YENMA WELCOME

The Welcome: S & R

It is with great pride, honour and gratitude, that I introduce the third volume of Yenma Yenmalalibyila. I thank all of those who have contributed. Those who have contributed their energies, their time, their monies, to serving and manifesting this Volume. Shadows & Reflections is the theme -- the undercurrent writing; the poetry, stories, artwork and insights contained within. We embarked upon this volume with a very different approach to the previous.

I would love to give a particular thankyou to Magda for hosting the first in-person

YEmpower Community Creative Expression session, as well as thank Lucy and Ness for their leadership. This session was the platform for the spark of much of the pieces ahead of you. The Creative Expression workshop and session models are very accessible ways to meet in-person to create and envision new things, together! During that first Creative

Session (of many planned -- so get involved!), we asked ourselves the question, " what do Shadows and Reflections mean to us?"

I' ve laid out a few of our sentiments in picture form ahead, but there are many senses to Shadows and Reflections. These include the inner voices that we carry with us, where we interrogate and inflect in different moments. In other senses, it can be the feelings of engulfment or mirroring by others and society.

It is my hope that you reader are inspired by the pieces herein. And that you may be inspired to come on the Yenma Creative journey with us, into the New Year.

Let Us Walk together, out of the shades of history and from our reflection pools, and put out our perspectives. I invite you to deeply listen.

- Matt Jeffrey.

"Don't Let Anyone ever tell you that Shadow-Work only relates to the 'darkness' . What we need to realise is, is that our Shadow is born with us, it follows us, and it will go with us. All our Shadows are all the same colour -- no matter where you're from or who you are. When you project your Shadow onto Mother Nature, she reminds you of how beautiful you are. Don't forget it!" - Bernard Kelly-Edwards, 2022

(YEmpower Creative Expression Workshop, July 2022)

(YEmpower Creative Expression Workshop, July 2022)

Tallulah Watson Moyle (YEmpower Creative Expression Workshop, July 2022)

we need not fear what lies beneath but rather welcome with the same arms and big love that turned them away in the first place.

the people around us the environment around us, entire worlds staring back at us.