Evolver Los Angeles Presents: Spore 1.7: Reaction “Resilience is Fertile”

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* Please bring a notebook and a writing device for the workshop.

Join Evolver Los Angeles on Wed the 25th for our August Spore on DIY Resilience. The focus for the evening will be around innovative methods that we all can take to gain personal resilience while creating and supporting a movement towards global resilience. We will examine and participate in the gift circle movement, as well as discuss sustainable living in the kitchen, in the garden, and in community.

Our guest for the evening will be author, and meditation teacher, Deborah Eden Tull who is the founder of Creative Green Sustainability Coaching where she teaches workshops locally and nationally. Eden will be leading us in personal awareness meditations and sustainability exercises meant to increase our personal sustainability while widening our vision of personal and community resilience. She will also present practical actions we can take, focusing on our relationship with food and urban food sustainability, which is the topic of her new book, "The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution."

"[I]n the planetary ecosystem there is no such thing as waste: the waste of one creature is the food of another, creating a sacred gift circle." - Charles Eisenstein The Johny Appleseed of the Gift Circle

This evening will begin with the launching of the Evolver LA Gift Circle, where we will come together to discuss a gift and a need we have with the community and begin to find ways to increase personal and communal cohesiveness by practicing expressing our needs and sharing our many gifts. Conducted by Evolver's 'Agent of Transformation' Baza Novic.

Come join us in building a new story here in LA. An empowering story about learning our lessons with wisdom from the community and from within. A meta-story about us enjoying living in this creative and emergent city by giving back and creating change in our own back yard for the benefit of all sentient beings.

We will be discussing our Citizen Forestry Tree Care program for Griffith Park and surrounding parks with Treepeople. As well as the Evolver Global mission to support emerging communities, holistic initiatives, and the idea that it is our world to change.

Spore Theme: Day of Action

In just over one year, Evolver Spores have spread across the US and abroad, carrying the seeds of a new planetary culture. More than 40 regional groups have sprouted up during these months, bringing together a diverse, conscious community to explore topics critical to our time. But Evolvers don’t simply meet and discuss; they take action in manifesting the world they want to create.

Over the past year, we’ve seen the Regionals initiate alternative currencies, beach clean-ups, healing circles, permaculture gardens, eco-festivals, the building of Earthships, and more. For this month’s Spore, the entire Evolver network will activate to create positive change in our communities.

Join our agents of transformation in coordinating river clean-ups, “renegade gardening,” community foresting, assisting flood victims in Hungary, and other ways we can be of service to our world.

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Deborah Eden Tull is a sustainability coach and meditation teacher who has been traveling to, living in, or teaching about sustainable communities internationally for the last 18 years, including seven years as a monk at the Zen Monastery Peace Center. She teaches workshops throughout Los Angeles County and nationally, and is certified in Permaculture Design, Bio-Intensive Organic Gardening, and Compost Education. Her approach to sustainable living is a unique combination of peace and environmentalism that emphasizes the interconnection between personal and planetary well-being. She was recently featured on KCRW's Good Food and has also been featured in Yogi Times Magazine, Larchmont Chronicle, Westside Today, Bicycle Fixation, Coffee Break TV Show, LA Talk Radio, Your Daily Thread, LA Times, and other publications.
Contact:
323-935-1214
creativegreen@hotmail.com
www.creativegreen.net

Deborah Eden Tull New Book:
"The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution"
Available September 2010 (Process Media)
http://processmediainc.com/store/coming_soon/natural_kitchen_the.php

** What's a Gift Circle? **

It's almost criminally simple. A group of us gather in a circle, one person facilitates, one person takes notes, and we simply go around the circle sharing our Needs with the group, and providing space for members of the group to share their gifts that may serve to meet the Needs of other members.

At the Personal Resilience Gift Circle, we'll be following a slightly different format -- we'll have two circles, an inner circle consisting of folks who are sitting to represent their organization or group that is involved with Personal or Global Resilience in some way, and an outer circle of individuals who are just sitting as themselves (the normal Evolver event attendees, etc).

Folks in the inner circle will each have the opportunity to express a Need (of their group) and a Gift (that their group likes to offer, or brings to the community) and folks from both inner and outer circles will be able to offer their gifts in ways that may serve to support the Needs expressed by inner circle. Someone will take notes, and compile the data in an email that will be sent out afterwords.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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