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:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161601 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:20260403T161602 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:20260403T161602 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:20260403T161602 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:20260403T161602 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:20260403T161602 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:20260403T161602 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:20260403T161602 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241126T030232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241206T203410Z UID:101849-1733742000-1733747400@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-2/ CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/qjgz9pjg3sk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241204T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241116T064439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T044011Z UID:101564-1733337000-1733342400@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/ 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:20241203T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241203T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241106T015404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T081650Z UID:101276-1733247000-1733252400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Mystery DESCRIPTION:Register!\n \n \n \n \n \n If we step away from the dominant culture’s compulsion to classify\, measure\, quantify\, and know everything it can\, we find ourselves in the realm of mystery. There is a whole other side of the world that cannot be known\, but only marveled at and dumbfounded by. There is a whole other kind of knowing not ground in causal certainty\, but a certain kind of intuiting\, or feeling\, or experiencing. Join us this week as we explore the mysteries in the world around us and appreciate the mysteries in our own lives. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering:\n\nMarin Morgan: A Quantitative Cosmology\nBayo Akomolafe: The poetics of the preposterous\nPhoebe Zerwick: What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living\nMary Oliver: Bone URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-mystery/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/pq2djbntzw0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241126T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241126T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241106T013850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241127T014906Z UID:101272-1732640400-1732645800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Prefigurative Politics and Workplace Democracy DESCRIPTION:Register! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/prefigurative-politics-and-workplace-democracy/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/signal-2024-11-02-130037_002.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241120T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241120T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241106T013200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241116T063250Z UID:101269-1732100400-1732107600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/conversation-starter-office-hours-2/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/opsus5s_6rc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241119T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241106T025119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T034943Z UID:101286-1732042800-1732050000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Re-Commoning DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nGenerative \nIn this final generative EcoGathering of the lunar cycle on Commoning\, we will unveil the beginnings of EcoGather’s digital learning commons to receive feedback and proactive input from our community of learners on how best to develop and manage the space to be most useful and enlivening to its users. We will practice applying what we have learned throughout this lunar cycle to a real-life example. URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-re-commoning/ CATEGORIES:EcoGathering ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/xkghqbh2tg0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241114T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241106T012530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241116T063307Z UID:101267-1731603600-1731610800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Join Here! URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/conversation-starter-office-hours/ CATEGORIES:Social Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/opsus5s_6rc.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241113T193000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241113T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241105T202924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T015819Z UID:101228-1731526200-1731533400@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Commoner's Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nFocus \nDavid Bollier said “There is no commons without commoning.” The commons is more than just a collectively managed resource. It is a nuanced\, adaptive\, participatory culture that requires community\, history\, connection\, communication\, and reciprocity. We may have forgotten the skills and knowledge that make commoning a part of life\, but it is possible to intentionally reclaim the mindset of a commoner with community and practice. How might we learn from examples of historical and contemporary commons to begin reclaiming the commoner’s consciousness? How does a commoner think and view the world? In this EcoGathering\, we will dive deep into a focus session on a piece that explicates the examples of commoning\, and the shared characteristics of commoner cultures\, so as to begin reclaiming these skills in our own communities. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n\n David Bollier: Think Like a Commoner\, Chapter 10 – The Commons as a Different Way of Seeing and Being\nFrontiers of Commoning with David Bollier Podcast: Leah Penniman on ‘Black Earth Wisdom’ URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-commoners-consciousness-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/sheperd.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241111T200000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Karachi:20241111T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241105T202546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T013032Z UID:101226-1731355200-1731360600@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: The Fight for the Congo DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nUpstream Conversation \nOn this special EcoGathering\, we’ll convene to discuss the Upstream podcast episode featuring Vijay Prashad\, The Fight for the Congo. \nThe extraction of materials so necessary for our way of life is inextricable from the suffering of humans and more-than-humans in the DRC (and pretty much anywhere else where mines are operated). Thanks to the work of people like Vijay\, we are forced scrutinize the central promise of the dominant culture – that through inevitable progress\, technology\, growth\, and a “clean energy” revolution\, we can maintain our current consumptive lifestyles and even do good for the world through that consumption. Join us as we explore what it might mean for the DRC to have more sovereignty over its natural wealth\, whether any minerals can ever be extracted ethically even with national sovereignty\, and why we want to extract more minerals from the Earth at all. \nFor people newly interested in EcoGatherings\, we host community-focused virtual gatherings almost every week covering a variety of topics. Those can all be explored here. They’re completely free and you’re always welcome to hop in and out of the calls as you please. \nFor our regular EcoGathering attendees\, this call will be in addition to our usual call cycle. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n1. Upstream Podcast: The Fight for the Congo with Vijay Prashad URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-the-fight-for-the-congo/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/TheFightfortheCongoEcoGathering_28Sanyika_29.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241107T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241107T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241015T214455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T032003Z UID:101010-1731002400-1731007800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Enclosure and Primitive Enclosure DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nConversation \nEnclosure is seen by many as the beginning of capitalism as a dominant economic system. It is an ongoing process of claiming once commonly managed resources (both physical and abstract) as private property that can only be accessed through a financial transaction\, while facilitating the forgetting of the skills and culture needed to cooperatively manage those resources. The history of enclosure is often overlooked\, yet it is a vital piece of the puzzle about how we got to this point of disconnection on the brink of civilizational collapse. In this EcoGathering\, we will discuss the forgotten history of enclosure\, how it is continuing to claim ever more abstract frontiers\, what will happen when it finally runs out of new ones and how we might resist enclosure and reclaim commons. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n1. Daniel Quinn: Our Religions: Are They The Religions of Humanity Itself?2. David Dean: Roots Deeper Than Whiteness\, from White Awake3. How to Find a Public Restroom from How To\, With John Wilson4. Book on Fire Podcast: Caliban and the Witch Introduction5. Upstream Podcast: Capitalism\, The State\, and How We Got Here\, with Christian Parenti \n \n \n \n \n \n test URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-enclosure-and-primitive-enclosure/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/d1yre0gltks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241029T113000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241029T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241015T212903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T213320Z UID:101008-1730201400-1730206800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: The Commons DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nConversation \nIn this lunar cycle of EcoGatherings\, we will discuss the ways that Commons are misunderstood\, and the role that a more nuanced understanding of their past\, present\, and future might serve us in a just transition from this world into the next. To begin the cycle\, we will conversationally unpack our own assumptions\, misconceptions\, fears\, hopes\, around the Commons. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n  URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-the-commons/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/xkghqbh2tg0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241023T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241023T193000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241015T211748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T212254Z UID:101005-1729706400-1729711800@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Attending DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nGenerative \nAttend. Tend. Attention. Tendrils. Etymologically united by the root tendere – to stretch toward\, give heed to – these words convey a process of extension. Stretching one thing towards another\, be it a body towards a place\, energy towards a recipient\, mind towards an idea\, or roots towards the unknown. Attending is how conscious human beings extend themselves to and arrive at the present moment. Modernity often frames attendance as a chore or a calendar task to be completed\, but attendance is much simpler than this; in truth\, we are constantly in attendance to one thing or another\, stretching our minds and energy to whatever is unfolding before us. As we move towards an uncertain future — one we cannot predict with any degree of certainty — we must be ready to adapt the ways in which we show up in attendance to it. \nAfter moving through the necessary sobering work of hospicing\, processing\, and grieving death and loss\, we gather for the last meeting of this lunar cycle for a generative session on attending the birth of something new. Drawing on the framing language provided to us by Vanessa Andreotti and the work of midwifery\, we will explore the skills required of us to attend to the birth of futures that are presently unimaginable. The future is forever fluid. We can never be prepared for what is to come\, but by developing our practice of attending the present moment — and offering care for that which is nascent and precious — we may become better equipped to show up\, extending ourselves in attendance to life as it is born before us. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-attending/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2t4ji-narqa.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241019T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241019T123000 DTSTAMP:20260403T161602 CREATED:20241010T204627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T204627Z UID:100934-1729335600-1729341000@ecogather.ing SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Grieving DESCRIPTION:Register Here!\nFocus \nIn the approach and the wake of death\, we are presented with grief. A word too small to encompass the extent of what it carries in meaning\, grief is a masterkey to an entire warehouse of complex emotions\, memories\, and depth in understanding the world. Because our modern culture largely fails to integrate death into our understanding of life\, many of us have a misconstrued concepts of and strained or guarded relationships to grief. In the absence of an abiding cultural reverence for grief\, and with a lack of practices and norms that make space for its sonorous\, unfurling expressions\, grief is often hidden or minimized. It is viewed as an obstacle we must overcome at a pace compatible with faith in progress. Grief is also viewed as private — some thing we must experiences in solitude. By treating grief as something private\, we miss the opportunity to collectively harness the transformative power of inevitable change in a world that is simultaneously living and dying all around us\, all the time. If metabolism promises to transform life through death\, grief is the guiding force that allows us to remain connected to that living energy. \nFollowing the full moon in this lunar cycle\, we gather together to honor grief as a great gift which allows our love for life to metabolize into other shapes and forms after death. As the scale of loss and mass death we collectively witness expands – be it by genocide\, pandemic\, wildfire\, flood\, or other ecological/cultural events of collapse – so\, too\, must our practice of grief. Through discussion and ritual\, we will dive into the depths of grief to shape our practice of collective grieving and deepen our understanding of its power in cultural transformation. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-grieving/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ecogather.ing/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-asset.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR