Facilitators News 7/28
We’re hoping you can attend…
DA Facilitators General Meeting, Monday, Aug. 2, 2-4pm UTC (your start time here.) All DA facilitators are invited. We will form the agenda at the beginning of the meeting together. If you have a topic or a process you want to propose in advance, please write to igor@deepadaptation.info or in the Facebook event page: https://fb.me/e/13qqQ9ujB
Other events for facilitators:
“PLAYLIST FOR DEEP ADAPTATION”- a Facilitators Community of Practice
This is a “facilitators community of practice” session where we will support Danny Joseph in creating a new offering for the DAF space while we experience something new, and other DA participants are welcome. Please join us! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87480707272?pwd=d3dnK01sek96QVlUZE9qeGxCdVZSdz09, Meeting ID: 874 8070 7272; Passcode: 1234
- If possible, email musical selections in advance to Danny at danieljw.shington@gmail.com. They can be in any format: a link to any streaming service or a file like MP3 or WAV. Email with subject: DA Playlist. Ideally the song length is 3-6 minutes.
- Sharing music builds community by expressing our inner worlds. You are invited to share musical pieces that speak to you about your experience of Deep Adaptation. (You can also simply listen to others’ offerings.) Your music can evoke the experience of loss, support you in finding comfort or strength, or it can represent where you are in relation to DA. We will communally listen together to the music that speaks to each of us. Each person who shares a piece will be invited to speak about what it means to them if they wish.
- While listening, you may dance, lay on the floor, sit with your eyes closed, sing along, journal, whatever feels right for the moment.
- Danny lives in Philadelphia. He is a musician and music therapist in training.
Register here in advance to receive the handouts (but don't hesitate to re-register at the last minute if you misplace the link): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoduqrqz0rGNYmgWLZZ7xca3DP-WaGmepE?fbclid=IwAR1rTpDesTQRaMYZlNUBjP6PzrtL4ajW8PYGoxyuFIBYM8VNUD3MhFYaxtQ
Check your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/36ae6b29
See also:
The “more here” links go to the DAF *alpha test* web events calendar. This is not yet complete or public; let Terry know if you have problems using it.
The Four Rs event project with David Baum
*Facilitators are invited to the team!
*Facilitators are invited to the team!
We are developing a new kind of event. The purpose is the same as usual: to provide a safe container for addressing difficult emotions about collapse. But now we want to use “The Four Rs” framework, specifically, as the basis for the conversation. (See Jem Bendell’s explanation of “The Four Rs,” here: https://jembendell.com/2019/03/17/the-love-in-deep-adaptation-a-philosophy-for-the-forum/)
We’re calling this “The 4Rs Project,” and you’re welcome to contribute! David Baum is organizing, Terry LePage is leading development, and Igor is coordinating the whole process. We have the opportunity to develop a method that can serve the existing DA community and also spread our values and ideas to the wider world.
If you want to be involved, please email David at david.baum.seattle@gmail.com to be included in future communications.
If you want to be involved, please email David at david.baum.seattle@gmail.com to be included in future communications.
A Message from Dorian
**Event hosts please read this at the end of your events.
"Members of the Deep Adaptation Forum are studying the Conscious Learning that happens in our spaces. So we invite you to tell us about yours. In gatherings like this one in the Forum, what did you discover, or re-discover? Did DAF gatherings help you 'connect the dots' with something else you were aware of already? Do you feel some new insight or awareness emerging in you as a result? Please share it with us, even if it's just a small detail. You can do so on the new Conscious Learning blog: learning.deepadaptation.info. Please use the contact form there to share your insight with Wendy and Dorian, who will help you get it online. You can also register your own account and do so yourself if you prefer. Thank you so much."
More Info from Dorian on Conscious Learning:
A SUMMER OF CONSCIOUS LEARNING IN THE DEEP ADAPTATION FORUM
A 5-minute video invitation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCa9A7-ScNU
And a letter:
Dear Deep Adaptation event creators and facilitators,
Online gatherings are one of the core areas of activity in Deep Adaptation Forum spaces. Be it Deep Relating, Deep Listening, Death Cafes, Earth Listening or other events, I have heard from many participants that this is where the deepest connections tend to happen in our ecosystem. These are spaces in which new relationships are born; and, I believe, where some of the deepest and most transformative learning occurs.
You may know that Wendy Freeman and I are currently researching how all of us are learning and changing as we engage and interact in Deep Adaptation spaces online. You can read more about this research here: https://www.deepadaptation.info/blog/researching-daf
This summer, from July to the end of September, we are inviting the whole network to a "Conscious Learning Festival." The idea is for all of us who are active in the Deep Adaptation Forum to reflect more actively on what it is we are learning, as we have conversations and join events on DA, and how we may be changing as a result.
To make this learning more visible, we have launched a new blog, open to everyone: the Conscious Learning blog: https://learning.deepadaptation.info/.
This summer, we would like to partner up with you around this idea. This is our request: At the end of each DA event that you facilitate, could you please invite all participants to take a few minutes and share any new insights or takeaways they would like to see published on the Conscious Learning blog? People can do so either by creating their own account on the blog, or just using the contact form there. I am attaching a standard message you can read out to people after each event.
Not only would this be useful to our research, but also for the whole network to become more aware of what is happening, and how people are deeply adapting by connecting with each other. It would also be useful for you to read feedback on the events you host!
I hope you will help us on this new initiative.
Many thanks in advance.
Dorian Cavé
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See you Monday!
Igor Polskiy, Facilitation Coordination
Terry LePage, Facilitation Support
