East Coast, February 7th, 7:30PM - 8:30PM (EST)
West Coast, February 7th, 7:30PM - 8:30pm (PST)
Join CPA-NA's bi-monthly drop-in conversation called “Linking Conversations.”
THIS MEETING:
Making Sense of Ourselves and Our Work within the Context of an Emerging and Unstable Paradigm:
All relationships hold the potential for deepening a sense of separation or connection. As events continue to challenge our most familiar and foundational paradigms, our professional and personal relationships also become more complex, and sometimes divisive. Many of us grapple with how to maintain ethical, informed and compassionate interactions without colluding, avoiding or being inadvertently complicit with values and activities that do harm.
Many questions arise in the territory beyond the cultural programming of Modernity:
How do we stay in relationship even when there is difference? How do we engage in inclusive conversations rather than debates, while also maintaining our unique voices? Where do you find yourself getting lost or uncertain as the paradigm shifts? What are particular triggers that close you down, send you spinning or unleash anger? Where have you found ways to navigate differences skillfully and/or to a satisfactory end?
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Generally, in this bi-monthly Linking Conversation series, we will think and talk together about what’s happening in the world–such as extreme weather, political moments, and cultural flashpoints–and about linking thought and action, being and doing, the internal and external worlds. Through these conversations, we hope to create links that will help us bear the weight of climate change and find spaciousness from which to act.
The conversations are founded on the idea that to build an empathic and justice oriented response to the climate crisis, we need to support and honor those parts of being human that “link” - to our own inner lives, to the subjective experiences of others, to the collective lived experience of our communities, and to the environment in which we live and upon which we depend. In a culture that persistently attacks and disavows these links, we aim to recognize and support them.