Meeting
At last, today we met in person. Not all, but most of us. The Source Book says, “Co-Initiate a Diverse Team”, and so we are. Diverse and busy.
Our initial project was too vague and we all felt the need to clarify our common intention, while at the same time making ReTReAT a comfortable place for all of us. I think we managed to do it.
We want to make and learn in the making of a number of in-person retreats (2-3 this year). Our intention is to dig where we are, to collectively access deep knowledge (research) and sources of resilience. This we do by grounding ourselves in silence and in the body, and in a particular place (but not exclusively), not to escape but to face the harsh realities of our time.
The retreat is a place to come together, and to come to our senses by coming closer to the nonhuman world or Nature -- a meeting space both for persons and organizations (our two universities, NGOs, etc.) to make time to do the work we really need to do.
Modus operandi:
Our initial project was too vague and we all felt the need to clarify our common intention, while at the same time making ReTReAT a comfortable place for all of us. I think we managed to do it.
We want to make and learn in the making of a number of in-person retreats (2-3 this year). Our intention is to dig where we are, to collectively access deep knowledge (research) and sources of resilience. This we do by grounding ourselves in silence and in the body, and in a particular place (but not exclusively), not to escape but to face the harsh realities of our time.
The retreat is a place to come together, and to come to our senses by coming closer to the nonhuman world or Nature -- a meeting space both for persons and organizations (our two universities, NGOs, etc.) to make time to do the work we really need to do.
Modus operandi:
- The core team meets briefly but weekly, Wednesday or Tuesday at 1pm. Mostly online, but in person when necessary.
- In March 3 we host a full day workshop on campus (morning) and Impact Hub Donostia (afternoon).
- In late April we will do a sensing journey into Arantzazu, to listen to what the place tell us.
- In May-June-July we organize two weekend retreats in Arantzazu, prototypes to iterate and revise.
The extended team will slightly change in those different activities, but it will include:
- people from the two universities
- people from the Arantzazu ecosystem
- NGO delegates (Emaus and others in the Unibertsitate Kritiko Sarea network)
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