A Between Time
How to use this page: This is a collection of "brain food" meant to help us more deeply understand the time we've been born into. Multiple perspectives on our current predicament and our possible future(s) are represented, with a focus on allowing complexity, deep time, and imagination.
Resources are selected because they have helped folks feel, heal, and/or mature in increasingly chaotic times.
You might engage with this material slowly, at the speed of trust and digestion.
Some people find this question helpful: What would it be like to engage with this media as though it could change my life?
Understanding Our Predicament
What stories might help us make sense of the time we've been born into?
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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This film is a good place to start
The Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective (GTDF)
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Particularly worth exploring are Hospicing Modernity and Outgrowing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliviera and the GTDF's Facing Human Wrongs course
Surviving the Future: A Path Through Tumultuous Times (course)
At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies by Dougald Hine (book)
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Here is an excellent recorded introduction to this material
Living in the Metacrisis with Jonathan Rowson (video)
The Eternal Song (film series)
Roots Deeper than Whiteness by David Dean (article)
Living Into Being with Joe Brewer
Understanding Our Work
What ways of being might help us become good ancestors?
Grief Work
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This video is a good place to start
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The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller (book)
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Programs and Workshops with Francis Weller
Ecocentric Soul Work
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This is a good place to start
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Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World by Bill Plotkin
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The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visonaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries by Bill Plotkin
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Retreats with the Animas Valley Institute
The Work That Reconnects
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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown
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We Are the Great Turning (podcast)
Ecocentric and Collective Trauma Work
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Somatic Abolitionism
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This is a good introduction (podcast) as is My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
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The Cultural Somatics Institute (self-directed courses)
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On Trauma and Vegetation Gods (podcast)
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Facing Human Wrongs (course)