** NOTE THAT GARY'S SESSIONS ARE HELD IN HIS OWN ZOOM ROOM - FULL DETAILS BELOW ** This session — hosted from 17:00 to 18:00 Eastern Time every Tuesday — provides an opportunity for participants in A Path Through Tumultuous Times to enjoy some live interaction! Gary's sessions are focused on what meaningful lives look like […]
Our realities are shaped by the physical world we inhabit; whether that's the nature that surrounds us, the humans we interact with in community, the food made accessible to us, or the stories that reach us, filled with knowledge our own realities or those far away. But just as much as we absorb these inputs from the outside world to shape our understanding of it, we are also exerting our own inputs into the realities of others. We all contribute to a greater understanding of the physical world which surrounds us, the Topia we exist in. In this lunar cycle, we will examine the different Topias, from the more familiar types found in literature, Dystopia and Utopia, to the more generative and less well-known genre of Thrutopia and Ourtopia.
This session is offered by our alumni David Baum as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni Wendy (or her friends) as part of the Collapse Club she created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni David as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
Broken down into a literal translation, Utopia means "no place." This Topia is the territory that is often labeled 'off-limits' by an understanding of what is possible, based on what has been possible. It is where the imagination roams when left unbound and free from the limits of realism. Unlike the dystopic stories we question might be playing out in the real world we exist in right now, the utopia is inherently fictional. That being said, it can still serve a functional purpose in world-building. There is incredible power behind the unbound imaginative creative process that occurs when certain limits are removed. New pathways may be revealed for different ways of organizing ourselves into better forms of existence. If there's any room for delusion in Topias, let it be a hopeful delusion which allows us to believe that there is always a better way of being. Join us this week as we wonder with unbound curiosity what utopian ideals we might be able to learn from, comparing lessons from history and literature with our current predicament.
** NOTE THAT GARY'S SESSIONS ARE HELD IN HIS OWN ZOOM ROOM - FULL DETAILS BELOW ** This session — hosted from 17:00 to 18:00 Eastern Time every Tuesday — provides an opportunity for participants in A Path Through Tumultuous Times to enjoy some live interaction! Gary's sessions are focused on what meaningful lives look like […]
This session is offered by our alumni David Baum as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni Wendy (or her friends) as part of the Collapse Club she created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
An hour before our monthly StF gatherings, StF alum Micah holds a gentle, friendly meditation session for those who wish to attend. This concludes half an hour before the gathering, which most participants then attend. You're welcome to join either one without attending the other, of course! Held in our 24/7 Zoom room.
On the first Friday of each month StF course participants past and present gather on Zoom to connect, share and discuss both the state of the world and our respective paths through it. As a participant on A Path Through Tumultuous Times you are more than welcome to join these monthly events, which usually attract […]
This session is offered by our alumni David as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
EcoGather's Vermont based facilitators of community learning are collaborating with Hard-Pressed Community Print shop in West Danville, Vermont to offer a series of EcoGatherings in the Northeast Kingdom. We're eager to share space, snacks, and substantial-talk – the opposite of small-talk –with folks who are craving conversation about who to live well in a time of endings. These casual, cozy events are an easy way to connect in community, practice co-learning, and get connected to EcoGather's globe-spanning cosmolocal network composed of beings and communities ready to courageously confront the collapse of both the natural systems that we depend upon and human systems that are hostile to life. We help each other make and sustain paradigm shifts.
** NOTE THAT GARY'S SESSIONS ARE HELD IN HIS OWN ZOOM ROOM - FULL DETAILS BELOW ** This session — hosted from 17:00 to 18:00 Eastern Time every Tuesday — provides an opportunity for participants in A Path Through Tumultuous Times to enjoy some live interaction! Gary's sessions are focused on what meaningful lives look like […]
Drop in and talk with Nissa or Erik about anything on your mind. If you are new to EcoGather this is a great place to come get up to speed with everything that has been going on in the community. We'll be here for the whole hour, so drop in whenever you can.
This session is offered by our alumni David Baum as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni Wendy (or her friends) as part of the Collapse Club she created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
We can benefit from imagining, ideating, and criticizing utopias and dystopias, but what about right now? Utopias are unachievable and dystopias are undesirable, so what worlds should we inhabit and build, especially now and in the near future? In the pursuit of utopia and in the rejection of dystopia, we encounter Thrutopia.
Join us this week as we explore what thrutopia could look like and mean in this stage of modernity and its ongoing collapse.
This session is offered by our alumni David as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
** NOTE THAT GARY'S SESSIONS ARE HELD IN HIS OWN ZOOM ROOM - FULL DETAILS BELOW ** This session — hosted from 17:00 to 18:00 Eastern Time every Tuesday — provides an opportunity for participants in A Path Through Tumultuous Times to enjoy some live interaction! Gary's sessions are focused on what meaningful lives look like […]
This session is offered by our alumni David Baum as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni Wendy (or her friends) as part of the Collapse Club she created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni David as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
** NOTE THAT GARY'S SESSIONS ARE HELD IN HIS OWN ZOOM ROOM - FULL DETAILS BELOW ** This session — hosted from 17:00 to 18:00 Eastern Time every Tuesday — provides an opportunity for participants in A Path Through Tumultuous Times to enjoy some live interaction! Gary's sessions are focused on what meaningful lives look like […]
This session is offered by our alumni David Baum as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni Wendy (or her friends) as part of the Collapse Club she created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
Join us for a special screening of award-winning documentary film YINTAH (2024), followed by a panel discussion with Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders Eve Saint and Jocey Alec.
For this final EcoGathering, we have partnered with Upstream for a conversation with Rob Hopkins discussing his forthcoming book, How to Fall in Love with the Future. Since this is our final gathering as EcoGather, we will also use Rob's invitations and tools to dream about what comes next for us as otherWise.
This session is offered by our alumni David as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
** NOTE THAT GARY'S SESSIONS ARE HELD IN HIS OWN ZOOM ROOM - FULL DETAILS BELOW ** This session — hosted from 17:00 to 18:00 Eastern Time every Tuesday — provides an opportunity for participants in A Path Through Tumultuous Times to enjoy some live interaction! Gary's sessions are focused on what meaningful lives look like […]
This session is offered by our alumni David Baum as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
This session is offered by our alumni Wendy (or her friends) as part of the Collapse Club she created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.
An hour before our monthly StF gatherings, StF alum Micah holds a gentle, friendly meditation session for those who wish to attend. This concludes half an hour before the gathering, which most participants then attend. You're welcome to join either one without attending the other, of course! Held in our 24/7 Zoom room.
On the first Friday of each month StF course participants past and present gather on Zoom to connect, share and discuss both the state of the world and our respective paths through it. As a participant on A Path Through Tumultuous Times you are more than welcome to join these monthly events, which usually attract […]
This session is offered by our alumni David as part of the Collapse Club he created with three others. Head to that link for full info and to register.