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INVITING SOFTENING AS A HEALING-CENTERED PRACTICE
Today is my 49th birthday, and I began the celebration by sending 49 messages to 49 friends, colleagues, and family members.
Jan 11 • Lana Jelenjev
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BENEATH THE ICEBERG: A Healing-Centered Model of What Shapes Our Behaviors
May 2, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
SETTLED BODIES, SETTLE BODIES
Feb 25, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev
WHAT IF INSTEAD OF FLIGHT, FREEZE, FAWN, FIGHT OR FLOP, WE "FLOCK"?
Nov 28, 2023 • Lana Jelenjev
LEARNING HOW TO "FALLOW" INSTEAD OF "FREEZE"
Aug 12, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev

Coming Home To Yourself

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INVITING SOFTENING AS A HEALING-CENTERED PRACTICE
Today is my 49th birthday, and I began the celebration by sending 49 messages to 49 friends, colleagues, and family members.
Jan 11 • Lana Jelenjev
OUR BODIES REMEMBER: Flocking as Cellular Wisdom
In REKINDLING CELLULAR CONNECTIONS: Finding refuge in our cell bodies, I started the exploration of how our bodies are the site of belonging and…
Jan 7 • Lana Jelenjev
REKINDLING CELLULAR CONNECTIONS: Finding refuge in our cell bodies
For those who know me or have been following my writing, you would know that I have experienced breast cancer twice.
Jan 1 • Lana Jelenjev
RESOURCING IN THE MIDST OF COLLAPSE: How We Stay Rooted When the World Feels Too Much
The year was 1996.
Aug 5, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

Tending the Threads that Bind Us

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FLOCKING AS PATTERN REPAIR: Remembering What Trauma Made Us Forget
Exile, Rupture, and the Long Forgetting of Flocking
Jan 8 • Lana Jelenjev
NAVIGATING TENSION THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF “PAKIKIRAMDAM”
The Dishes Were Just the Surface
Jul 24, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
TEND AND BEFRIEND: OUR INNATE FLOCKING ABILITY
The past few weeks I have been surrounded by family and friends.
Dec 31, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev
SETTLED BODIES CAN HEAL BODIES
This morning, I went out of the hospital’s blood laboratory crying.
Dec 27, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev

Healing Ancestral and Cultural Histories

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AN INVITATION TO HEALING-CENTERED LEADERSHIP
Weaving neurophysiology, relationality, ancestry, and healing into the heart of leadership.
Nov 23, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
THE FIRST RUPTURES OF BELONGING: On Power, Rank, and the Rise of a Hegemonic Worldview
I have been contemplating this image, which a friend and futurist, Sahana Chattopadhyay, shared on LinkedIn.
Jul 25, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
WEAVING IN OUR WHOLENESS: Honouring our Cultural Strengths
I have been reading about T’nalak, a sacred cloth woven by the T'boli people of Lake Sebu, Mindanao, in the southern Philippines.
Jun 4, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
THE MYTH OF INDIVIDUALISM
Our lives are not ours alone.
May 30, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

Healing for Wholeness

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BEFORE THE FIRST EXILE: Power, Energy, and Borders Within our Internal Systems
A prequel to “The First Ruptures of Belonging”
Nov 30, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
REIMAGINING HEALING: What would a healed ecosystem look like, sound like, feel like?
WHAT OUR SYSTEMS ARE ENTRENCHED IN
Sep 22, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
FROM COLONIAL PATTERNS TO REGENERATIVE PRACTICES: An Ongoing Journey of Decolonisation
I was surprised with how people started sharing and connecting with me around the work "From Colonial Patterns to Regenerative Practices" that I shared…
Aug 28, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev
BENEATH THE ICEBERG: A Healing-Centered Model of What Shapes Our Behaviors
WHAT IF…
May 2, 2025 • Lana Jelenjev

Words from the Field

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IT IS TIME, NO MORE WAITING
How do you know when it’s time
Dec 2, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev
THE WORLD WE PERCEIVE EMERGES FROM OUR COLLECTIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM
The past few days I have felt deeply activated.
Aug 29, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev
MAKE MEMORIES WHEN YOU CAN
Take the time to stop
May 8, 2024 • Lana Jelenjev
PRAYER FOR EMERGENCE
Today I invite the Divine Spirit
Dec 12, 2023 • Lana Jelenjev
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