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June 2025 - Trauma Mission to Israel
Trauma Mission to Israel I visited Israel for the first time in June 2025, and was invited to write a blog about my experiences at The Times of Israel. Here is…
Greenlighting and Grace
In this video, Steve explores Greenlighting as a Tantric practice that evokes Grace in mysterious and surprising ways.
Advanced Mutuality Skills 2025
“Mutuality is the poem of one plus one is three” The Advanced Mutuality Skills (AMS) workshop has traditionally been the third of the advanced courses offered by Trillium Awakening for…
Related practices that Cielle uses
Thanks for finding me. I am Cielle Backstrom, and I am deeply dedicated to supporting individuals on their journey toward awakening to their true and total nature. My path spans…
Cielle's involvement with Trillium Awakening
Cielle here: Thanks for your interest in my involvement in Trillium Awakening. Below, you will also read about the administrative roles I have held or still hold. Even during my…
Surprising Grace
Sharon and I spend our winters in a small Mexican town along the Pacific ocean. The town is an amalgam of contrasts. Snow birds from Canada, America and Europe live…
Who Knows?
It seems to be getting harder to count on established sources of truth, justice, and knowledge necessary to deliver the clarity, confidence, and safety needed to navigate life. Parental wisdom…
Where Are We Now with Mutuality?
Edited Transcription of a presentation by Fax Gilbert followed by a Discussion of Trillium Teachers at our Teacher Retreat, June 14, 2017 Fax: In light of the events leading up to and…
Character and Consciousness
Several middle school principals independently came to me in 2000 to see if I could use my performance skills to put together a program on character development to enhance their…
The Simplest Gift We Have to Give
One of the countries most insightful social commentators once remarked that as a society we’ve all gotten away from the true meaning of Christmas — “the birth of Santa”. Homer…
Challenge and Opportunity
I tremble like a flower in a storm.The strong winds push methis way and that-but around my rootsthe solid ground sustains meAnd tomorrow, when the new sun rises,my petals will…
What's in a Name?
Eight years ago Trillium Awakening was chosen as the new name for our organization, formerly known as Waking Down in Mutuality. After an intensive search, the name Trillium Awakening was…
The Mathematics of Spiritual Awakening
My father went to M.I.T. and my uncle Frank taught math for over 50 years at the Boston Latin, a premier preparatory school. Unfortunately, I didn’t inherit their math genes…
Artistic Expressions: Interview with Fax Gilbert
HOW DID YOU GET STARTED IN MIME? As a senior at Brandeis University I took a course on ‘Mime and Body Movement’. I ended up performing the lead in an…
Restorative Interdependence
June 1, 2024 “I call this approach Non-violent Communication, using the term nonviolence as Gandhi used it — to refer to our natural state of compassion when violence has subsided from the…