BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EcoGather - ECPv6.15.14//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:EcoGather X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ecogather.ing X-WR-CALDESC:Events for EcoGather REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250124T185335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T190242Z UID:102899-1741114800-1741122000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief through the frameworks of Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief (The Wild Edge of Sorrow). Inspired by our EcoGathering on Grieving during the autumnal Composting series in 2024 and an increasing urgency to process the compounding loss we experience as the continuation of modernity relies on genocide\, ecocide\, omnicide and fascism’s impingement on our basic rights and liberties\, we will hold space to tend to the complex and often unaddressed grief that accompanies these losses and expand our emotional capacity for collective grieving as a skill for navigating uncertain futures. \nIn this second session\, our first meeting will be for sharing the grief that arises for each one of us at The Second Gate\, The places that have not known love. Holding tender space for the places within ourselves that have never been given the chance to know love\, this Sharing Session is an opportunity to release our grief to be witnessed and held in the collective well of sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Integration Session offered the following week\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n  \nRecommended Resources \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3\nFor the second session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Second Gate: The places that have not known love” (pages 31-46) \nThe Five Gates of Grief\nA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-2-sharing/ CATEGORIES:Sharing Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250204T185231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T150111Z UID:103087-1741176000-1741181400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Living Time DESCRIPTION:Register! \n \n \n \n \n \n The physical spaces we inhabit both shape and reflect how we spend our time and what our overculture values. We infrequently immerse ourselves in lush landscapes\, taking time to wander off path\, stopping to notice an oak gall or to observe that you can only find butterflies around the weedy goldenrod growing in the ditch. Far more often\, we drive past at 60 miles an hour\, completely encased in plastic and metal. We don’t let sprouting acorns planted by squirrels grow to maturity. Instead we mow them and all the other “weeds” down\, then budget massive amounts of time and resources into cultivating trees and ornamental bushes offsite to then transplant them. But the living world doesn’t work on the impatient timescales of the dominant contemporary economy. Beings\, ecosystems\, and all their interconnected relationships take time to form\, time to grow to maturity\, and time to recover when damaged. We humans don’t take the time to understand ecosystems\, to engage with them and to humbly ask what they need. If we want to contribute to a more resilient\, emergent abundance\, we must examine how we all relate to time — goldenrod and oak trees included. \nRecommended resources for this gathering:Deep Time Diligence: An Interview with Tyson YunkaportaFrihet\, by Peter SandburgGrowing Through Grief: Derek Jarmin\, by Maria PopovaModern Nature by Derek JarminDavid Farrier: Wild Clocks URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/livingtime/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250225T160916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T200153Z UID:103555-1741435200-1741440600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Post Capitalist Parenting DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Capitalism has placed us under many spells that influence and limit what we believe to be normal and natural. Parenting is one intimate site where capitalism’s spell is particularly impactful. Often leaving parents and children to feel especially isolated\, alone\, and precarious—perfect for keeping working people separated and oppressed and for grooming children into docile workers under capitalism. \nTo kick off Upstream’s new series on Post Capitalist Parenting and intersect it with EcoGather’s interest in Parenting at the End of the World as We Know It\, we invited on Toi Smith\, mother of four and a Growth and Impact Strategist. Toi’s work centers on doing life\, business\, and motherhood differently and collaborating with people who are countercultural\, liberatory\, and revolutionary. \nIn the this episode-anchored EcoGathering\, we will consider what Capitalism has whispered to us about what parenting should look like and what it is for. Join us to deconstruct mothering\, fathering\, and caring for the next generations under capitalism and swap post capitalist child-rearing strategies. \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nUpstream Podcast: Post Capitalist Parenting with Toi Marie SmithForget Hallmark: Why Mother’s Day is a Queer Black Feminist Left Thing\, in Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines\, Alexis Pauline GumbsOur Role As New Paradigm Parents\, excerpted from Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis\, by Jo delAmorNicole Civita: Parenting at the End of the World as We Know It \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/post-capitalist-parenting/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/7edwo30e32k.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250213T173518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T190540Z UID:103321-1741719600-1741726800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief through the frameworks of Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief (The Wild Edge of Sorrow). Inspired by our EcoGathering on Grieving during the autumnal Composting series in 2024 and an increasing urgency to process the compounding loss we experience as the continuation of modernity relies on genocide\, ecocide\, omnicide and fascism’s impingement on our basic rights and liberties\, we will hold space to tend to the complex and often unaddressed grief that accompanies these losses and expand our emotional capacity for collective grieving as a skill for navigating uncertain futures. \nIn this Integration Session\, we will focus on working with the grief that was revealed in the last week’s Sharing Session for The Second Gate of Grief\, The places that have not known love. Through guided discussion and ritual\, we will allow this unearthed grief to move into practice as we venture into a collective Apprenticeship with Sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Sharing Session offered the week prior\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n  \nRecommended Resources: \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3For the second session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Second Gate: The places that have not known love” (pages 31-46) \nThe Five Gates of GriefA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-2-integration/ CATEGORIES:Integration Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T143000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250204T184048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T191819Z UID:103080-1742475600-1742481000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Necessity DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n We are a planting species. For thousands upon thousands of years\, humans have tended to ecosystems\, and perhaps our most substantial partners in that co-creative relationship were\, and still are\, plants. Matters of regeneration and rewilding are immensely necessary to help the living world — and by extension\, us — survive the onslaught of civilization. But rekindling and nurturing an abundant\, emergent relationship with plants and ecosystems is also necessary for us to express that innate\, deeply human part of themselves that has worked intimately with plants for millennia. On this final call\, we’ll gather to appreciate how essential an ecomaximalist world is. Ultimately\, we can begin to ask: How can we learn to see and empower the living world differently? \n \nThere are no resources to read or listen to for this week’s call. We’re going to explore the abundance and aliveliness in our daily lives. Take a few moments throughout your days to notice and appreciate the lives around you! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/necessity/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250203T213246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T222637Z UID:103061-1742493600-1742500800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Solidarity DESCRIPTION:  \nOur work as people who want and deserve better is to understand the game\, stop playing in the ways that we can\, get clearer about the kind of world in which we want to live\, and be more involved politically and in our communities instead of less. – Toi Marie Smith \nThrough the lens of collapse awareness\, interdependence is apparent and solidarity becomes essential to survival. We recognize that we are all beings suffering from a devastated biosphere\, an insatiable extractive economy\, and socio-geo-political decline. When we say all\, we really mean all: all human beings\, all more-than-human beings\, all communities of all beings\, and all future beings who will inherit the effluent of empire. Ultimately\, nobody will be spared the sufferings of collapse\, especially those humans and non-humans with less wealth\, power\, or protections. We share far more in common with present and future living beings than we do money\, machinery\, the economy\, or the aspirations of empires. \nSolidarity invites us to show up for other people fighting what turns out to be the same fight as ours – even if we are not positioned on the front lines. It offers us an opportunity to contribute what we can (in whatever forms or concentrations we can share) to a struggle for survival that may not be distinctly or acutely ours\, but diffuses easily across the porous membranes between self and other. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/solidarity/ LOCATION:Hard-Pressed Community Print Shop\, 12 VT Rt. 15\, West Danville\, Vermont CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/hp-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T200000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250204T183237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T135512Z UID:103077-1742927400-1742932800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:What is Work? DESCRIPTION:Register! \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBy some estimates\, contemporary humans\, on average\, spend about 1/3 of their lifetimes “working”. (Actual proportions of time spent “working” vs. sleeping vs. engaged in leisure pursuits vary widely based on culture\, economic system\, ability\, need/wealth\, gender\, — and also based on what we actually count as “work.”) Without question\, it’s evident that work makes up a significant portion of the human experience. In a clever capitalist catch-22\, we spend so much of our time and energy working\, that we never really get the chance to explore the question of what really is work\, anyways? Where did it come from\, and who does it serve? Is there inherent value to work? And why do we spend so much of our precious time living doing it? \nIn the 20th and early 21st centuries\, we’ve tended to narrowly define work as the labor we perform in exchange for wages or other monetary earnings. This construction is broad in that it covers a wide range of roles across all aspects of society\, necessary or essential\, productive or value-adding\, non-essential and incidental to profit generation\, and questionable or degenerative. But it is also narrow in that it excludes the typically unpaid labor required to meet the demands of daily living. This oft-unpaid work (known variously as carework or social reproductive labor) has been disproportionately assigned to women in recent centuries. (Indeed\, the persistent non- or under-compensation of this work is a powerful means of upholding the patriarchy\, but we’ll get to that later in our Exploitation session). For now\, suffice it to say that what is or could be considered work varies widely. So\, we will begin this cycle by unpacking a familiar term\, exploring our perceptions of work\, and evaluating definitions provided to us by physicists\, ancient Greeks\, and modern society. \n\n  \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nThe School of Life: History of Ideas – WorkMichael Luong: The Past\, Present\, and Future of WorkMuch To Do: Relating to and Reuniting with Our Working Lives URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/what-is-work/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1scwrpgnny8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250327T203000 DTSTAMP:20260409T100114 CREATED:20250124T191359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250323T154109Z UID:102903-1743100200-1743107400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief through the frameworks of Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief (The Wild Edge of Sorrow). Inspired by our EcoGathering on Grieving during the autumnal Composting series in 2024 and an increasing urgency to process the compounding loss we experience as the continuation of modernity relies on genocide\, ecocide\, omnicide and fascism’s impingement on our basic rights and liberties\, we will hold space to tend to the complex and often unaddressed grief that accompanies these losses and expand our emotional capacity for collective grieving as a skill for navigating uncertain futures.  \nJoin us in our third session as we direct our grief to The Third Gate\, The Sorrows of the World. In this Sharing Session all participants are welcome to release the grief that arises at this gate to be witnessed and held in the collective well of sorrow. It’s highly recommended that you attend the companion Integration Session offered the following week\, for the sake of group continuity and comfortability\, as well as the opportunity to fully sit with the experience of witnessing and processing the grief at this gate. \n  \nRecommended Resources \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3For the third session of this series\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The Third Gate: The sorrows of the world” (pages 46-53) \nThe Five Gates of GriefA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief-3-sharing/ CATEGORIES:Sharing Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR