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:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD 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:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Karachi BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0500 TZOFFSETTO:+0500 TZNAME:PKT DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE 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:20250305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 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:20250304T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 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:20250227T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T110000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241127T205610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T221525Z UID:101880-1740650400-1740654000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Open Hours (Nissa) DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/open-hours-nissa/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/m9f8vr0jepm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250204T181030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T205910Z UID:103066-1740592800-1740598200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Abundance DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n The gardens of our imaginations may be verdant and flowering places\, but a tremendous amount of what’s done in the name of horticulture\, infrastructure and agriculture creates landscapes of botanical and ecological scarcity. Whether mowing lawns\, mulching garden beds\, or paving a parking lot\, we have created\, are surrounded by\, and have become acculturated to the very voids that nature abhors. Given this ecologically impoverished state of affairs\, how might we summon the ecological abundance that exists in our midst at the scale and pace that is needed to offset what is passively termed as “habitat loss?” We could follow the cues of charismatic weeds and build flourishing landscapes that fulfill the needs of the human and non-human world alike. Could cultural and botanical reproduction co-create new lands outside of conventional capitalist paradigms? Might we call this approach “eco-maximalism”? \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nNick Anderson: Improvised LandscapesNick Anderson: The Opposite of ExtinctionOlogies Podcast with Alie Ward: Ethnoecology with Leigh JosephThe Wildlife Homestead: I Built a Wildlife Pond \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/abundance/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Abundance.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250224T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250224T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T234950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T235000Z UID:101866-1740394800-1740400200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-10/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250203T212442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T212939Z UID:103057-1740236400-1740243600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Rage and Joy DESCRIPTION:  \nAre we allowing rage and joy\, grief and celebration\, to remain fiercely connected to each other?\nAre we tending to each so that neither trauma nor delusion define us? \nWe will start by exploring how we might express our individual and collective rage without being overwhelmed and subsumed by it. Rage may at once be a true reaction to the events around us\, or perhaps a debilitating manifestation of other emotions such as grief\, fear\, or impotence. How might we discern between these valid reactions and metabolize the helpful parts of that energy into something useful action and sustainable? \nOn the flip side of holding our rage is to find glimmers of joy to sustain us despite all that is going on around us. How can we use expressions of joy to balance our rage\, to sustain our fire and celebrate the little things as a form of radical resistance? URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/rage-and-joy/ 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=Asia/Karachi:20250220T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T024602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T204433Z UID:101845-1740079800-1740085200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Kin DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n There is one identity that cuts across all other labels we could apply to humans and more-than-humans\, no matter what kinds of citizens or conquerers or stewards we and others might be. Beneath it all\, we are all irrevocably kin.

This relationship to each other has been (and must be) suppressed in the name of growth\, progress\, and superiority. Join us this week as we discuss how we can welcome back kinship into the interconnected world. \n\n\nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nTo read: \nKinship Beneath the Family Tree: Emily’s blog post about expanding the limits of our understanding of Kinship \nKinship is a Verb: A conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer\, John Hausdoerffer\, and Gavin Van Horn \nTo listen: \n A Little More Than Kin: A conversation with Richard Powers \nTo view: \nAncestral Mathematics \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-kin/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/fq2yx56wq-y.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250219T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250219T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T234440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T224629Z UID:101865-1739989800-1739995200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-9/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250217T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250128T203048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T212902Z UID:102944-1739793600-1739800800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Intentional Community Study Group DESCRIPTION:This is a mixed-experience group of people with different skills to research and assess varied models for collective and cooperative land-based living\, sustenance\, and enterprise. Study group members will identify together several possible paths to investigate more fully\, divide up the work of familiarizing themselves with helpful models\, literature\, and case-studies. \nWe will meet in 5-session cycles with breaks in between. This cadence of focused study punctuated by periods for absorption\, reflection\, and implementation is intended to enable participants to sustain engagement and to support each other in moving from theory through ideation into practical action. In this way\, we can balance group formation\, active collaboration\, and openness to newcomers. \nAt the end of the first 10-week cycle\, study group participants will make suggestions about schedule for the next cycle\, including choosing a new book. EcoGather will reopen the study group to new participants. If you are interested in joining for the next cycle\, learn more about the group and apply\, follow the button below. \n \n Learn More and Apply! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/intentional-community-study-group-event/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jwuv9ngb3ue.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250123T164113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T180604Z UID:102860-1739386800-1739392200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Autonomous Communications Club DESCRIPTION:Join Here!\n \n \n \n \n \n In this study group club we discuss all the myriad ways we might gain great control of our communications\, whether for crisis response\, grid-down scenarios\, increased security\, improved attention\, and anything in between. In this session one of our participants will be presenting on the use of Meshtastic! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/autonomous-communications-club/ CATEGORIES:Study Group ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/yz6ouonpxxy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250212T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250212T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T023744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T153803Z UID:101843-1739361600-1739367000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Citizens DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n What does it mean to exist as a “citizen”? A citizen of where\, exactly? We are only told to identify as a citizen of a nation-state (in the context of empire)\, and we are reduced into so many other flattening categories conducive to the growth of oppressive systems (“consumers”\, “voters”\, and other labels that amputate our role in the world and leave us only as captured participants in abusive systems). Can we simultaneously exist as citizens of empire\, of our smaller communities\, and the living world? \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\n1. Nissa Coit: The Good Citizen \n2. Jon Alexander: Citizens not Consumers or Subjects \n3. Political Philosophy with Dr. Laurie Johnson: Who is a Citizen? URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-citizens/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pv9_u0zdk4e.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241127T204239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T201150Z UID:101879-1739293200-1739296800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Open Hours (Erik) DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/office-hours-erik/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/m9f8vr0jepm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250210T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250210T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T233141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T153516Z UID:101864-1739185200-1739190600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-8/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250124T164226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250208T153052Z UID:102876-1739098800-1739104200@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Good Grief DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Good Grief is a group exploration of our collective grief guided by 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 for the first of a series of five sessions in which we will discuss and tenderly hold the grief that awaits us at The First Gate of Grief\, which welcomes in the familiar grief accompanying the understanding that everything we love\, we will lose. \n  \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Recommended Resources \nThe Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller\, Chapter 3For this first session\, it’s highly recommended that you read the section of this chapter subtitled “The First Gate: Everything you love\, you will lose” \nThe Five Gates of GriefA brief summary of each of the five gates of grief URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/good-grief/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering 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:20250206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250107T003040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250201T214828Z UID:101841-1738870200-1738875600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Stewards DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n What is our place in the world? What should it be? What do we have to offer Earth and her living and non-living (so far as we think we know) communities?

 We regularly see appeals to the privilege or necessity of humans as stewards of the Earth. But what do these claims imply — ownership\, power over\, possession? Are we above the Earth\, separate from her\, as her managers? Where does our stewardship lead — or\, how do we choose to make decisions as stewards? Do we choose what’s best for all beings\, or do we consciously or unconsciously shape the world for our specific benefit?

The idea of being a steward does get at an important point of course: we can and should have a role in co-creating an abundant\, diverse living world. Could we do that as stewards? Or perhaps it’s better to imagine ourselves as siblings or neighbors\, a more horizontal relationship with all other non-human members of the living world. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nMordecai Ogada: The Big Conservation Lie \nLyla June: 3\,000 Year Old Solutions to Modern Problems \nRob Lewis: No Nature Poems\, Please URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-stewards/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/d-cen-60svk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250205T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250205T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T232622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T231546Z UID:101863-1738780200-1738785600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-7/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20250108T180059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250123T182313Z UID:101839-1738157400-1738162800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Conquerers DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Humans are offered – forced into\, really – relatively few roles and identities in modernity. On this first call\, we’ll unpack how we’ve been made to live as conquerers\, occupiers\, Homo colossus\, separated from and domineering over the living world. Our population\, our consumption\, and the myths we’ve been offered all inform this role we can choose to resist. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\n \nGenghis Khan (Part 2) – How to Take Over the World podcast \nConquerors and Culture – National Geographic \n \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-conquerers/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jfowjsakux0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250127T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250127T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T231741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T231245Z UID:101859-1737975600-1737981000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-6/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250122T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250122T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T231022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T230710Z UID:101857-1737570600-1737576000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-5/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250121T180000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250121T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T013708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T173022Z UID:101837-1737482400-1737482400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Patience DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n “Good things come to those who wait.” “Patience is a virtue.” Perhaps\, but at the very least we all have experienced the necessary practice of patience in our own lives. On our final call of this shortened cycle\, we’ll convene around the practice and lessons of patience\, which can feel especially challenging when we feel so much urgency. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nThe Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down – Bayo Akomolafe \nTaking Just a Little Bit of Time – Guy Davis \nPatience – The Lumineers URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-patience/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/91ss5scorny.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250115T113000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250115T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T005657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T170020Z UID:101834-1736940600-1736946000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Darkness DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nDarkness — non-metaphorical\, the lack of light in the physical world — is an increasingly rare phenomenon\, although it certainly feels like we have an abundnace of darnkess in these northern hemisphere winters. Darkness — metaphorical\, all the difficult things in the world – is\, unfortunately\, not an increasingly rare phenomenon. For this call\, we’ll focus mostly on the former\, but just as it’s crucial to acknowledge the necessity of darkness for the critters and habitats on Earth\, it’s neccessary to acknoledge the darkness we feel (gently\, of course — we don’t need to dive too deep into the darkness of the world).

What lessons can we and\, whether we want to or not\, must we learn from darkness\, physical and metaphorical? On this call\, we’ll figure a bit of that out together. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nBeing With the Dark – A practice for observing darkness \nlight\, dark\, light – A song by Angie McMahon and Fred again…  \nI Pray for the Dark – A poem by Tom Hirons URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-darkness/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sg128ujzdmu.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250113T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250113T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T221706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T230423Z UID:101856-1736766000-1736771400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-duplicate/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250109T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250109T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T003833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T212743Z UID:101819-1736451000-1736456400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Presence DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n This shorter cycle’s will focus on slower\, quieter themes as we begin the new calendar year that will surely be full of more disruptions and uncertainty. As winter begins to settle in deeper for us in the northern hemisphere\, we’ll sit with the elements that accompany this time of year (but are relevant\, of course\, anywhere on Earth at any given time\, no matter your hemisphere of habitation): presence\, darkness\, and patience.

Modernity pushes us into ever more rapid performance\, consumption\, and reaction. In the accelerating chaos unfolding around us\, we can all benefit from some stillness in our lives. Whether through meditation\, prayer\, habit\, rest\, even sleep\, stillness has quite a lot to offer. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nTodd Hannigan – Bison \nTara Brach – Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19 min) \nKimberly Blaeser – About Standing (in Kinship) \nClaude Monet – Water Lilies \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-presence/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/05buidzovkg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250108T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250108T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T220502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T230115Z UID:101855-1736361000-1736366400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-4/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250107T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20250107T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241203T032039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250103T220617Z UID:101922-1736269200-1736274600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Upstream EcoGathering: How to Be a Good Ancestor with Roman Krznaric DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n In a recent interview on the Upstream podcast\, author and philosopher Roman Krznaric shared insight into how the dominant culture’s expansive colonization extends not only geographically\, but temporally. “The tyranny of the now\,” or the short-term thinking so ubiquitously incentivized and enforced by financial markets\, 24/7 media\, digital consumption\, political campaign cycles\, workplaces\, and even unassuming technologies like the clock\, leads us to obsess over the immediate at the expense of the future. This neglect of future human and more-than-human lives and communities informs our cannibalistic economics and layered ecological crises. If we tend to view the future as a receptacle for our current “externalities”\, and if we consume now the resources and ecosystems future generations will need\, then we are stealing wealth from the future to enrich us now: we have colonized the future. \nPerhaps\, then\, we should consider what it would mean to decolonize the future. How can we be good ancestors for all those who will follow us? Join us on this collaborative EcoGathering\, where we’ll explore the implications of Roman Krznaric’s conversation on Upstream. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\nUpstream Podcast: How to Be a Good Ancestor with Roman Krznaric URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/upstream-ecogathering-how-to-be-a-good-ancestor-with-roman-krznaric/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-2024-12-02-at-4.40.21 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241230T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241230T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241216T180911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241218T160609Z UID:102243-1735581600-1735596000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:As the Creek Rises: A Convivial Gathering of Flooded Fellowship DESCRIPTION:RSVP!\n \n \n \n \n \n We would love for you to join us at Urban Orchard Cidery on December 30th at 6pm. There will be free food\, a live performance from Bobby Frith\, and convivial discussion about where we are headed. \nEcoGather’s core team have had intimate experience with disasters like this. As a result\, we are skillful in connecting those working within the cracks of the old system and convening conversation to mobilize our collective energies and assets to create livable futures. Nissa and Nicole are based in Vermont\, which experiences frequent flooding – in the past two years\, catastrophically. In the Vermont floods of 2023\, Nissa was completely displaced from her home and lost many of her possessions. Exactly a year later\, more Vermont communities were flooded\, some for the second or even third time in a year. Just a few months later\, Nissa watched as her hometown was destroyed by Hurricane Helene\, and the entire EcoGather community waited on anxious edge for days to hear whether our community members\, including EcoGather consulting scholar\, Lauren\, were safe and to figure out how we could help. \nThose in our community who have witnessed and experienced instances of devastating disruptions react with a mix of deep empathy and a lack of surprise. We accepted that it was only a matter of time before disaster was at our doors. Some of us even have admitted to feeling a (complicated) sense of relief that we were mentally prepared and emotionally resilient in the face of unpredictability\, uncertainty\, and changes to the status quo. At the same time\, we experience a queasy sense of horror that\, despite our foresight\, there was not more we could do to prepare for these types of events. We bristle at the hegemonic\, reflexive desires to “get back to normal” as soon as possible. And we ache when we hear this from people who are hurting hard – but deep down know that more frequent\, severe\, and ubiquitous disruptions are on the way. \nAt the same time\, we are so buoyed by the demonstrations of community care\, unity\, solidarity and effective action we have already seen time and time again and we want to be a part of maintaining this beautiful energy and supporting the continuation of altered effort. To this end\, EcoGather recognized that our enduring\, entwined relationships to two flood impacted communities at opposite ends of the Appalachians and our faith in cosmolocal collaboration gave us a distinct way to engage. While we’re always happy to welcome folks into our virtual spaces\, we also crave a chance to share space and stories in person. \nPlease RSVP at the button above. We can’t wait to explore the possibilities for building in these cracks together. \nSome related offerings from EcoGather: \nNissa Coit: Something That HappenedNicole Civita: FLOWMackenzie Faber: Floods\, Tumors\, and the CatUpstream Podcast: Drinkable Rivers with Li An PhoaUpstream Podcast: Prefigurative Politics and Workplace Democracy with Saio Gradin and Nicole Wires URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/as-the-creek-rises-a-convivial-gathering-of-flooded-fellowship/ LOCATION:Urban Orchard Cidery\, 24 Buxton Ave\, Asheville\, NC\, 28801 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/PXL_20230711_065350009.NIGHT1_-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241223T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241223T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241106T022022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T084152Z UID:101282-1734951600-1734958800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: The Sacred DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Right before much of the world enters the dominant-cultural hegemony Christian holiday of empire-sanctioned celebration\, worship\, and consumption\, we’ll explore the original roots of what this holiday and many others sought to celebrate: the sacred. This is not a session centered on any one organized religion or holiday. It will be a conversation about what we find sacred in the world\, and how we relate to what in our lives – no matter what religion\, spirituality\, or philosophies we follow – is sacred. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-the-sacred/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2_zm7xxrzyk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241218T183000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241218T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241126T030611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T225844Z UID:101850-1734546600-1734552000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Hospicing Modernity Together DESCRIPTION:A guided group reading of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Andreotti)’s Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/hospicing-modernity-together-3/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241217T153000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241106T024652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241218T022843Z UID:101284-1734444000-1734449400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Story DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n How can we hold the unquantifiable more-ness of mystery and spirit? How do we begin to describe and share and live these suspicions\, feelings\, and knowings? Probably the way humans have done it for as long as we’ve had language: through story. This week\, we’ll dive into a particular story as one form of entry into the world of spirit and mystery. \nRecommended resources for this gathering: \nTom Hirons: Sometimes a Wild GodTom Hirons: A Party for the Broken URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-story/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/0a6ezevwjei.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241211T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181219 CREATED:20241106T020247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T204147Z UID:101278-1733943600-1733949000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Spirit DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n Though most of us are now raised under an institutionalized\, empire-approved form of either (monotheistic) religion or aspirituality\, many of us still feel some more-ness exists in our experience of the universe. This week\, though we might lack the cultural and social means to grasp and explain it fully\, we’ll explore that more-ness in the world through the perspective of spirit. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \nThe Emerald: Animism is Normative Consciousness \nUnshod: Talking to Trees and the Indigenization of Acknowledgement with Maōri healer Kahutianui o Te Rangi Zainey \nMalidoma Patrice Somé: Of Water and the Spirit\, brief excerpt \nOshri Hilzenrath: How Does It Feel To Be You? URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-spirit/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/a72o8w9hc2w.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR