Year One Initiatives
"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time." -Angela Davis
Transformation Underground
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weekly “salons” for group education
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possible subjects: simple living, non-cooperation with systems of harm, parallel systems, the polycrisis, intersectional justice, climate collapse, collective liberation, liberation theology, alternative economics, rematriation, decolonization, etc.
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“conscientização”: this praxis-practice will help us unveil the systems of harm we are a part of as well as give us inspiration for how to live differently
Monastic Flow
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The opportunity for daily contemplation to keep our changemaking work grounded in spirit
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Special events such as Liberation Mass, Taizé for Transformation, and Silent Contemplation for Collective Liberation
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Experiments with land-based ritual and ceremony
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A recognition that the spiritual and material are not separate, and that all traditions are valuable
Portalling
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Workshops and experimental spaces to encourage our imaginations and to manifest the world we’re longing for
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Spaces for improvisational world-building and the blurring of our current reality with an emergent one
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Exploring old technologies such as communal grief, storytelling, re-establishing kinship with the land, singing, potlucks, ancestral work
Mutual Aid/ Skill-Building
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What do you need? What can you give?
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Experiments with alternative economies (gift economies/faith-based economies/etc.)
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Workshops to acquire skills that will help us become less dependent on broken systems and more resilient as a community (plant medicine, foraging for edible plants, building small, organic food gardens, seed saving, preserving food)