Reclaiming what's missing to restore harmony to us and our world.
Shemewé is the space we each inhabit; the feminine (She), masculine (He), that free part of us that’s beyond classification (Me), and the part of us that is in relationship (We) with everything and everyone around us.
Shemewé advocates for a more holistic, integrated way of living and being. Shemewé brings us closer to our true essence as human spirit beings and enables us to create healthier and safer communities.
The Shemewé vision celebrates diversity by enabling the authenticity in people to be free. The Shemewé mission is a global movement for healthy relationships and the human spirit journey.
Shemewé advocates for a more holistic, integrated way of living and being. Shemewé brings us closer to our true essence as human spirit beings and enables us to create healthier and safer communities.
The Shemewé vision celebrates diversity by enabling the authenticity in people to be free. The Shemewé mission is a global movement for healthy relationships and the human spirit journey.
The she and he in Shemewé do not represent gender but rather aspects and expressions within each human being. Gender is a social construct, influenced by culture, life experience, significant relationships and social systems at the collective, familial and personal levels.
“Each person’s sense of gender is an individual creation, and there are thus many masculinities and femininities.
The Power of Feelings (1999)
Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture
Nancy J. Chodorow
Being human includes ways of perceiving and forms of expression that represent contrasting parts of us. Within Shemewé these aspects are identified as She (feminine), and He (masculine). These two parts could just as easily be named as purple and orange, yin and yang, gestalt and logic. They represent two parts that exist within us that provide different ways of perceiving, receiving, experiencing, processing and expressing information and experiences.
Throughout history dominant culture has feminised and masculinised various human expressions, and assigned traits to gender, rather than seeing them as a part of our shared humanity. Dominant culture serves, values and rewards those expressions that are masculinised. Much of what is identified as and has been feminised remains undervalued, misunderstood, and at times even despised and forbidden.
The difference between what is feminised or masculinised is only significant when one aspect is denied, having a harmful effect on us as people and communities. Within Shemewé it's accepted that one part without the other causes imbalance. The differences between the She and He are valued equally for what they each contribute to an integrated whole, creating the impetus for higher level qualities and skills to emerge and take shape.
Within Shemewé each person including those who identify as non binary, has the right to embrace all parts of themselves, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or any other forms of identification. Shemewé celebrates multiplicity, advocates for inclusivity and integration rather than prizing some parts over and to the exclusion of others.
“Each person’s sense of gender is an individual creation, and there are thus many masculinities and femininities.
The Power of Feelings (1999)
Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture
Nancy J. Chodorow
Being human includes ways of perceiving and forms of expression that represent contrasting parts of us. Within Shemewé these aspects are identified as She (feminine), and He (masculine). These two parts could just as easily be named as purple and orange, yin and yang, gestalt and logic. They represent two parts that exist within us that provide different ways of perceiving, receiving, experiencing, processing and expressing information and experiences.
Throughout history dominant culture has feminised and masculinised various human expressions, and assigned traits to gender, rather than seeing them as a part of our shared humanity. Dominant culture serves, values and rewards those expressions that are masculinised. Much of what is identified as and has been feminised remains undervalued, misunderstood, and at times even despised and forbidden.
The difference between what is feminised or masculinised is only significant when one aspect is denied, having a harmful effect on us as people and communities. Within Shemewé it's accepted that one part without the other causes imbalance. The differences between the She and He are valued equally for what they each contribute to an integrated whole, creating the impetus for higher level qualities and skills to emerge and take shape.
Within Shemewé each person including those who identify as non binary, has the right to embrace all parts of themselves, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or any other forms of identification. Shemewé celebrates multiplicity, advocates for inclusivity and integration rather than prizing some parts over and to the exclusion of others.
