Name: Deep Ecology Workshop
Start: 2024-11-22T12:30:00+11:00
End: 2024-11-22T15:30:00+11:00
Location: Foreshore Park Newcastle

Are you coming to the People's Blockade of the World's Largest Coal Port from November 22-24? There's a massive line-up at this protestival, with so much to see and do. But maybe you would like some time out to be present with the crunchy emotions that brought you to the Blockade, which motivate you to stand up for climate justice? At this Deep Ecology workshop, we will be focusing on our interconnectedness and how our actions ripple out to change the world around us.
For more info about the Blockade, see https://www.risingtide.org.au/
WHAT: Deep Ecology Workshop for climate justice activists, and anyone who is interested in creating a life-sustaining society
WHEN: Friday 22 November 2024 12:30-3:30pm
WHERE: The Chat Shack marquee, The People's Blockade of the World's Largest Coal Port, Foreshore Park, Newcastle East
BRING: a water bottle, willingness to be present with your feelings
RSVP: email [email protected]
Deep Ecology- sometimes called “The Work that Reconnects”- is a set of practices developed by peace campaigner Joanna Macy and forest protector John Seed, among others. These practices help us to experience the world as alive and our selves as interconnected with other living beings and the web of life. Workshops follow a set sequence which provides safety:
>Resourcing us with connection and GRATITUDE;
>Helping us to experience and share with others our innermost responses to the present condition of our world, whilst being supported in community (HONOURING OUR PAIN/DESPAIR work);
>Reframing our pain for the world as evidence of our interconnectedness and our power to protect it (SEEING WITH NEW EYES);
>GOING FORTH with greater clarity and capacity for action.
Please attend on time and stay for the whole session. We will be holding space for a range of feelings, and we want everyone to be emotionally safe when they leave.
We acknowledge this event will take place on the lands of the Awabakal and Worimi People. We pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise their fight to prevent ecological destruction since colonisation (which continues today) and we join their continued resistance when we stand up for climate and ecological action and justice.
Image ID: An image of the Earth is framed by six hands holding one another.
Many thanks to @alya.drawn and the folks at @fineacts.co for this excellent graphic.