[Oe List ...] Fw: SO FAR, 17 people have responded with interest in studying CHOOSING EARTH over the next couple of months. WE ARE MEETING MONDAY, MAY 17 AT 8 PM CHICAGO TIME TO GET ORGANIZED. JOIN US.

Sun May 16 20:38:06 PDT 2021

Jim please add Paul Noah and Beret Griffith to list for Monday.

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 8:48 PM James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

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> 1.  Interested so far:  Richard Alton, Joyce Bonafield, Milan Hamilton,
> Ellen Howie, Larry Philbrook, Evelyn Philbrook, Lewis Pierce, Martin
> Rafanan, David Rebstock, Janet Sanders, Carleton Stock, Ellie Stock, Nancy
> Trask, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby, Edwin Waters, Jean Watts, Jim Wiegel
>
> For the rest of you, send us an email to JOIN US IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
> We will only send future notices to those who are interested.
>
> 2.  Monday, May 17 we will get organized for this.  Here is the Zoom link
> David Rebstock is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
>
> Topic: My Meeting
> Time: May 17, 2021 08:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
>
> Join Zoom Meeting
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86431860640?pwd=RnhjRmNTSDE0U3B2ZzlhR25GYUo4Zz09
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> Meeting ID: 864 3186 0640
> Passcode: 214122
> (full link at bottom of this email)
>
> 3.  Currently we are anticipating 9 sessions, on Mondays, from May 24,
> starting at either 7:00 or 8:00 Chicago time and running for 90 minutes.
> We have been in touch with the folks at CHOOSING EARTH and they will let us
> use their study guide / curriculum if we choose.  Jim is going to
> participate in a facilitator training the next 2 Mondays to get more inside
> of their approach.
>
> 4.  Here are Proposed Study Group Sessions based on their outline:  does
> this make sense?
> Session 0:  Getting Organized including Our Aims and Approach, Getting
> Volunteer Leadership (Session Hosts, Small Group Leadership and Technical
> Producers) Guidelines for Participation, etc.
> Session 1: Introduction to Choosing Earth
> Recognizing our whole systems crisis and several stories of transition. .
> . .16
> Session 2: Three Pathways Ahead
> Collapse, Authoritarianism, and Great Transition. . . . . . . . . . . . .
> . . . . . . . 17
> Session 3: Stages of Great Transition I
> The Decades of the 20s, 30s, and 40s and the challenges ahead . . . . . .
> . . 19
> Session 4: Stages of Great Transition II
> The Decades of 50’s 60’s and 70’s and the timeline for a Great Transition
> . .19
> Session 5: Foundations for the Great Transition — Part I
> Aliveness, Waking Up, Growing Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> . . . . . . . . . . . 20
> Session 6: Foundations for the Great Transition — Part II
> Reconciling, Communicating, Community Building and Simplicity . . . . . .
> . . .21
> Session 7-8 — Optional: Integration
> What’s Been Learned? What’s Shifted? What’s Next for You? . . . . . . . .
> . . . .22
>
> 5.  Here is a rough outline for each session:  Does this make sense?
> o Welcoming people on arrival
> o Conducting (or designating another participant to conduct) a brief
> meditation for settling and connecting as a group
> o Using a check-in process to build group cohesion and shared understanding
> o Offering both large group and small group inquiries
> o Facilitating whole group discussions
> o Describing the reading and exercise assignments
> o Conducting (or designating another participant to conduct) a closing
> process for each session — this could be a prayer, a poem or a simple
> dedication, like “We dedicate our time together to the well-being of all
> life.”
>
> 6.  TECHNOLOGY  We are assuming to use David Rebstock's Zoom account.
> What else will we need?
>
> 7.  What is our PURPOSE?  A month or so ago, the Shankland's suggested
> some aims:
> *Rational Aim:* To stay current on the Climate Crisis and explore points
> of engagement for each participant    *Experiential Aim*: To have a great
> time in dialogue with colleagues and nudge each other to be effectively
> involved.
>
> This from the CHOOSING EARTH FOLKS:  "step into a deeper understanding of
> what is needed to move through the greatest transition humanity has ever
> made — and to rise to the opportunity of becoming a mature, planetary
> civilization. Recognizing both challenges and opportunities, our goal is to
> provide a study guide that supports you — both in terms of content and
> facilitation.
>
> and this CAVEAT (more on the existential side):  Choosing Earth explores
> profound changes, threats of collapse, and the real possibility of great
> suffering for humanity as a precursor to a collective transition. Facing
> profound change, deep uncertainty and the threat of collapsing civilization
> are unsettling and anxiety producing. This material can be distressing and
> evoke feelings of loss, grief, anger, anxiety, and hopelessness. Awakening
> to these feelings is vital if we are to mobilize our inner wisdom,
> imagination, and resilience and come to terms with climate disruption,
> social and racial injustice, economic inequities and more. Therefore, it is
> important for people to have a degree of maturity, self-awareness and
> resilience to engage with this material.
>
> 8.  MATERIALS:  You can download a free copy of the book on the CHOOSING
> EARTH website <https://choosingearth.org/>.  Ellen Howie got her
> librarian to make her a copy!
>
>
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> hate, all that.  Unknown is what is.  Accept that it's unknown, and it's
> plain sailing.    John Lennon
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> On Thursday, May 13, 2021, 08:16:28 PM MST, James Wiegel <
> jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> David Rebstock and I are quite interested in looking at this.  See what
> you think.  Check out the website.  We hope to find a number of you who are
> interested -- as participants, session organizers, small group leaders, and
> technical producers.  JOIN US next Monday at 8:00 pm Chicago time to get
> ourselves organized!!
>
>   Home - Choosing Earth <https://choosingearth.org/>
>
> Home - Choosing Earth
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> The goal of the Choosing Earth Project is to foster understanding of the
> magnitude, speed and depth of challenge...
> <https://choosingearth.org/>
>
> The book is available there as a downloadable pdf, or you can purchase it
> as an ebook at Amazon.  There is also a documentary video accessible and
> several other resources.  I have been in touch with the organizers and they
> have made available a 7 session outline and guide for studying the book.
>
> I am hopeful that this can open up a broader conversation, one that can
> include multiple generations.
>
> *Here is a 1 paragraph description that speaks.*
>
> *Choosing Earth *draws upon a lifetime of research by the author and
> looks a half-century into the future to explore how our world might evolve
> into a mature, planetary civilization that celebrates the miracle of life.
> Decade by decade, it describes stages of great transition that
> realistically could lie ahead. Where many see the single trend of growing
> climate disruption producing a catastrophic collapse, *Choosing Earth *sees
> a purposeful rite of passage for humanity where we move beyond our
> adolescent stage of development and into our early adulthood. With greater
> maturity, we can move from exploiting the Earth and each other to caring
> for all of life — and a sustainable and purposeful future can unfold.
>
> The next paragraph outlines the approach of the book.
>
> As further introduction, it is important to add that, to explore this
> great transition, Choosing Earth develops three perspectives often missing
> from the current discussion:
> 1. Look Wide: Look beyond single factors such as global warming and
> include a wide range of trends including climate disruption, social and
> economic inequities, resource depletion, species extinction, population
> growth, and much more.
> 2. Look Deep: Look beneath the outer trends such as climate change and
> species extinction to include the inner realities of evolving psychology,
> values, culture, consciousness, and paradigms.
> 3. Look Long: Look far into the future — much farther than the short run
> of the next five or ten years. Trends that are uncertain and ambiguous in
> the short run become much clearer when extrapolated to the longer run of
> the next 50 years.
> By looking wide, deep and long, Choosing Earth constructs a realistic
> story or scenario describing this great transition.
>
>
> FULL ZOOM LINK.
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> David Rebstock is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
>
> Topic: My Meeting
> Time: May 17, 2021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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