Earth Literacies
Igniting our connection with Earth
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PROGRAM
Towards an Earth-Centred Subjectivity:
A 4-week Series in Somatic Education for Earthlings
with Cassandra Wells, Ph.D.
Starting January 10th @ 10:00 AM Pacific
Register now for early bird access to the login codes for recordings page, readings and handouts (when available).
It is clear that we are living at a time when Earth and the systems it has evolved to sustain life are in decline,
due to the influence of extractive and accumulative human cultures. At the core of these cultures is the modern view of humanity as separate from and more evolved than Earth and other creatures arising from it. This myth of separation forms the basis for the only world most Western people have known; a world in which human culture has transcended nature, and nature has been demoted to the status of resource, commodity, or property. This relation to Earth is not only cultural, in that our ...
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Join physical educator and ecozoic futurist, Dr. Cassandra Wells, in a 4-week exploration of the forces that connect your own human body with the Earth. Using your body’s capacities to sense the inner and outer world (capacities like touch, sound, balance, interoception), participants can develop the ability to “feel” their place in the ecological system of Earth. The sessions will be composed by exercises drawn from Awareness Through the Body (ATB), a physical education system based in integral yoga... ... exercises that bring the attention to some of the forces that connect us – gravity, homeostasis, and emergence. Read More
Cassandra Wells, Ph.D. is a running coach, theorist of the body, and ecozoic futurist, working broadly in the field of physical and ecological education. She currently coaches and teaches at the University of Toronto, and supports the programming efforts at PIEL. Her work centres on the theory and practice of body-based methods for teaching and learning in order to begin dismantling the internalized structures of modernity, and to open a space for a more intimate and integrated experience of the world.
Dates: 4 Tuesdays - Jan 10, 17, 24, 31.
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Cost: $60.00 (Please do not let cost deter you from attending - Click Here to learn more about funding)
Location: Zoom on-line – a link will be sent to you a few days before the program begins.
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THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PROGRAM
Deep Adaptation: Loving Through Collapse
with Lisa Gordon
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Register now to receive early bird access readings, exercises, resource links and login password.
These four sessions will explore ways to face collapse with a loving heart. Participants will be curious about what is in our emotional and spiritual emergency kits and what we can learn from each other about what is possible during an existential threat.
Our facilitator, Lisa Gordon, is a 40-year veteran of environmental campaigns. She is an accredited facilitator with the Center for Courage & Renewal and an active volunteer with Deep Adaptation. She facilitates in a structured way, supporting private reflection and voluntary sharing, but not debate.
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Dates: 4 Tuesdays - Feb 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific / 2:00 - 4:00 PM Eastern
Cost: $60.00 (Please do not let cost deter you from attending. Ask us about our funding for programs.)
Location: On-line – A Zoom Link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the program begins.
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