Local Resilience Gift Circle Spore

** Basic Event Info **

Evolver Spore - Local Resilience Gift Circle
Thurs June 10, 2010 - 6:30-10:30pm
Terra's Temple
654 Oakland Ave
Oakland, CA 94611

6:30pm- Doors and mingling with live acoustic guitar by Alex Jacobs
www.LexJacobs.com
7:00pm - Intro to Evolver, grounding meditation
7:20pm - Mira Luna from BACE on "Local Resilience & Tools for the Relationship Economy"
7:40pm - Alpha Lo on Gift Circles
8:00pm - Local Resilience Gift Circle (see description below)
9:45pm - closing remarks, intention setting, conversations, personal connections, logistics
10pm - Music by Alex Jacobs, mingling

For this month's Evolver Spore, focusing on the theme of Local Resilience, we'll be doing a few things differently:

** New Venue **
We'll be meeting at a new space, Terra's Temple in Oakland, instead of at Sera Phi. This group is the *Bay Area* Evolver group, and we are happy to have found an East Bay space to use in addition to our beloved San Francisco space, and hope to alternate between the spaces, towards the end of spreading the love (and convenience) throughout more of the Bay Area.

Please consider carpooling from SF, or taking Public transit (BART to 19th St, Oakland, then a bus). Leave a comment on the Facebook RSVP page (link at bottom) if you'd like to carpool, with your info.

** Local Resilience **
For the Local Resilience theme, we'll begin with a short introduction to the Local Resilience theme by Mira Luna (founder of the Bay Area Community Exchange and BACE Timebank), a short introduction to Gift Circles by Alpha Lo, co-editor of the Open Collaboration Encyclopedia, and founder of the Fairfax Gift Circle, which has subsequently seeded the new East Bay Gift Circle.

Mira's talk will focus on the tools for the relationship economy (gift economies, timebanks, alt currencies), the economy that provides for everyone because we see ourselves as spiritually/materially interconnected.

We hope to have the following organizations present at the Gift Circle: BACE, Transition Town, The Hub, Bay Localize, Shareable.net, Neighborhood Fruit, Terra's Temple, etc. We have room for about 11 organizations to sit in the Gift Circle- by RSVP. If there is someone you think needs to be present, please email me (reginagelfo (at) gmail (dot) com) with them CCed.

** 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 Local 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 Local 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 afterwards.

** Etc **
As always, we'll begin the evening with a meditation, and close with meditation or music. If you'd like to play music (generally something acoustic and/or mellow) or lead a meditation at a future event please email me (reginagelfo (at) gmail (dot) com).

If you are interested in serving your community as a notetaker or helping me with other administrative needs, please email me (reginagelfo (at) gmail (dot) com).

** Please RSVP on Facebook! **
At this link:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122519744449432