人生を変えるカリフォルニアツアー、完全ギフトエコロジー 参加申し込み中間報告
Riko HIRATA
海くん、エリさんの不安や心配が聞こえてきたので、途中経過ですが報告します。
今、企画してくれている二人とその周りの方々の想いを心の耳で聞いて、咀嚼中。
そしt、自分が、どう参加の意思、パッシォンを持ってるかも自問自答し、整理してます。
自分が貢献できそうな事もじっくり考えています。
その様子はこんな感じ。ＮＶＣの力を借りて、みんなが(自分を含め)が大切にしたいことに心を傾けながら、考えています。
理子
Riko HIRATA
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Eri Suzuki
お友達へのお声がけ、どうもありがとう。実践企画段階から少しずつ波紋が広がっている感じがすごく嬉しいです。
****************** Project Announcement *****************************
TUP 2015 Bay Area Urban Permaculture Gift Ecology experiment
2015/5/31~2015/6/10
San Francisco, Santa Cruz, East Bay
In this project we are offering an experiential tour showcasing Bay Area’s leading models of urban permaculture, agroecology and concrete examples of life in the gift ecology.
Here is the story behind this crazy project.
It all started from the conversation between Kai Saywer (Tokyo Urban Permaculture) and his brothers, Pancho and Sam at Casa de Paz (Fruitvale). Pancho and Sam are incredible giftivists (gift activists) who are doing (r)Evolutionary works in Oakland, CA. Kai went to their house to ask if we can show their place and their experiment at Casa de Paz as a model for gift economy. They told Kai that what they are trying to embody is not mealy a gift economy but is to live in the ecosystem of abundance based on mutually supporting human relationship that does not rely on money. They call it gift ecology. We were hoping to introduce their philosophy as a model but they encouraged us to see this as an opportunity to practice gift ecology ourselves.
Kai got really inspired by this conversation and brought this idea to Eri. After multiple discussions and self questioning, we have decided to do the tour with gift ecology principles. We are thrilled at our adventure ahead and also quite nervous not knowing how this will turn out. Originally, our conventional thinking lead us to offer a tour for $1500 per person aside from the flight cost to cover the cost of rental car, lodging, tour fee for guides, Kai’s flight and coordinating fee for both of us. We had a practical concern for how to pay for the car rental, lodging, flight, and our rent, so then we thought of having a fee to cover just the basics (rentals, lodging) and our time and efforts as a gift. But that complicated matters in us when we started talking about to what extent we include to be the fee. Since we are aiming for a shift in consciousness, it seemed like mixing conventional economics and gift ecology wouldn’t manifest the highest potential of this project. In the end, we told ourselves “let’s just make it all a gift and see what happens!” We believe in the power of the relationship that gifts generates and we wanted to have participants feel what it is all about not just by learning conceptually but to experience it. Being the change we wish to see in the world!
It is our invitation to the world to experience what soulful giving bring to us. We want to share how relationship can be cultivated when money is not the bottom-line of exchange and giving. Besides, we cannot put a price tag on people we think are super inspiring urban permaculturists and places that we think are incredible. We wanted participants to see the value and decide the value themselves.
We also shifted how we chose participants from first-come-first-serve basis to more involved selection process. It takes more time and effort in our part but we wanted to know more about who they are.
What’s amazing is that once we decided to make this tour into a gift, we already started to receive gifts. Pancho and Sam gifted us with housing and food for three days and our new friend Ayako invited us to her house for three days in East Bay.
We want to pay forward these gifts we are receiving to the participants as gifts.
Let’s make the “impossible”, possible.
Life is a gift, and nature provides us with abundance.
Each of us have so much to give.
We just have to circulate these gifts.
Love,
Kai and Eri
* To know more about giftivsm, please see below
About Pancho
http://www.dailygood.org/story/127/if-you-want-to-be-a-rebel-be-kind/
About Casa De Paz
http://www.awakin.org/local/oakland/
About Canticle Farm (Urban Permaculture Garden run by Casa de Paz)
http://www.awakin.org/local/oakland/
Nipun Mehta Super inspiring giftvist who has started Service space and Karma Kitchen
http://nipun.servicespace.org/about/
Kai Sawyer’s blog
livingpermaculture.blogspot.comRiko HIRATA
R Hirata
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