A slew of goodies headed off to the Wayward Retreats team tomorrow morning! These items will be included in blind box rewards to say thank you to folks who support our Kickstarter (running until November 30th). The team is primarily raising funds to replenish the scholarship fund for creators of color, which has been amply utilized these last few years. (Hooray!)
I've been involved with Wayward as a retreater and returning facilitator since 2019 and I wanna see this community thrive!!! The whole experience feels like the perfect intersection of my interests and proclivities as an artist.
Also I just wanna applaud them for picking the best photo for my facilitator bio.
"Eyy, you wanna buy a flowah crown?"
Anyway, if you're interested in participating in a future retreat, read on for info about Wayward:
Wayward is a creative retreat for artists of all marginalized genders set on Quadra Island, BC. Free from cell phones and internet, the artists at Wayward have the quiet time and space they need to dig deep into their art, experiment, explore, and hone their craft. We welcome nonbinary folks, transgender folks, and cisgender women from a range of artistic backgrounds with the aim of creating a safer space for connection with self, other artists, and the work. Our artists come back from Wayward revitalized, often with important inroads made into new, experimental avenues in their work. In this way, Wayward fulfills its mission of helping artists advance their art and process in service of a more harmonious world.
In addition to solo work time, Wayward creates space for collaboration and adventure. Retreaters create an interconnected group piece over the course of the retreat week. Optional workshops and excursions into the wild are offered for those who need a break from their work. Morning movement class helps retreaters wake to the day in a gentle way. Daily meals are prepared by the hosts and retreaters together, often with greens from the house’s garden, oysters from the nearby beach, or other local ingredients.
Check out the retreat website here and keep an eye out for future applications! And thanks to @sawdustbear for their stellar work on this campaign.
"Safer Support Groups: Facilitation for belonging, inclusion & empowerment," a panel by The Crisses, presented at the Plural Positivity World Conference 2023. This video has closed captioning.
If competition is the main evolutionary driver, why can so many species coexist within the same ecosystem instead to have a few that dominat
"... Biodiversity - declared Dr. Cazzolla Gatti - is not originated "from the war of nature, from famine and death" as Darwint thought, but from the power of life to enable other life; not from war, but from the searching for peace; not from competition but from the avoidance of it, e.g. from cooperation and facilitation (i.e. by autocatalysis)."
July has been labeled as Minority mental health month. Oftentimes, expressive art facilitation/therapy resources are far from accessible to minorities. Most people with healing roles do not represent the demographics that they serve. Also, quality spaces in nature are not found in communities of color. The outdoor industry and recreation is targeted mostly towards the dominant culture. The purpose of this activity is to help you heal with your representation of nature. Reblog to share this facilitation.
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