eventually provide training for dance fitness instructors. I was basically going to use my own money and maybe think about getting others to donate and maybe think about starting a non-profit.

And then, long story short, The Spiral Goddess Collective was born and the Radical Careworkers Collective Practice and networking event was born with the help of Sen Wilde and Kate Mikkelsen.

This event and networking group is inspired by my work in the emerging field of Embodied Social Justice: Literal and figurative movement (mind/body, cultural/social) toward justice, healing, and transformation of individuals and communities, systems and structures, and the earth and all its beings. It is radical in the way that Angela Davis explains, “grasping things by the root.” Radical encourages growth. Radicals are pathbreakers and deviate from the status quo. Radical work does not just treat the superficial symptoms, it makes big changes to entrenched structures. (I love this article about what radical is from Teen Vogue)

The Spiral Goddess Collective Radical Careworkers networking and support group was an attempt to bring us together because we complement each other, and as a network, as a collective of radical careworkers, we can support each other as well as the people we care for.  We have power, purpose, magic, and superpowers. We have much to give and we also need to receive!
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We are powerful. What we do matters. And what we build together can transform individuals and our community and so much more….