World Blessing for the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the UN Conference on Climate Change

Tuesday December 1, 4-5.30pm PST/7-8.30pm EST; Wednesday December 2, 12-1.30am GMT, 11am-12.30pm Melbourne time, Australia.

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A collaborative program in the fall of 2009 to connect spiritual practitioners and communities with those working for climate change through a series of “subtle activism” teleconferences and webcasts that will coincide with critical climate change events in the world.

“Deep Listening” is a simple practice in which participants are guided into a meditative space to “listen” into the field for intuitive guidance in relation to a real-world event or issue (such as climate change). After about half an hour of silent listening, the moderator opens the “circle” to allow anyone who feels moved to share insights that may have arisen for them in the meditation.

WiseClimate was a subtle activism program convened by the Gaiafield Project in 2009 to support the Climate Change negotiations in Copenhagen. We present the details here as an example of an extended subtle activism program focused on a real world issue.

WiseClimate has 2 components: a Public Program and a Learning Community

Public Program

Our Public Program involves a series of “deep listening” Talkcasts (via teleconference and audio webcast) that will coincide with critical climate change and healthcare reform events in the world, including:

• October 24 – Climate Action Day (organized by 350.org)
• Second week of November – WiseClimate Council of All Beings (potential live event in San Francisco)
• December 2 (Australia)/December 1 (USA and Europe) – WiseClimate peak event – Global meditation webcast live from the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia
• December 12 – UN Climate Change Resolution voting day

Learning Community

Deepen your experience of subtle activism in a 10-week program involving:

• 6 teleconference classes involving small group support for personal goals and learning (see the box below for details)
• a personal commitment to a daily intention practice which YOU design and are supported by your small group to maintain. (E.g., light a candle for climate change in our online sanctuary at www.gratefulness.org; reduce your carbon ecofootprint by your desired amount; add the WiseClimate core intention to your existing practice.)
• optional weekly community “deep listening” calls (every Friday, 8.30-9.30 AM PST, 3.30-4.30 PM GMT)
• participation in the Public Program (i.e., 4 Public Talkcasts).

Energy Exchange To participate in the Learning Community program, we suggest an energy exchange of time, money, or in-kind support. The deep listening calls are a free offering. We suggest that financial contributions for the classes and support groups be in the range of $50-$100 for the whole program. Scholarships and work/study arrangements are available.

Join us! The Learning Community is limited to 35 participants. To reserve your space, please send an email to council@gaiafield.net with a brief note about your interest, your subtle activism background and your energy exchange preference.

Teleconference Classes

The teleconference classes will involve:

• presentations on various subtle activism topics
• class discussion
• facilitated small groups for dialogue about personal practices and intentions (using the new Maestro teleconference service that allows for breakout groups)

Presentation topics will include:

• An Orientation to Subtle Activism (Monday October 5)
• The Subtle Activist’s Guide to Climate Change (Monday October 19)
• Subtle Activism and Shadow Work (Monday November 2)
• Subtle Activism Practices 1 – Sound Healing (Monday November 16)
• Subtle Activism Practices 2 – Spaceholding (Monday December 7)
• WiseClimate program final reflections (Date TBD)

Classes will be from 5.30-6.30PM PST/8.30-9.30PM EST/4.30-5.30AM GMT.

Participants will be expected to read 2-5 pages of orientation materials prior to each class (materials will be sent at least 3 days before class) and to listen to the mp3 recording if they cannot attend the live class (recordings will be available here). There will also be an optional online discussion forum.