EcoGather is a paradigm and practice-shifting collaborative learning network composed of folks ready to courageously confront the collapse of both natural systems that we depend upon and human systems that are hostile to life. Everyone alive today is experiencing an existential opportunity – a rough reckoning with a particularly ungrateful and unwise era of human development and a chance to secure and shape a sequel for humanity.
We invite you to join us for free EcoGatherings – regular, real-time, surprisingly cozy online gatherings held via live, interactive videoconferences. These gatherings offer new and returning members of our globe-spanning community a welcoming virtual space to make sense of a world that does not. We gather around a theme, share some optional readings or podcasts ahead of time, and then explore the topic together. We think of it as gathering in the space between systems and stories, figuring out how to show up for the world(s) our hearts know are possible.
On May 30th, from 6:00 pm - 7:30pm we will focus on Enlivening.
This time, we will appreciate the sensory and sensual (not necessarily sexual) experience of the world around us. We will consider the powerful experience of existing as a body amongst, within, and composed of other bodies. To inhabit the world with this living, somatic lens can be a gift not just to ourselves, but to all the bodies around us. This can open us to new dimensions of aliveness and love. As erotic ecologist author Andreas Weber defines it, love is the desire to bring more aliveness to the beings around you; to help them feel more alive, to express themselves more fully. In so doing, we empower ourselves to feel more alive. Share what makes you feel most radically alive, consider how we might experience intimate relationships with the more-than-human world, and how we can love and enliven the beings around us.
To learn more or to register, check out our events page: https://www.ecogather.sterlingcollege.edu/schedule/ecogathering-social-session-enlivening