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WRITING AS A TOOL FOR HEALING AND CHANGE

This course approaches creative writing as an art that is always in relationship to how we understand ourselves and our experiences. Writing offers us a way to reshape cultural narratives that aren’t working for us, and to remake ourselves as many times as we like. In response to information overload and stacked responsibilities, we will experiment with creative practice as a way of situating ourselves in an experience of power and resilience, rather than overwhelm. This course will offer meditations and writing tools to engage healing processes that are internal, self-reliant, and play with the dance between creativity and life. While production is not the goal here, most students discover new forms, avenues, and ways of being with craft. All writing levels and experiences welcome. Sliding scale pricing available.

EARTH CONSENT provides students with tools to repair their relationships with the more-than-human world and recover the level of intimacy with Earth that our ancient ancestors knew. Students engage ancestral repair work; learn to weave their ancestry healthfully with the ancestry of the place where they reside; and be supported in learning skills that enable easeful communication with trees, water bodies, and other elemental beings. Experience with ritual work is not a prerequisite, but spiritual humility and openness of heart and mind are necessary. This course is for those who are ready to commit to the cohort of individuals in the class for the duration of our time together. This course is alternately offered in person in the Bay Area and over zoom. There are several informal and optional study hall sessions over the duration of the course, and plenty of additional support between classes.

ECOPOETIC EMBODIMENT is a course and meaning-making circle for artists, writers, dancers, scholars, scientists, policy writers, and researchers of all kinds, providing a radical approach to inquiry. Ecopoetic Embodiment is a 7-week hybrid course for creatives and intellectuals of all kinds to learn and engage Earth-based research practices with considerable support. Regardless of their field or medium, participants receive functional tools that enables them to create in congruence and conversation with Earth systems while developing unshakable personal resilience and the skills to lead the growth of community-engaged power. Our learning is both individual and group-based, and process will include meditations, sounding and somatic exercises, and specific land and elemental-listening tools and methodologies. Coursework takes place via zoom and in person at sites in the San Francisco Bay Area for field work. Disability and access needs of the specific individuals who register for this course are integrated into site planning. Locations and guest lecturers TBA.

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More About: Earth Consent
More About: Ecopoetic Embodiment

More About Earth Consent

All change that occurs in our external environments is incepted from within.

In our colonial and (attempts at) post-colonial discourse, it is common for us to arrive at a point in our path in which we come to identify as conscious beings (spiritually, politically, socially). In doing so, we are susceptible to over-identifying with our values, such that we inhibit or block difficult internal examinations required to create the real change that we seek.

Even if we care about consent, we are still capable of crossing one another’s boundaries. This is because most of us were raised in a paradigm based on behavioral systems that do not honor consent. But collective change happens in the physical world when we examine and reprogram our individual-relational landscapes on a subconscious and internal level.

Beyond gender, race-based, and other human-human relational dynamics in which questions of consent are implicated, it is easy for most to disregard that land and elementals can give or boundary consent because we have not been taught that land has personhood and that her boundaries exist. We have not been taught to read personhood in land, discern distinctions of personhood coexisting within a single site, or hear more-than-human voices. Our modern world is loud with external stimulus; even when we remember and believe in the personhood of land, it is the default setting of most people to not engage with Her. It requires acuity, devotion, and practice to accurately hear the voices of the elementals and subtle realms.

The default of the colonial gaze is to objectify—not only womxn and femme people, but also plants and more-than-human kin. People of all genders and racial identities have the capacity to cross these boundaries without awareness. When we mend our relationship to Earth as individuals, and learn to practice mutual relational care with the place where we live, our understanding of what consent means in human relationships is altered and improved too. True consent work between humans is not dependent on human language—though it is a valuable tool, and a vital component of process. When a practitioner develops a durationally-cultivated attunement to the subtle body and field with the Earth, the whole field and the avenues of communication with other humans also changes. This takes time.

Regardless of our positionally and identity, it is our responsibility to recreate our internal landscapes toward a different future. In Earth Consent, the group receives elemental transmissions in support of consent awareness, engages site-specific assignments where they live, and makes offerings of care to the land and/or to specific communities. This work requires commitment and will elevate all your relationships—human, animal, plant, and beyond—if you engage it. It will also bring superpowers you did not know you had online.

Earth Consent is alternately offered over zoom and in person for San Francisco Bay Area locals. The intro session, Earth Consent Fundamentals, will be available in video format for purchase soon. Check back here for more information or sign up for the mailing list to learn more.

More About Ecopoetic Embodiment

Ecopoetics is the creative project of examining the human relationship to ecology and the earth through poetic inquiry. This course investigates colonial and sociological imprints in public spaces and environments of encounter. We will look at a variety of shared intersections where the self meets ‘the other,’ including in contexts where the other is a more-than-human being (plants, animals, trees, elements, otherworld beings, ancestors, etc.). We will learn to discern the different types of energetic imprints of all of these beings, towards the embodiment of higher levels of agency in our relationships and scholarship. We will experiment with writing and movement research that offers opportunities to play with embodied or felt qualities of interconnectivity, emotional resilience, and trust. We will play with language alchemy, which is a healing tool that has the potential to help us recast how we think, write, and speak towards expanded and elevated expressions of care for local ecologies. Throughout this course, we will consider ancestry from multiple perspectives: artistic, literary, cultural, blood/familial, tribal/ethnic, and cosmic. 

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