By Kaylee Domzalski, Oregon Public Broadcasting, September 14, 2019
Josh Cocker stood among a group of Grand Ronde tribal members and asked for someone to take a healthy risk. Cocker and his co-facilitator, Shalene Joseph, had spent the last two days in a community gymnasium in Grand Ronde, Oregon, leading group exercises meant to start the healing process and deepen the community’s understanding of belonging, interdependency and generosity.
On the third day, they introduced the rope exercise.
Kimberly Contreras stepped forward. The goal was to climb up onto a pair of climbing ropes, suspended only by the community’s strength and walk around the circle. It seemed like an impossible task, but it wasn’t — and that was the point.
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