If one human meets another human living in [survival mode]
the [survival mode] human will not expect any love from anyone. It is too painful to expect love.
If one human shows love in a way that the [survival mode] human can recognize the love, then the future is abundant in healing opportunities for the [survival mode] human.
Years worth of healing provided because of moments of love.
That is where the emotional foundation I stand on today started. I was so broken that I did not expect anything loving from any other person on the planet. I treated myself in a horrible way because I did not value my life. I did not think any one could or should. But there were people who stopped their lives to help me exist in mine, even if only for a moment, they stopped to see and hear me. Those are the moments that matter now that I am not broken anymore. So I want to facilitate those moments in other peoples lives.
"Kollekt" is a word of the vernacular from which my efforts and I currently reside. It has a different meaning from it's english counterpart spelled with c's, but both meanings have relevance to the creation of this positive social effort that I call Kollekt Project.
The point of Kollekt Project is to offer people a place to collect. People in the same place tend to find a connection, human to human. We focus on asylum seekers because in our community, these are people who need human to human connection the most.
I believe I can create an environment where moments of connection between strangers are more likely to be made. This is Kollekt House. It is my family's house. But, you can also think of it as a laboratory or maybe an art studio. The experiment in the lab, the artwork being created; it is the event bringing all the guests together. I am working on the design for an event that can facilitate moments of connection by people who have nothing on the surface in common. People who are strangers. I call it a Kollekt Party. It has to be a party! Because that is how celebrations are marked in the culture I come from and also in the culture I currently find myself living in. Plus, people generally like the idea of attending a party, it translates cultures.
A Kollekt Party is a celebration that treats the human race as an entire family. Humans typically give their own relations a lot of chances to get past each others surface level differences. So people who are connected because they are related find those things that make them similar instead of different. And then they bond. Throw a party to celebrate human unity and human connection by bringing together a group of people who would not ever find another way to connect. That is, at its essence, a Kollekt Party
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