What’s brewing with DA facilitators?
DA Facilitators News 5/12/21
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1. We are pondering Kim Hare’s new report: Learning and (Un)Learning for DAF - lots of opportunities for facilitators!
Check it out here: https://tinyurl.com/learn-daf. Please come talk with us about it at the:
2. Facilitators May Gathering: Tues. May 18, for every time zone.
First hour: Connect, discuss the report above and other news.
Second hour: community of practice. Come to one hour or both.
(The two time slots will have different practices too, so you could even come to both sessions... ; )
May 18, 7-9am UTC (your time zone here) - Practice: TBA
Zoom details: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83437004253?pwd=UXpjRmRpYitrL3RJVmRaeHNUaHpZZz09
May 18, 17:30-19:30 UTC (your time zone here) - Practice: Ojai Foundation's Way of Council (for beginners and advanced) with master teachers Leon Berg and Lori Austein
Get the Zoom link by registering here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceCsqzIrE9WfJmXB4pMmwhhRpv2j8oZO.
3. We are grateful to Nando for setting up a regular weekly Deep Relating schedule for DAF, with co-facilitators Maria Perkins and Chloé Greenwood (and alternates). Time slots for all time zones! (Alternating Wed. 3-5 pm UTC and Thurs. 9-11am UTC. You can sign up here. See the big DA FB group or this link for particulars. We still plan to offer occasional (monthly we hope) Deep Relating sessions especially for facilitators where you can be trained and/or provide feedback to the facilitators after the session.
4. We are delighted to have special events for facilitators, and some new and interesting events for all of DAF:
Healing with Pleasurable Movement (pilot offering for facilitators of “Embody Wholeness”)
Tomorrow! May 13, 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT/ 5pm UTC/ 6pm BST
Cultivate pleasure in movement, sensory awareness and connection to Self. Restorative and Rejuvenating. We will experiment with un-doing tension and tight places in our tissues and softening into our capacity for ease and enjoyment. Constance will guide explorations for coming out of Doing mode into Being mode.
RSVP to constance@constanceclare.com and you will be sent a Zoom link.
Embody Wholeness has several components. Foremost is a pedagogy of pleasure. The cultural norm of working hard at improvement is relinquished for a slow-pace of enjoyment and feelings of pleasure that facilitate healing, creativity and unity of self. Nature-based play makes way for co-evolving with the natural world and deepening our relationship with self and environment. Breath awareness and exploration restores and rejuvenates. Sustainability for self, community and environment is prioritized for dynamic balance of human and non-human life.
Especially in this era of disconnection, and the fractured cultures we live in, connecting and learning from the desert, the dunes, the meadow, the mountain, and the water bring us closer to wholeness.
Bridging dance, mindful movement, functional anatomy, play, sensory awareness, spiritual practice and eco-connection, participants access ease internally and externally, engage creatively and come home to a sense of wholeness.
And of course if you’d like to connect and reflect with other facilitators and active DAF volunteers (because we really enjoy each other’s company and wisdom…) come to: “The Mutual Care in DAF”, see here for full description.
Early edition: Thurs. May 20, 1-3pm UTC, (your time zone here).
Late edition: Fri. June 4, 1-3am UTC (Thurs. June 3, 6pm PDT, 9am Bali, Singapore, AWST), (your time zone here).
Zoom link for both: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87263928032?pwd=NnAzN3JjVTR0MnVoQ3plSFVuN3Q1Zz09
Thursday June 3, Compassionate Communication (NVC) for Facilitators and Volunteers, 17:30-19:00 UTC.
Check your time zone here. Register here. More details here.
Small, interactive practice group for using NVC tools for facilitation and life. No prerequisite, but please sign up in time to download a couple of handouts. Monthly drop-in, no prerequisite.
Finally, here’s something different!
Play Minions of Disruptions, a climate board game online, Friday May 28, 1-3pm UTC. Your time zone here.
The Core Team played it and had great fun. A tool for gently engaging communities and organizations in climate adaptation discussions. Details at the link below (and in FB DA).
https://deepadaptation.ning.com/events/play-minions-of-disruption-a-climate-board-game-online
In solidarity with you on your journey of deep adaptation,
Terry LePage
Interim Facilitation Coordinator
