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I’ve updated the SHIFT: Feral Movement Art page in the sidebar to reflect the new schedule — Mondays at 1pm, Saturdays at Noon.

We’ve added another session of SHIFT!

Show up at Irvington park near the baseball fields at 1:00pm.

the Earth and Spirit Council

Presents

The Natural Way: Indigenous Voices

Native American Student and Community Center

SW Broadway and Jackson, Portland, Oregon

7:00 - 9:00 pm on Friday, May 11, 2007

Silvia Calisaya Chuquimia

Cultural and Healing Traditions of the Peruvian Aymara

Silvia Calisaya Chuquimia is a traditional Aymara healer descended from the pre-Inca people who inhabit the southern Lake Titicaca region. Born and raised in a small highland village, she left as a young woman to pursue her education and a professional life, and later returned to the traditional teachings of her people. She is an expert at the ancient art of reading coca leaves for divination and healing, and is the proprietor of the Coca Leaf Museum in Puno, Peru. Coca is a sacred plant for the inhabitants of the Andes, still held in veneration among the indigenous and mestizo peoples of South America.

“My mother was my first university; she was and still is a healer and midwife . . . I started learning many things, as well as the coca reading. I tried to seek about the origin of the coca leaves, and why people are still using them. Doing this, I found the life philosophy of the Aymaras still living in this part of the world.”

Silvia comes to share the philosophy, teachings, and traditions of the Aymara, as well as the history and ancient art of reading coca leaves. For information about a private healing with Silvia while she is in Portland, contact Lee Hay by e-mail at silviareading@comcast.net.

$10-20 donation requested for speaker’s honorarium

Co-sponsored by The College of Mythic Cartography

www.mythic-cartography.org

Earth & Spirit Council ~ contactus@earthandspirit.org

www.earthandspirit.org

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Sorry for the past few weeks…lots going on these Saturdays, apparently! We’ve got to move SHIFT to the next day, Sunday afternoon, just this week. Show up at Irvington park near the baseball fields at 2:30pm.

You’ll find SHIFT on or near the baseball field of Irvington Park, NE 7th and Fremont. 12pm, as usual. Gear up for rain!

Google map.

Years ago I ran across an online art installation, vision, and ongoing project of artist Michael Green.

If you haven’t seen his vision of the Afterculture, you’ve really missed out. The possibilities of the North American Afterculture await!

7 Generations and beyond… This Weekend!
Theme: Conspiring to become a network of earth-based cultures!

I want to invite you to the 7 Generations Open Space.

What is the 7G project? It’s a joint vision between Chee Siwash,
TrackersNW, City Repair and TLC Farm where we are learning and helping
people to learn what it means to look 7 generations into the past and
future– real sustainability of the land and the people.

So what is an OpenSpace?

Open Space is a way to convene people for a conference, retreat or meeting. Attendees are asked to generate the meeting agenda as well as participate by leading small group break-out sessions during the meeting time. There is usually a facilitator, but no official meeting leader who demands compliance. More about Open Space at the end of this e-mail.

I personally plan on taking my boats on the Willamette, and playing
hoop games and capture the flag, and talking about how my kids are one
day going to live and breathe in a beautiful world.

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Location: Under the Covered Picnic Benches on the South End of
Willamette Park (Westside yo, just North of Sellwood Bridge).

Time: THIS WEEKEND!!! April 7 (9-5p) and April 8 (9-5p), 2007
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Bring:
Food for Lunch (Potluck)
Notebook
Fun Things

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Tell me more about Open Space!

In Open Space, a facilitator explains the process and then participants are invited to co-create the agenda and host their own discussion groups. Discussions are held in designated areas or separate rooms known as ‘breakout spaces’ and participants are free to move amongst the discussion groups. Each group records the conversations in a form which can be used to distribute or broadcast the proceedings of the meeting. In a multi-day Open Space, participants have the opportunity to announce new discussion topics / late-breaking sessions each new morning. At the end of the day (or 2 days or 2.5 days) the full group reconvenes for comments and reflection. This helps participants to re-engage in the full group over the duration of the meeting.

While the mechanics of Open Space provide a simple means to self-organize, it is the underlying principles that make it effective both for meetings and as a guidepost for individual and collective effectiveness. The Law of Two Feet (also known as the Law of Mobility in settings where participants don’t necessarily have the use of both feet) — a foot of passion and a foot of responsibility — expresses the core idea of taking responsibility for what you love. In practical terms, the law says that if you’re neither contributing nor getting value where you are, use your two feet (or available form of mobility) and go somewhere where you can. It is also a reminder to stand up for your passion. From the law, flow four principles:

* Whoever comes is the right people
* Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
* Whenever it starts is the right time
* When it’s over, it’s over

The organizing theme of an Open Space meeting is that people who care about the subject will come together. The initial meeting notice takes the form of an invitation, thus the people who have attended have chosen to be there and are willing to contribute. The objectives for the meeting and the time available affect design decisions such as whether action planning is included in the Open Space or not.

Check out The Best of the College at the top of the sidebar for new archived materials on The Flesh, Animism and Family, Secular Puritanism, and much, much, more.

It looks like too much sunshine this weekend, and not enough rain. Bah humbug!

Seriously, you’ll find me holding space for the “7 Generations and Beyond: Conspiring to become a network of earth based cultures” Open Space gathering, on April 7th and 8th, sponsored by TrackersNW, Dancing Hawk, City Repair, and Tryon/Life Farm, along with many individual supporters.

Contact Tony for more info.