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SESSION ONE
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Session TitleInspired by the calling for:Session DescriptionHostRecording Link
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1wordless improvisational dancedanceThis dance is based on Contact Improv (CI). In CI, your first partner is the floor. The wall, and anything, can be your partner. There is also human connection, which is usually without words, and can be without touch, from great distance. Start solo, and be open. When not dancing, still be in the dance.Don Andress
don.andress7@gmail.com		Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/iUIWqJWaEzmmtsXwrM9cy2gfIaye_VBtMHFpzl8oFSqPC85JDtdlJ9YnFstwmhRn.fA_dyJj3zWNUxZMH (Password: 2KK.6.DM) Since this was a wordless dance, these were the instructions from Don in the chat at the beginning: impure wordless improvisational dance

This dance is based on Contract Improv (CI). In CI, your first partner is the floor. The wall, and anything, can be your partner. There is also human connection, which is usually without words, and can be without touch, from great distance. Start solo, and be open. Offer yourself to the dance. Be influenced while being true to yourself. Influence without attachment.

CI is done without music, mostly, or with music. I am not providing music. If you brought a musical instrument to contribute to this dance, know that music does not lead the dance, music interacts with the dance. You are welcome to write or draw this experience in your journal while in the dance or on your own time.

Though this time named wordless, in keeping with the spirit of CI speak if necessary. When not dancing, still be in the dance.
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2how do we grieve well?grief and lossGrief is a fugitive, on the run from the judgment of the court of modern public opinion. This fugitive has eluded the grasp of comprehension and compassion of many individuals who were raised on the terrifying tales about its devastating crimes. Yet grief is a fugitive who yearns to be known and better understood. Grief is a saintly servant of the people and yet through slander has become widely known as a ruthless villain.

How can we change our relationship with grief? How can we come to know and understand the experience of loss and the process of grief? How can we live with them and heal from them? How do we grieve well?

Jessica Campain is a mental health counselor with experience volunteering with a local hospice, running grief groups for children who have lost a loved one, and teaching mindfulness courses. She is also grieving the sudden loss of her father a little over a year ago.

If you feel called to join, all of you is welcome. Come with heaviness, trickster energy, ancestral guidance, questions, answers, unknowing, silence, and more. We will host a sanctuary space of reviewing the grief process as far as modernity understands it and then turn toward our inner knowing and understanding of the fugitive called Grief. Let us also listen to what it wants to tell us through this gathering.		Jessica Campain
zastrugah@gmail.com
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3A Dance in BrotherhoodDancing BrotherhoodInviting male-experiencing* folks within the network to come together in a space of intimacy and vulnerability as we grieve our conditioning as men and imagine together what brotherhood could look like liberated from patriarchy, toxic masculinity, racism, and homophobia. What does fugitively look like in this affinity space? What do we long for in how we intimately connect?

*offered as an affinity space to those who identify as male, those who don’t identify with the masculine experience but who were socialized as boys, and non-binary and GNC folks interested in discussing their journey with the masculine		Ophir Haberer
ophirhaberer@gmail.com
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4food practice as post activismPost Activist: How to bring it to communities? // Food magic // The world is alive. Now what?From a 900 years tradition coming from zen lineage (Shojin ryori) I propose to share what are the general principal of this practice (related to the requests of ancestors, embodiemnt of all life and food rituals) and why it is a post activism in the space of contemplative activism.
then to share how can it be adapted to intentional communities through daily collective practices .
The session will present the general principals of zen food practices ( Shojin ryori) and the post activist ones that I named tenzo 2.0 ( tenzo being the cook in zen communities ).		Valerie Duvauchelle
valerie.duvauchelle@gmail.com		Blog about session from Valerie: https://www.lacuisinedelabienveillance.org/post/the-practice-of-food-as-post-activism
Recording: https://youtu.be/otccJh-W4Gs
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5Ancestor TongueRebuilding BabylonShaking bell & rattle - invoking inviting speaking in tongues - Nature Spirits, Little People, Kontomble talk -parts of the language will be interrupted through English!Reda Rackley
redarack@sbcglobal.net		Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygebwmr3kxfs790/Ancestortongue_0.mp4?dl=0
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6Building Trust in our Intuitive KnowingDeep ListeningDori Baker and I would like to co host a sharing circle to explore the various ways we can build trust in our intuitive ability to 'listen'...how we hear and understand what our ancestors, our dreams, our knowings, etc are communicating to us. This is a space that welcomes in new learning and practices through communal sharing. This is intended to be an intimate conversation for a small-ish number of people.Julie Johnson
julieajohnson@rogers.com		See this post on MN for the word cloud of the notes and the collective poem created in this session: https://we-will-dance-with-mountains.mn.co/posts/10167489 Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/117JZdx9KpgiGym8-i_BuESEVtsMEgCLQvafDNyvMCYQ/edit
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7Doubter, Outsiderdoubt/ cynicismWhat us the story of unbelonging in your life?

Does doubting immerse you in "good trouble" or keep you trapped on the outskirts? Together we'll make time for self-reflection and conversation about the aspects of ourselves that pull away, eye things cynically, skeptically, and crave something more.		Alison Coluccio
alisoncoluccio@gmail.com		A note from Alison: Dear kinfolk, I sat hard with the decision about whether or not to record our session for you. Your inclusion was huge on my mind and in my heart, as it still is. I felt strongly that because I wasn't making a presentation, but rather offering a space for those who felt they didn't belong in some way or had some doubts they needed to explore, that recording would not allow us to create that space. After a short introduction, our group went into private breakout rooms, so I do not even know what happened in there, among those who shared in those spaces. I hope and trust it was as it needed to be. If any of you are interested in reconvening and exploring these topics, contact me and we can try to zoom-gather again. You are important to us and part of what makes this course whole. Thank you, Alison
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8Imagining Futures-Rethinking the PresentImagining Futures“Unless the lion learns how to speak, the hunting story will always glorify the hunter” As our history is curated by colonialism and victorious narratives, so are our futures. Through a capability called Futures Literacy we do not teach the lion how to speak, but instead we aim to change the story itself. Through rigorous imagination … of probable futures, desirable futures, absurd futures. Why? So we can identify our assumptions and deconstruct and rebuild the story altogether. We can decolonize the futures that are presented to us, and start the ones that are meant to be for all.Loes Darnhof
loesdamhof@gmail.com		Recording: https://we.tl/t-HBik34it5e Chat with all the futures: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13_KTijqncrKlnwQVU_ygkyTwUMwE2_Jl/view?usp=sharing
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9Voices of the Cracks: An Inquiry and Meditation to the Sounds around UsTower of Babble; Listening to wounds speak; Sound, Movement, Silence--Sensing the Collective FieldWhat's the voice of the cracks? In this session, we will take turns to inquiry, listen to the cracks, and introduce the voices you discover.

You may tap with a folk, poke with your fingers, ring a bell, turn on the faucet, knock on the cabinet, howl, walk in the snow, play a note on your keyboard, and use your body and the extensions of the body to have a dialogue with whatever you are curious to hear from.

You may also join the session to simply close your eyes and listen to and meditation with the sounds that are offered by the participants.		Kuan Luo
kuan.luo.11@gmail.com		https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u-MzdmFPZpaTfWvKapiDD0OJGnt6cWX3?usp=sharing
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10Fugitives from the Light: an unravelling storySomatic Co-Learning / StorytellingIn dark times, the eye beings to see. An open session to weave a story together facilitated by kinship group 29. We've been collectively writing this story, and we would like to offer it as a starting point for this cooperative singular fabulation. Is it possible to change it?Sofia Batalha
sofiabatalha@me.com		Download: https://we.tl/t-DWHuntz0mH
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11Ancestral Healing and Medicine for the DisconnectedAncestral Healing and MedicineThis is a community circle for sharing ways we do and can engage with ancestral healing and medicine. No ancestral healing memories required. There will be a short guided meditation, then we will share resources of how to connect, remember and discover healing and medicine regardless of how far you are from the land where your ancestors are buried.Bee Uytiepo
bee@healingisgiving.com		Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/AtW2v8HNJYyaIn50nc2YbMnZN3cN4djEnyfFVBKaDM5NLZ4PUvq1Ol-U9qyJj7oR.yHvJXtNqF1HCgAdW (Passcode: g.%d1#4V)

Prompts: https://padlet.com/beeuytiepo/m2r7h2xafn3e68r7
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12Intro to Western Contemplative PracticeHow to prayThrough this very brief intro to Centering Prayer, Welcoming Prayer and Lectio Divina, we will explore the rich and ancient, yet almost forgotten contemplative tradition of Western monastics, and how they've been adapted in recent decades for lay people and non-religious.David Nunez
daviddontdance@yahoo.com		Recording: https://youtu.be/l88zEP3Dqh8
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13Kahlay. MemoryListening to our animal. Bodies speakSeries of physical-energetic disciplines based on Toltec Mayan tradition. Anima as a doorIliana Romero
ilianaro2002@yahoo.com.mx		Audio only: https://media2-production.mightynetworks.com/asset/17242531/audio_only_1.m4a
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SESSION TWO
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Session TitleInspired by the calling for:Session DescriptionHostZoom Link
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1Nature HealingNature Healing or Plant wisdomHow do we learn with and from the natural world- now in this moment. I want to share what I have experienced working with the land and listening to elders and strangers from my block. I am currently in Boriken (Puerto Rico) I will take you on a walk.Gabriela Serra
gabrielaserra8@gmail.com
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2The Wordless WebRebuilding Babylon/Tower of Babble/ImprovWe will dance the mountain, we will sing the river. And we will do so without the English language.

This course has been a tremendous adventure but relies so much on this one dominant language. What if it was forbidden? This workshop will prompt expression, sound, movement, drawing, music and speech without English. We ask attendees to bring an openness to expression. A tapdance can be answered by a charcoal drawing. We only ask attendees to bring with them a way to communicate. Suggestions include: the participant's voice, musical instruments, art materials, plants, non-English languages, invented languages, signs, or anything you feel you can communicate with!		Shay Nichols & Shane
shay2323@hotmail.com		While this session was not recorded, Shay sent this follow-up note: email me if you want and we'll do another session - shay2323@hotmail.com
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3Intersections of Black Femme Sci-fi Writers, Abolition, Emergent Strategy, & "Making Sanctuary"Transformative JusticeOctavia E. Butler, NM Jemison, adrienne maree brown, Alexis P. Gumbs, and other writers of sci-fi and speculative fiction create possible worlds that stem from our rifts and ruptures. What might happen if we chose *not* to shift our current conditions? Imagine what *is possible* if we are intentional and visionary so as to shift our current conditions? How to we plant seeds now to create the change we want to see? Are you a Butler/Jemison sci-fi nerd? Are you an emergent strategist? Are you a seeker and practitioner of decolonized justice? Want to play, brainstorm, root ourselves among the stars?Kim Jordan
kim.jordan427@gmail.com		Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/p-tz24WeHY2J-4QfWXSB5RP_xtXH8N7YLvt-iEpktSoo49yS_63zGUCBR5GmNy2V.WMhGpy1voF_WpfjM?startTime=1607272482000 (Password: pf6Lg@x3) Shared Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E6ICi5HlER5PgguZ56gks7lMXIwK0Hm-4qThsTDI_3E/edit?usp=sharing
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4Weaving within an entangled living worldFiber Arts and Weaving SanctuaryDo you feel drawn to the rhythm of the weave, the whorl of the spindle, the somatic meditation of threads becoming assemblages of cloth and cozy hats, dancing with their hook and needle and hand friends in colourful, tactile emergence? Do you hear the whisper of your ancestors when you pick up your work and hold the threads close to your center? This session is for you! I am a novice wild fiber forager, drop spindle yarn spinner, (so far 1) basket and dream weaver, crochet addict who would love to hang out and weave together!Stephanie Cottell
stephanie.cottell@gmail.com		Recording: https://youtu.be/zXtF8wd0D1I "Signal" back to community: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iXfgNNGsO0_g0Zmbjx4k3nJ5eLtzIVWv/view?usp=sharing
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5Charting the Ephemeral: Aural Cartography & Deep ListeningListening, MapsWe will discuss the listening as a practice, an ongoing process that informs our ever-changing map of ourselves and our environments. What is ocularcentrism? What is acoustic ecology?

Through exercises and map-making, we will engage with techniques and skills in deep listening to learn how to attune to place and the body. We will grow arms from our ears that grab and hold the sounds. We will learn the space between what comes and what goes, and the space between our stories and the stories of our more-than-human kin. We will learn to understand listening as an active and unfolding process, and as instrument of creatively coming into presence.		Jose Rivera
joserivera@proxemiasound.net		No recording of these session but here is a link to the Charting the Ephemeral presenation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GOsGDVncjfdA40Bp8wvoTVs9RdwMR9DG/view?usp=sharing
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6A council of Chronic IllnessLiving with, understanding, opening to the invitation of Chronic Illness*This session is only for people with chronic illness/pain.*
Not everybody is able bodied. Some of us have felt exclusion and isolation in the world and also in the course. We know that we are not the only ones with chronic illness. Need to connect with people who have their own experiences with the pains of chronic illness.

We will form a counsel and share stories. There are no observers in this space. We hope that everyone brings themselves and their stories to share of their navigations and journeys into illness and pain.

Forty-five minutes is a short time. We hope we create an intimate space for people of various cultures, nations, and classes in the context of the Dance with the Mountains.		Owolabi William Copeland
williamwholenote@gmail.com
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7Trauma as Ecological: Moving Narratives of TransformationTrauma as EcologicalWhat if trauma is ecologically necessary? What if collective "social ills" such as colonization and industrialization are ecological forces, and in that way have an ecological function in the evolution of the Earth community? What if the impact of such social ills is as much an ecological trauma as tectonic plates slipping or a meteor crashing down upon the body of the Earth, irrevocably changing the shape through its impact? What if humans are expressing some "thing" of Earth's movements? And if so, how has and is the more-than-human community participating? How does trauma dislodge narratives of certainty, and create emergent changes necessary for our evolution and development? Is this too monstrous to even consider, and what might such a consideration mean for other conversations today, such as conversations on ‘healing’ (human and ‘more-than-human’) or ‘fixing’ climate change? Does healing as "fixing" create a fixity of shape? And if so, does trauma behave as an agent of fugitivity?

Tempist (Amanda Fiorino) and Poem (Wendy Robertson Fyfe) are exploring/offering this particular monstrosity in the session through body movement. The aim is to wonder further about and offer expansion to ‘trauma’ as singularly human-centred and 'bad'.		Wendy Roberts Fyfe and Amanda Fiorino
info@wendyrobertsonfyfe.co.uk
amanda@wildearthmedicine.com		Recording coming soon. Unable to upload due to bad weather.
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8animism as/is activismanimism as activismwe will practice two embodied approaches towards re-membering our place in the family of things, cultivating/feeling into our cellular entanglement with what surrounds, supports, moves through, receives us (both seen and unseen). We will orient the group to this play as fundamentally activist practice, a way of de-centering the human and re-turning to a porous, lively state of loving and belonging, a state rooted in mutual empowerment (power with). As facilitators we want to lay bare how we have arrived/continually arrive in our animist practices (one of us via dance/performance/somatics, the other engaging with a practice of Ifa over the last few years) as white people raised in cultures of pathological individualism, cognitive privileging, and domination, and invite participants to also reflect with us/one another. Co-facilitators John Johanson and Hana van der Kolk are friends, neighbors, and con-conspirators in making otherwise worlds.Hana van der Kolk
hjvanderkolk@gmail.com		Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdsc3emMBzFZTBscCJqPpztpB8Y4QP67/view?usp=sharing
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9Relative ElderhoodIntergenerational relationshipsI'm responding to Molly's quest for understanding how to be elder in a world where younger can feel distant. I don't have answers - because I don't believe that there are any - but I have the questions, some of the questions, and some insights. I offer space for exploring the cracks which divide generations, for jumping into them in a brief act of fugitive exploration into how we can creatively mingle. Elders and Youngers of any age welcome!Kate Napier
knapier@mac.com		Recording Part I: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X905yxODyUTBl4BdJmUBIHwpMBMvo_qM/view?usp=sharing Recording Part II: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QUoyQbFQMIj5aL9vZkvWg1AhIK2bi7Vs/view?usp=sharing
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10Museum of death and sicknessSickness/ Death/ Passion/ LivelihoodMuseum of death and sickness is an interactive journey into our experiences with death and sickness, both as a culture and as individuals. There are spaces inside the museum to educate ourselves and prepare for all of our inevitable ends and to share in a collective grieving experience. To make peace with our closeness to pain.Brooke Wetzel
brooklynkwetzel@gmail.com
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11Being a Story-carrierStorytellingJoin me by the virtual hearth-fire to hear an old myth or folktale. Together we will welcome in a story and let it live in the virtual space. At the tales end we will feed the story, and have a discussion of some of the tricks of the trade of being with the old stories, getting claimed by tales, and the mythic-imagination.Chaise Levy
chaiselevy@gmail.com		Download: https://media2-production.mightynetworks.com/asset/17075046/playback.m3u
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12Alien DanceMonster DanceWelcoming all Alien and Monster Movers, Artists and Shapeshifters to draw, dance, contort, and most importantly have fun! We’re curious to see what wants to emerge when we invite our edges to play in a creative platform without words. You are welcome to just draw and be with the music, if you don’t want to dance, music is inspired by the theme. Dress up, come as you are, or maybe your Alien is created through movement or inspired by connecting with other strange beings in little Zoom boxes.
Artwork exchange of works made during the session is encouraged! Photos of artworks will be collected and shared.		Kristen Mitchell - kristen@kristenmitchellart.com & Annamarie Bayley - annamarie_bayley@yahoo.co.ukCurated video: https://youtu.be/9WO7vvwosUU Folder with raw recording and screenshots: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZdHMsSC_2aNM5eM_gB-IbxMl730vrkrr?usp=sharing
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13Ancestral healingAncestral healingWho are the dead to us? Who are we to them?

This session will offer an introduction to ancestral reconnection. Although within a loose ritual container, they session will consist of a brief talk, discussion and opportunity for sharing.		Alex Ioannou
aioannou82@gmail.com
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