The purpose of our second workshop was to:
1. Re-gather and reflect after the outreach workshops
2. Create visions of social ecological change
3. Set Intentions to make change together in 2022
Workshop 1
Reconnecting to my Inner Playground.
Today at The Giants Playground,
the weather wonderful and the landscape glistened.
Heart,
play in nature, and
time for play and process,
connection, care, collaboration,
_-Reflections...
_-Visions...and thoughts
Why did you decide to come back for this workshop?
Visions for change and for this project
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To connect with the topic an see how I can contribute further to the group.
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Connecting with my creativity.
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Borrow/adapt tools for my own practice.
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Observation, participation, curiosity, new experiences.
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Reconnecting to my Inner Playground.
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Workshop as protective/sheltered space for connecting through play.
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People connecting in the process without the pressure of outcome
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Allow time for play/process, change maybe happens when we allow time for connection and play
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Exploring what change means to us/participants, first through art/play and then with words.
To build community
Heart centred practice for change - care
There were seven of us today at
The Giants Playground, the wind whipped ...
but we were windsweep and snug together.
Community
A big Pot of Soup,
Feminism, Capitalism,
Connection, Empowerment,
Art, Farming, Tree Planting,
Linking Arms, Staying with the Trouble,
Amorphous feeling state ... and more.
Workshop 2
_-Reflections...
Why did you decide to come back for this workshop?
Its a way of building community in connection with nature,
of reaching into myself and outside of myself at the same time. I found the first workshop rewarding in that we were all being creative individually and it all came together into a sort of group creativity.
We took lots of different natural materials and made a gorgeous mess on the table with it. A mess is another name for a big pot of soup, and I think there are few things more communal than big pots of soup. That was how the first workshop affected me, it was like making and drinking soup with some fellow humans.
My memory of the first workshop is not visual but tactile I remember there were materials that felt very dry and light to the touch, bone dry twigs and wool so I choose a charcoal stick to draw something with but the picture won't be important, just the experience of holding the charcoal which is also very dry and light.
GH: Ecotone - At the edges of things, the liminal space. Another term for ecology edges, or coming from another concept?
I decided to come back because I knew there was a reason I committed. I feel grateful to be a participant in something that is a bit of a mystery yet creative and socially ecologically aligned.
I feel that I want/need support in my intentions for change and action.
I'm curious. I hope to get some new perspective.
Some nourishing time spent with others in a creative way.
I'm curious.
Nourishment, Inspiration, Connection.
it was a phrase that really stuck out to me in the last workshop. It speaks to my desire for action and education simultaneously.
It feels inspiring, it lights me up, awakens something in me. It's messy but clear. It gets my mind going with ideas. Sparks. Excitement in a deep place.
Curiosity as to where the project would lead. Reflections.
I bring the memory of the practice for me to let go, to not have my art be systematic, learning to let inspiration land whenever it chooses, no control of outcome. Saying that, I ask if this second workshop will continue that 'lesson'.
Will I let things just Land?
Sitting on this stone the sun peaking out from behind the clouds, birds landing taking off from the pond - nature is perfect and there is no needs for perfection, symmetry or control.
The Giants Playground
Curiosity Exploring Empowerment
Fighting Uniting Learning
Connecting with Past and Future
Creativity Change
Push Boundaries Find New Ones
_-Visioning _
_-Intentions for Change_
The area where I live is populated by lots of people in houses and gardens who look out of their windows and marvel at the countryside around us.
Most of us care in the last 30 years, then there's the farmers who own acres and acres of land, and they grew up here. The land for them is also beautiful but it's also a business and they have families to feed and debts to pay off.
I always dream of communities intentionally living in small pockets weaving together the skills needed to live simply, the artist, the bakers, the gardener, the shepherds, the healer, all working, teaching, sharing and growing
Nature has Rights nurture those rights
Respect, love, kindness,
Listen, watch, breathe
Who are we?
What part in all this do we play?
Shout out from the mountains, beaches, hear us listen,
it is time,
it has to come, a common consciousness,
collective consciousness, global communion,
look, listen,
feel it - everywhere
love abounds,
beauty is in abundance, tiny, small, large, enormous, it all is connected,
we need each other.
_-Really Useful Questions Emerging _
How do we build community?
How do we collaborate democratically?
What part in all this do we play?
Weaving outcomes from workshop 2 to inform workshop 3. Workshop 3 leaflets.
