“At the timeplace when we finally look up, gaze on the horizon, which horizon will we see, which horizon will we move toward?”
A FREE circle to imagine and weave our stories of the future we wish to build from these times of disruption. To look towards the horizon with Hope, Courage & Clarity
Significant parts of our society are crumbling, dying, preparing to compost. It is a frightening, unpredictable time. It can be so easy and understandable to focus our attention on the chaos, fear, pain, the shock-and-awe tactics being thrown at us in order to distract us from the fact that the Beast of patriarchal, white supremacist culture is in it’s death throes.
Something new will be born from this, a new world will be built. What form it takes depends on where we focus our attention.
“Awareness is what determines the impact of the pattern—awareness of self, others and the conditions of this moment.””
What if we chose to focus our attention on the openings present in the chaos? On the potential of a beautiful world growing from the compost of the Beast that is dying? Everything that has been created by humanity was first birthed into someone’s imagination.
Let’s do this together
Supported by community, and by practices that help us regulate our nervous systems to navigate the discomfort of telling a beautiful story about the future when our present feels so lost, at this free gathering we will:
Drop into community together through embodiment practices
Be led through sensory visualizations designed to evoke in our imagination specific details about the world you wish for your descendant's to live in
Weave all of these stories together through a ritual circling process
Create space to hold the discomfort and other challenging feelings caused by the tension between our current reality and the world we long to create
Here are the details, and read on for more context:
PLEASE READ FIRST: This recording of the Story-Caster’s Loom will be included in a free mini-course we are designing for artists, change-makers, activists, and any citizen who is focused on shifting their community in the direction of a better future.
We are seeking folks to participate who feel inspired by the perspectives described here, and are happy to participate in this public-facing recording. It will be shared through HeartScapes’ on-line classroom to anyone who wishes to enroll.
THEREFORE offer this opportunity to you with the following agreements:
By registering for this event, you agree to allow the recording of your participation to be shared with members of the public who enroll in HeartScapes’ mini-course.
Spaces are limited and participation is important, so we ask that you commit to attending the live gathering on the date scheduled. If you register and then discover you cannot make it, we ask that you cancel your registration as soon as possible so that we can make the spot available to another.
Our promise to you is that you will receive great value from this experience, and you will be given first access to the full free course when it is complete.
When: Monday, October 5th, 3:00 - 5:00 Pacific Time / 6:00 - 8:00 Eastern Time
Where: Live on Zoom (link provided at registration)
My Investment: This offering is free to join, as my investment in our collective well-being and future.
Some More Context:
Everything that has been created by humanity was first birthed into someone’s imagination. Every transformed future lived into was first a story dreamed and spoken by courageous people who were born for the times in which they lived. Who cast their stories into the future through their actions.
We have the opportunity—now, in this moment, and again and again as we move from here—to dream into the beautiful world that is emerging from the ashes of the Fallen Tower, even as the Beast’s terrible death throes still shake the Earth. This is also the opportunity to allow these dreams to focus and guide our actions moving forward, just as a vision board helps to guide the actions we take in service of our personal goals.
To be clear, this is not an exercise in toxic positivity, we are not here to “good vibes” over the very real dangers and problems we face, nor distract us from the hard work ahead of us. This is a recognition that if we ONLY focus on these challenges, on the enormity of this moment, we are far more likely to feel afraid and overwhelmed, to remain in reactivity instead of proactivity creativity, and to align our actions with despair rather than with joy and possibility. We must be able to see, to feel, what we wish to experience in the world, so that we can be it.
And so I’m going to invite you into a tender, perhaps frightening and vulnerable practice: To dream and story-cast together about the beautiful world that is even now taking root in our hears and in the world.