On Tuesday afternoons: 3.30-5.30pm, beginning 26th October, for 6 weeks.
Hosted by Cathy, contact by email: [email protected] / or phone: 0411-383-563
You are invited to be part of an ongoing community conversation and learning space: to connect, share and dream how we can collaboratively grow localised expressions of regenerative communities. These gatherings will be a supportive space from which to creatively re-envisage how we might co-create a healthier, happier and more compassionate world for all; to dream up possibilities to support the growth of resilient, healthy and abundant localised expressions of place.
Loosely following the explorations and framework of Gaia University’s ‘Design for Sustainability and Regeneration’ Course’, we will consider both the theoretical and the practical dimensions applicable to re-imagining and designing the human presence on earth as ‘regenerative’ rather than ‘degenerative’.
In time, the Conversation Circles will explore the following four dimensions of creating a sustainable and regenerative human civilization:
- Social Design
- Ecological
- Worldview
- Economic Design
The first Circle series will be a six week conversation on the theme of ‘Social Design’. In this series, we will explore how we can consciously create cooperative and harmonious ways of living and working together.
Topics for discussion include:
- building community and embracing diversity
- communication skills and decision making
- leadership and empowerment
- Art, Ritual and Social Transformation
- Education, Social Networks and Activism
The general format of the conversation circles will be:
- Welcome followed by centring silence (10min)
- Open discussion: reflection and exploration of weekly topics. This may include reading, screening, sharing of pre-reading sections and other written work; (approx 1hr)
- Brainstorm local actions and possibilities for growing expressions of regenerative community; sharing of actions and regenerative community work (approx 30mins)
- Closing connection/comments and centering silence (15 mins)
We will finish by 5.30pm. For those who wish to stay after for a catch up, please bring along something to share for a potluck dinner.
This a family friendly event and children are most certainly welcome. To register your interest, please contact Catherine at: [email protected]. To anticipate numbers for each circle, please RSVP by the Monday prior. Last minute attendees also welcome!
Please get in touch if you’d like to be kept updated about these conversation circles and to receive access to reading materials, etc., even if you can’t make the gathering. Also, if you’d like to be part of the conversation circle but can’t make this time on Tuesday, please let me know of other days/times that would suit. Other times might be possible in the future.
So please, come and join in the conversation!
