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Reflections and Next Steps: Gaiafield 2010

Gaiafield 2010

Reflections on WiseClimate

“We the people, the ancestors of our great, great grandchildren, call forth the deepest wisdom and the highest compassion from all those working for a healthy global climate, for the benefit of the entire Earth community and the next seven generations.

May Wisdom and Peace Prevail on Earth”

In the northern fall and southern spring of 2009, the Gaiafield Center for Subtle Activism at California Institute of Integral Studies, in collaboration with Association for Global New Thought, Culture of Peace Initiative, Vessels of Peace, Zambuling Institute of Human Transformation and many local groups around the world convened WiseClimate 2009, a “subtle activism” program that brought people from around the world together in meditation, prayer, and celebration to support a wise approach to global climate change.

The program involved a series of teleconferences and audio webcasts involving “deep listening” subtle activism practices and, for the first time, a very rich “intentional learning community” that involved a smaller group going deeper into a variety of subtle activism topics and practices.

The highlight of the Program was a profound World Blessing Broadcast, led by Dr. Michael Beckwith of Agape International, live from from Melbourne, Australia as part of the Association for Global New Thought Delegate Gathering on the eve of the Parliament of World Religions.

We are so grateful to the many participants who contributed their time and presence to make WiseClimate such a rich and meaningful experience for all of us.

And Next Steps…

Since the completion of our WiseClimate program in December, we’ve been resting, attending to other life projects, and listening for what wants to emerge next for Gaiafield. Core Gaiafield members Leslie Meehan and David Nicol have been focusing on completing their dissertations (Leslie has just finished, David has a few months to go!), which will provide an important theoretical foundation for our work and will support our efforts to spread subtle activism to wider and wider circles.

In our listening, it seems that 2010 is calling for us to attend to more behind-the-scenes infrastructure-building work rather than any significant new public programs. We also feel that it is appropriate to let the garden lay relatively ‘fallow’ for a season to allow something fresh to emerge in the next cycle. However, we do plan to convene a gathering for subtle activist leaders this northern hemisphere fall/southern spring to explore how to support each other’s work. And we will continue to offer a space for the practice of subtle activism through periodic public deep listening calls.