The Emergence Network

Does the notion of care sometimes arrive with the invisible structures of harm? I discovered that Steve Bannon drew his inspiration from George Soros in a Natalia Antaleva piece for Coda Story. It appears Bannon modelled Soros's cadre-based structure of philanthropy and attempted to replicate it. Which reminded me that the grassroots building of right-wing politics in India was also modelled on the missionary structure -- get to all aspects of the village social life, start young by setting up schools and change textbooks to reflect ideology, have large faith gatherings, teach natural farming practice to farmers, support women and elderly. Reach out to adivasis and shape their faith practices. Be there in crisis. Decades of work. The social "dividend" is converted to a political and economic dividend. In the Bayo Akomalafe's session "curapoetics" in the Becoming Monster festival of Emergence Network, he questions the existing understanding of Care. Care, he nudges, is not a pre-relational determinant. It is, instead, an emergent phenomena within a relationship held in integrity. He reflected on how harm co-exists with external assertions of care and that coloniality may continue through it, re-imprisoning folks in new ways. He calls it plantation-care. In the movie "The Settlers" by Chilean director Felipe Galvez, mestiza Segundo recounts the horrors of deceit and violence perpetrated by the settlers on the indigenous population to a Chilean Government official who is there on a mission of Justice for the Natives. After the witnessing is over, Segundo and his wife Rosa are forced to attire in the "civilised" European clothes and drink tea for the camera. Rosa defies. The official insists, "Don't you want to be part of the nation?" Cancel culture is another version of this, a way to monoculture what care should be. In a world that is more interested in how-to achieve pre-decided outcomes, of structures and boxes instead of processes, maybe the thrust ought not to be the nominalisation "Care," but our ability to deep attend with what Otto Scharmer calls "Open Mind Open Heart Open Will" that is important. Interested in your thoughts... 💭 #weaveourlightstogether #thelightweavers #earthcoach #earthcentred #ecology #emergence

This was such an experience, a cracking open, a learning and inspirations for new explorations and practices. Some lessons and questions I took away from being part of the organizing team: - I experience the power of intentionally making space for collective grief, to be witnessed and to witness others, without needing to fix or advice. Some are shared grief, some are personal. And to be together in navigating that feels like what we need in these days. It was grounding & cleansing. - Grief and joy are intertwined. The poet Khalil Gibran wrote “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” It is human to hold both, to pendulate between. And to support each other as we do, and to create something together, that Yoruba concept of Ìfowósowópò- the hands tying with hands (taught to us by Omi Jones), makes beauty out of it all.   - Leaning on community can be scary, but it's wonderful to see that the skills and commitment needed to do the work. - What if we acknowledge and understand the shadows of ourselves, and those of our society's, instead of ignoring or hiding from them? - There's so much that goes into creating creative, vulnerable, playful, artistic experiences through Zoom. But it's possible! Thank you Aerin Dunford pooja kishinani Krista Dragomer Clare Szalay Timbo, the rest of the curatorial team, the care team and volunteers for trusting me to join y'all in this journey!

Over 800 of you joined us from around the planet, nourishing this ecology of spaces with your presence, longings, and monstrosities. Deep gratitude for accompanying us on this messy, liminal, non-linear journey; for playing, mourning, and shapeshifting with us; for resourcing our collective capacity to re-intuit and re-imagine new ways of being and relating. What a gift to be able to practice together. Becoming Monster was ten's first seasonal festival and we dream of curating more events, postactivist experiments, translocal explorations, and new ways of gathering face-to-face and online. Sign up for our quarterly newsletter, The Loom, to receive updates about the various portals to entangle and engage in postactivist practice with us: https://lnkd.in/gjzHKYuM

The Indus River Basin is undergoing a post-growth renaissance. Ecoist is an Eco Regeneration activist organization running an effective BCC (behavioral change campaign) to shift mass behavior and reintroduce regenerative practices into communities along the Indus River Valley in Pakistan. Explore their bold, harmonious initiatives including Eternal Forests, vermicomposting farms, Re’Crater permaculture, and more! Led by Basham Zain, Ecoist welcomes you to join the movement of spiritual and ecological revival: https://ecoist.eco/ Ecoversities, SusPoT - Center for Sustainability #ecology #indus #river #basin #valley #vermicompost #regeneration #ecoist #culture #behavior #postgrowth #conscious #conservation #reconnect #relearn #react #transition #pakistan #community #farm #water #permaculture #forest #carbon #climate #biodiversity #action #postgrowthalliance

Tomorrow a portal opens... an invitation to explore an ecology of spaces: to feel, to share, to experiment, and practice opening ourselves to the unknown, the unthinkable, the unsayable. It's likely to be weird and experimental. Are you in? The Monsters Circle organized by One Resilient Earth is part of the #Becoming #Monster festival, organized by The Emergence Network. The festival is not to identify or name monsters, nor to redraw hard lines around the right and the good. It is an exploration into a different materiality of grief and care in a time of loss, a celebration of our failures to become, an invitation to reimagine, re-feel and re-intuit what else it might mean to be human beyond the carceral narratives of white modernity. The #Monsters #Circle is a courageous, vulnerable and warm space to share all the emotions that we feel as we see ourselves transforming and shape-shifting, either voluntarily or involuntarily, to live in a world of #climate #instability. We will explore the emotions of becoming monsters, or feeling monstrous, in the sense that we cannot quite grasp who and what we are (un)becoming in real time. We will welcome all #emotions, and will encourage participating monsters or monsters-in-the-making to share their emotions through any media: spoken word, performance, visual or multimedia arts… In-Person with Laureline Simon in Berlin https://lnkd.in/g-P7k3H2 Virtual Circle with Sophia Bazile and Laureline Simon on November 1st Painting credits: Krista Dragomer for the emergence network (ten)

Five days left to register for becoming MONSTER! Registration closes on Monday, 28th October. Come practice with us! https://lnkd.in/g2MNRdtP

This time of year is always so enriching... and particularly this autumn I'm excited to be leading a session with Camille Courier de Mèré at the the Becoming Monster Festival by The Emergence Network Our online visual arts practice "Becoming multiple: exploring new relationalities through drawing and on-skin scultpture" is in two parts: Prep session: Thursday Oct 31st 11:30-12:00 EDT/15:30-16:00 UTC Arts practice: Saturday Nov 2nd 11:30-13:00 EDT/15:30-17:00 UTC We're offering an interactive session involving drawing and on-skin sculpture, inviting people to experience the potentialities of becoming-amphibian, becoming-plastic, becoming-multiple, becoming-immobile-exiles, becoming-ruins… Learn more and sign up (places are limited) on the Becoming Monster webpage (links in the comments below)

Bayo Akomolafe has questions about care. And how it emerges. That’s it. He is trying to be brief these days. Join us for becoming MONSTER, taking place October 30th - November 3rd. 🔗 Explore the altar of offerings for the festival and register here: https://lnkd.in/g-GeCHkz Artwork and becoming MONSTER Artistic direction by Krista Dragomer , Vunja! Artist-in-Residence

Join our #Monsters #Circle in Berlin, at tak Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg, on Wedneday 30 October from 7 to 9pm. The Monsters Circle organized by One Resilient Earth is part of the #Becoming #Monster festival, organized by The Emergence Network. The festival is an ecology of spaces to feel, share, experiment and practice opening ourselves to the unknown, the unthinkable and unsayable. The aim of the festival is not to identify or name monsters, nor to redraw hard lines around the right and the good. It is an exploration into a different materiality of grief and care in a time of loss, a celebration of our failures to become, an invitation to reimagine, re-feel and re-intuit what else it might mean to be human beyond the carceral narratives of white modernity. The #Monsters #Circle is a courageous, vulnerable and warm space to share all the emotions that we feel as we see ourselves transforming and shape-shifting, either voluntarily or unvoluntarily, to live in a world of #climate #instability. We will explore the emotions of becoming monsters, or feeling monstruous, in the sense that we cannot quite grasp who and what we are becoming in real time. We will welcome all #emotions, and will encourage participating monsters or monsters-in-the-making to share their emotions through any media: spoken word, performance, visual or multimedia arts… It's likely to be weird and experimental. Are you in? https://lnkd.in/eE38GpS3