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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/
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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/
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SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Hospicing
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 1\, 20247:00 PM 8:30 PM\nRegister Here!\nConversation \nIn the cycle of life and death\, death is grossly misunderstood. Dying has been marketed as the ultimate defeat to living – it’s a product of disaster\, discomfort and disease. We often shroud it in euphemisms to avoid offending life. It is an unwanted crack in the glass of a mass individualist delusion that a valid measure of the quality of a life is how well it eludes death. In a dominant culture obsessed with vilifying death\, we’ve lost our ability to acknowledge it’s inextricable relationship to life itself. Denying death’s inevitability leaves a gaping hole in the understanding of the intimate section of life on the precipice of death – in denying death\, we deny life itself. What would it look like if we were to recognize and actively tend to what is dying before us with the same loving care that we give to what is living? \nThis October lunar cycle invites us to explore the ways that we can – and must – welcome death back into the discourse. We will gather for the first session to discuss what is means to actively hospice as a verb\, a beautiful and seamless addition to the lexicon thanks to Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s inspiring work Hospicing Modernity. As we stand on the precipice of a long-denied cultural death of the modern\, dominant culture of Western patriarchal capitalism\, we will hold space for the unsettling acceptance of what must be relinquished as necessary work for showing up fully to the birth of what is to come. Over the course of this cycle we will come together to hospice\, grieve\, metabolize\, and attend together\, bearing witness to and welcoming the infinite cycle of death and life. Join the first session to offer your awareness to that which is dying around and within us and develop your own stamina for letting go of attachments to the futurity built from what we’ve known. \nRecommended resources for this EcoGathering: \n  \n\nFirst Voices Radio: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti\nEmily Shaljian: In the Presence of Death: Hospicing\nStephen Jenkinson: The Meaning of Death\nTrebbe Johnson: Earth Hospice: Hearing the Cries of the Earth
URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-hospicing/
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SUMMARY:EcoGathering: Roots & Fruits
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URL:https://ecogather.ing/event/ecogathering-roots-fruits/
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