Friday April 19th, 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET US
Saturday April 20th 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM ET US
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WHAT PRACTICES, RELATIONSHIPS, AND ACTIONS DO WE NEED IN ORDER TO FACE:
- Climate chaos and potential human extinction
- Worldwide authoritarian rule
- The decimation of nature and culture
- Increasing violence and societal breakdown
Most of us grew up in the aftermath of World War II and lived through the Cold War. Many young people--Millennials and Generation Z, do not understand the horrors of authoritarianism that we witnessed. How do we support them and also learn from them?
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INTENTIONS
• Create a circle of trust as a holding space for transformation • Understand the difference between a problem and a predicament • Notice tendencies for fear-based reactivity • Build capacities to PAUSE in order to deepen courageous and compassionate responses to unfolding disruptions • Provide practical and replicable resources to invite others into this field of resilience • Experience the potential of collaboration • Hold space for each other to expand our worldview in order to accommodate the transformation that is needed now |
OUTCOMES
• Redefine “hope” as a calling to uncertainty • Be held in a safe, generative community of belonging • Gain access to additional, ongoing resources for strengthening resilience • Gain new allies on the journey of resilience • Deepen your connection with the more than human world |
The Dakini Speaks
My friends, let’s grow up.
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.
Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice.
Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost.
It’s simple — how could we have missed it for so long?
Let’s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings,
But please, let’s not be so shocked by them.
Let’s not act so betrayed,
As though life had broken her secret promise to us.
Impermanence is life’s only promise to us,
And she keeps it with ruthless impeccability.
To a child she seems cruel, but she is only wild,
And her compassion exquisitely precise:
Brilliantly penetrating, luminous with truth,
She strips away the unreal to show us the real.
This is the true ride — let’s give ourselves to it!
Let’s stop making deals for a safe passage:
There isn’t one anyway, and the cost is too high.
We are not children anymore.
The true human adult gives everything for what cannot be lost.
Let’s dance the wild dance of no hope!
© Jennifer Welwood
My friends, let’s grow up.
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.
Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice.
Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost.
It’s simple — how could we have missed it for so long?
Let’s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings,
But please, let’s not be so shocked by them.
Let’s not act so betrayed,
As though life had broken her secret promise to us.
Impermanence is life’s only promise to us,
And she keeps it with ruthless impeccability.
To a child she seems cruel, but she is only wild,
And her compassion exquisitely precise:
Brilliantly penetrating, luminous with truth,
She strips away the unreal to show us the real.
This is the true ride — let’s give ourselves to it!
Let’s stop making deals for a safe passage:
There isn’t one anyway, and the cost is too high.
We are not children anymore.
The true human adult gives everything for what cannot be lost.
Let’s dance the wild dance of no hope!
© Jennifer Welwood