EcoGather's Vermont-based facilitators of community learning are collaborating with Hard-Pressed Community Print shop in West Danville, Vermont to offer a series of EcoGatherings in the Northeast Kingdom. We're eager to share space, snacks, and substantial-talk – the opposite of small-talk –with folks who are craving conversation about how to live well in a time of endings. These casual, cozy events are an easy way to connect in community, practice co-learning, and get connected to EcoGather's globe-spanning cosmolocal network composed of beings and communities ready to courageously confront the collapse of both the natural systems that we depend upon and human systems that are hostile to life. We help each other make and sustain paradigm shifts.
Join us for any of the upcoming gatherings at the Hard-Pressed Community Print Shop 12 VT Rt. 15, West Danville, Vermont!
Feb 22 3-5pm: Rage and Joy
March 20 6-8pm: Solidarity
April 19 3-5pm: Work
May 17 11am-1pm: Language
June 7 3-5pm: In the Shell of the Old
For more information, see our website. https://ecogather.ing/schedule/
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Our first gathering will be this Saturday, February 22d from 3-5pm, on the topic of Rage and Joy.
Are we allowing rage and joy, grief and celebration, to remain fiercely connected to each other?
Are we tending to each so that neither trauma nor delusion define us?
We 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?
On 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?
Feb 21, 2025, 12 to 1 PM
Burlington Garden Club SpeakerFeb 25, 2025, 1 to 2:30 PM
Forum on Community JusticeFeb 26, 2025, 6 to 8 PM