Friday, June 10, 2022

DA Facilitators News 6/10/22

 New Zoom account, the Art of Listening training (US timezones), DA Facilitators fund, “Deep Live'' registration started!


Please vote for the time of our next general meeting in this Doodle poll. The time slots are appropriate for Asia, Australia and Pacific, but everyone is welcome! Please write if you have points, topics for discussions or processes you would like to propose for the next meeting or if you are ready to host or co-host! We'll gather a preliminary agenda soon! Notes of our last meetings are here.

New DAF community Zoom account is available for facilitators and volunteers for organizing any DAF event or to simply meet each other! This is our inner community calendar of the events and meetings scheduled for this new account: https://teamup.com/ks8wpq2b1m94be85re (it is almost free now). More details will be soon! For now, if you want to add something to this calendar and schedule a meeting, please contact Igor or Dorian.

The Art of Listening training for Facilitators for the US timezones will start on the 11th of July!
This five week course will explore the lost art of deep listening, and is intended to support facilitators to deepen their skills and build their confidence in hosting ‘Deep Listening’ gatherings.
The first sessions takes place between 5-7.30pm PST on the 11th July - check your start time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/c6e3e8f4  
Subsequent sessions take place at the same time on the 18th and 25th July, and the 1st and 8th August.
The training is offered on a “pay what you can basis”. The suggested exchange is £50; you can pay more than that, or nothing. No-one will be excluded on financial grounds.
FB event: http://www.facebook.com/events/427436788814483
Detailed course info: https://opencollective.com/deep-adaptation-forum/events/the-art-of-listening-training-for-us-based-facilitators-b5ff71e3#category-ABOUT 

During our last meeting we accepted a request from Maria Perkins and decided to provide financial support for the facilitation of the August youth event on Gotland (Sweden). Maria will facilitate the process with the group of young adults for 2,5 days around Deep Adaptation and Relational Being. Her travel expenses and food are covered by ReLearn NGO, but there is no fee for facilitation and Maria will spend more than 2 days on the road (without planes;). This event will be a test-drive experiment with new methods and new kinds of participants and if it is successful we can apply for future funded programs together with NGO ReLearn (Sweden). The proposal was to support Maria with 408 pounds raised during Relational Being training for facilitators offered by Maria a few months ago. Money will be transferred from DA Facilitators OpenCollective budget next week if there will be no objections. We will ask Maria to share lessons learned during facilitators meeting after the event. If you have a clarifying question, objection or concern, please write to Igor about it now.

• As was proposed by Lisa Gordon, we are going to discuss a policy for allocating funds in our donations box during the next General meeting. You can read the draft of the proposal here. If you will not be at the next General meeting you are welcome to share your thoughts in comments or by writing to Lisa, Terry and Igor, who prepared this draft.

Deep Live Gathering 2022 registration is started for hosts, facilitators and regular participants! 12-19 of October 2022 we will gather in different places around the globe in order to meet each other in physical, virtual and spiritual spaces. We will share our grief, fear, anger, love, joy, compassion and trust that we have in times of collapsing unsustainable civilization. We do not have false hopes, but we do have a community of each other.
Registration for local groups hosts and facilitators (consider to be one): https://www.formlets.com/forms/E5wUny1qkfvdW2dG/
Registration for regular participants:
If you want to help in organizing or facilitating Deep Live Gathering 2022 please write to the preparation team using this contact form.
You are welcome to share this invitation with others within and outside DAF (please keep in mind that Deep Live Gathering is a collapse-aware multilocal offline and online process). The website with some details and registration: https://futuref.org/deeplivegathering 

Deep Listening sessions need co-hosts! We have DL sessions hosts for June, but we need more co-hosts and alternates (back-up co-hosts) to support them. Consider joining: a co-host role does not demand a lot of experience! The schedule with some empty cells is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rAzDgiwAABRsRi-2aYFf11q2KsUFHepfWI67RVl0RHk/edit#gid=1682364009 (“DL Schedule”)


Thank you for being who you are and holding space for others!

Igor Polskiy, Facilitation Coordinator
Terry LePage, Facilitation Support

Friday, May 13, 2022

Monthly Facilitators Meeting, “Deep Live” preparation and other news

 Hello Deep Adaptation Facilitators!


The next DA Facilitators General Meeting will be combined with the DA Volunteer Community call, May 26, 5 to 7pm UTC.
Check your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/bbdeec36  
The first 30 min will be dedicated to reconnecting with one another, getting to know new people, and information-sharing. Core team members will be present to answer any questions about what is happening in DAF at large.
In the remaining 90 minutes we will have DA Facilitators meeting in a breakout room. If you have something to propose for the agenda in advance or you are ready to host or co-host a Facilitators meeting, please write in the Fb group or contact Igor. You can find brief results of the last meeting here.
This time you can use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82890971385
DA Volunteer Community calls are open to anyone actively engaged in the Deep Adaptation forum at large, or wishing to become more active. These calls will be mainly hosted by members of the DAF Core Team, although co-hosting by volunteers remains highly encouraged. Join us so we can catch up with each other, and better figure out how to do the things that matter to us in DAF!

Deep Live Gathering 2022 preparation meeting will happen on May 21, 2:30pm UTC. Look for your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/53d2fd06 
Here is the link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81683189932 
Will be glad to see you if you are interested in organizing or facilitating live events and meetings in your region during the Gathering! Please share this message with possible hosts of local groups if you know any;)

A New DA Facilitation website is in process.  
Please join us in gathering testimonials, pictures, videos and information about DA Facilitated offerings in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x7FBcqspZyhRJcJwz7QSC6rCxZ-FSP_x?usp=sharing
The website will be created in June, before that we need to gather all the materials, and after that it will be accessible both from the DAF website and the open web.
Contact Igor if you have any proposals or questions.

Deep Listening and Deep Relating need facilitators in June! 
If you are ready to host or co-host one (or more) of the sessions please put your name in the schedule (“DL Schedule” and “DR schedule” tabs)!

Igor Polskiy, Facilitation Coordinator
Terry LePage, Facilitation Support

Thursday, April 21, 2022

DA Facilitators News 4/21/22

General Meeting, a “Test Run” and other news


We’ll be glad to see you at the next DA Facilitators General Meeting, where we’ll connect with each other, share news and discuss topics we’ll bring with us! Time is appropriate for Asia, Australia, Oceania and Pacific, but everyone is welcome!

     We will meet on the 27 of April, 5:30-7.00am UTC (you can find your time here)

The link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4263056185 

     If you have something to propose for the agenda in advance or ready to host or co-host the meeting, please write in Fb or contact Igor. You can find brief results of the last meeting here. The brief results of this meeting will be there as well.


Test Run (Community of Practice) for “Planetary Poetics” facilitated by Dawn Mazzone, Thursday April 28, 8-9 pm UTC
(Your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/0b84a1cd.)  

Please join us to sample this offering that Dawn wants to bring to DA.  Planetary Poetics: A meditation for the Earth, the Sky, the Water and all Beings. Poetics refers to ancient wisdom, and the spiral of inter-being between ourselves and the planet. The process gives guidance on hand position for six elements, a visual image all related to a circle, and a sound. Each of the six is uncomplicated and flows easily. You can think of it as an “open-eye” meditation. It starts with activating our energy connection to each other and then the Earth and the Cosmos.  We use the word “infinite source” to be neutral as this is not religious based; it is earth and cosmic based.     

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84350767940?pwd=cnY4allULzVqbUNDL3RoTnRqMGFCQT09.  Meeting ID: 843 5076 7940, Passcode: 615848


DAF Welcoming Circles needs facilitation!
Welcoming Circles, currently first Mondays, 6:30-8pm UTC,  are a good tradition to meet with new members of the Deep Adaptation Forum community. There is a need for more hosts for this simple and important event. It doesn’t need a lot of time or experience, so if you are ready to help with facilitation, please contact Kat Soares: kahardcastle@gmail.com .


If you are willing to experience Deep Listening and support new DL facilitators by your presence please register to one of coming DL sessions here: https://www.formlets.com/forms/O1NklguUBUyEh6Kh/
If you are willing to host or co-host one (or more) of the sessions please put your name in the schedule (“DL Schedule” tab)

Deep Adaptation Forum searches for a new fundraising coordinator
“With the departure of Tom earlier this year we are now looking to welcome a new member of the core team to lead and coordinate fundraising activities for DAF”. Details about this vacancy are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1hGCfmTzTFS3ZoNPCQERlgbsWz_eDfq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110657311754954199482&rtpof=true&sd=true
Please share the link above with the people who might be interested. Deadline for applications is April 30th 2022. Contact email for questions and ‘expressions of interest’: kat@deepadaptation.info  


P.S.
As fundraising is one of the important things for maintaining DAF community, please do not forget to share the link for donations in the end of after every event you facilitate within the forum:
“This event is hosted by “DA Facilitators” (www.deepadaptation.info/contact/facilitation), who lovingly volunteer their time and expertise for events as their way of honouring DAF’s mission, embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament. This event is offered in the spirit of the gift economy. If you appreciate this offering and are able to support the Deep Adaptation Forum, please do so here: https://opencollective.com/deep-adaptation-forum/projects/spirit-of-generosity


Igor Polskiy, Facilitation Coordinator  - igor@deepadaptation.info

Terry LePage, Facilitation Support


Wednesday, April 13, 2022

DA Facilitators News April 13, 2022

Please vote for the time of our next general meeting. The time slots are appropriate for Asia, Australia and Pacific, but everyone is welcome! Please write also if you have points, topics for discussions or processes you would like to propose for the next meeting or if you are ready to host or co-host! We'll gather a preliminary agenda soon! There will be breakout rooms for DR and DL facilitators at the end of our meeting. Notes of our last meetings are here.

News about Deep Relating facilitation. Maria Perkins, one of our key DR facilitators, will be stepping back from DR and DA in order to take a pause and to be with people in non-virtual spaces. We wish her a good pause and are looking for co-hosts for April 28 and May 12. The schedule is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rAzDgiwAABRsRi-2aYFf11q2KsUFHepfWI67RVl0RHk/edit#gid=1682364009 (“DR Schedule”)
We’ll make a new schedule for the following months with different time zones soon. You are very welcome to take part in this process, to step in and write to us about your time possibilities for hosting or co-hosting future sessions. Please contact jayridgewell@gmail.com, Igor@deepadaptation.info or terry@deepadaptation.info 

Deep Listening sessions need co-hosts! After the “Art of listening” course with Katie Carr we are planning to offer Deep Listening to the DAF community. Some facilitators are ready to host it and we need more co-hosts and alternates (back-up co-hosts) to support them. The schedule with some empty cells is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rAzDgiwAABRsRi-2aYFf11q2KsUFHepfWI67RVl0RHk/edit#gid=1682364009 (“DL Schedule”)
You might put your names in the table or contact katiecarr@hotmail.com if you have any questions!

• The first Deep Live Gathering 2022 preparation meeting will happen on the 14th of April, 1pm UTC. Look for your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/3bbf85cb 
Here is the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84431556550
Sorry for the very short notice.
Will be glad to see you if you are interested in organizing or facilitating live events and meetings in your region during the Gathering! Let Igor know if you want to join future planning sessions.

• Please consider joining the following DAF community events to strengthen our relationships and provide/experience mutual support in our various challenges around collapse.  You add value as a facilitator participant.

Thurs. April 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm UTC 
Are you involved in a Deep Adaptation group, circle, or initiative? Or are you keen to get involved? Please join us. Connection and reconnection, information sharing, and breakouts on topics chosen by participants. Find out more »
DA Welcoming Circle
Mon. May 2 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm UTC+0 
New members and other interested parties! Please join us for a Deep Adaptation Welcoming Circle. We'll have introductions and meet each other in small groups, and hear from some longer term DA members about their journey. We will also have space for your questions, ideas and any concerns about Deep Adaptation - the process, and our forums. You're welcome to attend, even if you aren't that new to Deep Adapation, and have been to a circle before. Find out more »
Fri. May 6 @ 1:30 am - 3:30 am UTC (Thursday for Americas!)
First Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm PST/First Fridays 11:30am AEDT. The first hour of the gathering will be dedicated to connecting/reconnecting with one another around our journeys of Deep Adaptation . The second hour will be for participants to share if they have any issues/dilemmas/challenges, or just listen and provide feedback. Find out more »

Igor Polskiy, DAF Facilitation Coordinator
Terry LePage, Facilitation Support

DA Facilitators News 6/10/22