You Are Invited to Social Alchemy Lab
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We live in a beautiful and challenging world. The culture we create shapes our wellbeing, family, and community life, and contributes to our changing climate. You are invited to co-explore what it takes to build a thriving culture that embraces diversities.
We live with many polarities and divisions in today’s world. Is it possible to embrace our differences and weave a radical sense of belonging? We trust it’s possible because it has been our practice in life.
Through relating, storytelling and embodied sense-making, we will explore alchemizing differences into empathy and shared understanding. We will weave in a sense of belonging that is earth-centered, and welcome a diverse range of perspectives essential to our ecosystem.
We offer this lab as a creative space to foster future collaborations with community members who share similar visions of bridging the divide, amplifying unity and harmony, and creating conditions for a thriving ecosystem of cultural perspectives and diversities.
In these labs, you will be
- Sharing stories, diverse perspectives, and interrelating in a microcosm of our shared community
- Gaining insight and tools into how we can alchemize differences into shared empathy and understanding
- Learning embodied skills to be present and even playful with uncertainty and unknown
- Developing an embodied sense of belonging and inclusiveness, rooted in citizenship with the planet.
Saturdays, 9 am – 12 pm, 103 Chuckanut Drive North
Jan 25: Love / Fear
Feb 22: Certainty / Uncertainty
Mar 22: Truth
Apr 26: Should/Wonder (With Kids)
Attend any or all sessions.
Space is limited to 15 people per session.
April Session is Inter-Generational!
Do you have a child or teenager interested in exploring culture and earth interconnection in a playful co-creative community space?
Our April session invites a generative, intergenerative experience for parent(s) and kids to experience Social Alchemy together!
Our design is for 5 years or older, and a ratio approximating parent-child duos. Please inquire about variations based on your circumstances! We welcome additional thoughts and additive learning combinations.
People who have attended one or more Social Alchemy Lab are invited to the monthly Alchemy Practice session. Register here.
Spring Cheng, PhD., is a facilitator, leadership coach, teacher and practitioner of the Tao. She is also a songwriter and singer, and a scientist exploring how consciousness evolves. Spring immigrated from China and serves as a cultural bridge across the Pacific Ocean. Read full bio here.
Sara Airoldi, M.Ed., is a consultant who works with engaged learning. She has centered her career on supporting youth, staff, and community who have experienced marginalization and trauma to explore their essential voice and co-create vitality and ecosystems of care. Read full bio here.
Joe Shirley, MA, is the inventor of psychotopology, a ground-breaking science of subjective experience. His work connects with one’s innate source of wholeness, while navigating through the traumatic and beautiful terrain of individual and collective consciousness. Read full bio here.