(We wanted to give folks a little more lead time, as the newsletter isn't coming out until friday)
Nurturing A Gift Economy: Resilient Living Gift Circle
Mon 5/14
6:30 pm to 9pm
The Sebastopol Grange Hall; (hwy 12 just outside of town on
left going towards Santa Rosa)
donations for space use-- pay what you can
We
are pleased to announce our next resilience event, which is a group for
creating our alternative economy and real ongoing mutual support for us in building
resilience and community abundance! This is a fully participatory group.
The “gift circle” is the core of the evening, with the intention to
include ways of creating a "Resilience Network" as we evolve. This means that this regular meeting
will be a place where we can offer what skills we have to share, what we are
doing to make ourselves more healthy and happy, emergency preparedness support,
gardening and food help, energy sourcing, music and art sharing, and heck, who
knows, maybe even barn raising!
This group will be what we make it.
This next circle invites you to come from 6:30 to 7:15 for the
"gift table"; food/treat sharing table and socializing. The gift table is a place to bring
something of yours that is useful or of value that you no longer need. We give
and receive from the table our items.
The food/treat sharing is for simple snacks or yummy treats and drinks.
If you don’t want to participate in that, feel free to just come to the gift
circle at 7:15
The first half hour of the evening's circle will begin with two 15min
presentations-- a space for two members of the group to
give a presentation, teaching or creative/experiential offering. If you would like to sign up to present; you can do so at the end
of the evening. This is another great way for folks to give their gifts!
Our first groups presentations will be given by your hosts:
Mary O’Conner:
“How to give a great presentation”
Julia Bystrova: “How giving our gifts nurtures an amazing
inner resiliency”
This is a no-waste event!
Bring your own napkins, plates, cutlery or extras for others
if you bring something that needs it. We will have tea, hot water and some
extra cups (but please bring yours as well).
We are doing this evening bi-monthly, trading mondays and
thursdays so that more can participate.