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Ash Chudgar

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Happy 2024! ✨🪩✨ Welcome to a Year of Living Plurally

In 2024, Ash's newsletter is an experiment: a “Year of Living Plurally.” Every week or so, I’m going to share some reflections about how multiplicity, diversity, and community show up in our daily lives and the culture around us.

Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out

Using Internal Family Systems in nonprofit work — or, DEI from the inside out

The Internal Family Systems model can bring deeper understanding, more compassionate communication, and greater harmony to bigger human systems — like nonprofits and the communities they serve. This workshop uses IFS to explore diversity, equity, and inclusion “from the inside out.”

How one school district meets harm with repair

How one school district meets harm with repair

As our national life becomes more polarized, educators need new ways to respond to acts of hatred in their school communities. Leaders at Osseo Area Schools created a clear, just, and replicable process for responding to such incidents with healing and repair. Here’s how.

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Fall 2023 Inner Community Writing Workshops

The first-ever Inner Community Writing Workshops are meeting in November and December of 2023. Here’s what participants need to know.

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An 8-week Intro to IFS Self-Therapy in Minneapolis, starting this month

Spread the word, Minneapolis: on Wednesday evenings this fall, experienced therapist and teacher Roberta Cullen is teaching an 8-week in-person Intro to IFS Self-Therapy. It’s open to anyone 18 or older, and offered very affordably through Minneapolis Community Education.

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How I got consent to write about consent

Back in January, I got the opportunity to write an article about consent, and a hardworking writer part of me eagerly agreed — without consulting the rest of my inner family. Here’s a brief transcript from the internal debate that ensued, plus a link to the published article.

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Four questions from the Inclusive Therapists community

Inclusive Therapists is a liberation movement in the form of an online coaching and therapy directory. To join, I had to answer four very deep questions about liberation, justice, and embodiment in my coaching practice. Here are my answers.