Full Description
If care and creativity are survival literacies, and if edges are sites of emergence, then this final circle turns toward the question of response: how are we being asked to show up? Not everyone is a frontline organizer or a public storyteller. Nor does everyone need to be. reWorlding is a communal effort that is made possible through many kinds of labor, seen and unseen, material and relational.
In this two-hour workshop session, led by community members Lauren Zitney and Nicole Civita, we will explore Roles for reWorlding, a framework developed within otherWise to help communities name, value, and practice the diverse orientations that make collective change and transformation possible. Instead of centering productivity or conventional leadership, this framework honors the often overlooked capacities that sustain collective life: from knowledge carriers, healers, and pattern-workers, to menders, protectors, builders, and subverters.
Participants will be invited to explore six broad categories – Knowledge & Meaning Stewards, Feelers & Healers, Makers & Tinkerers, Navigators & Pattern Workers, Carers & Coherers, and Disruptors – and more specific roles within them to consider which roles feel resonant in this moment of their lives. This is a way of asking and noticing: Where do my gifts meet the needs of my community? Where am I most alive in the work of reworlding? And where might I be called next?
Guiding questions include:
1. Which reWorlding role(s) feels most aligned with how you currently move through the world and why?
2. Where do you notice yourself being pulled, even if you’ve never named that capacity as a “role” before?
3. How do our roles shift in relationship with place, community, life stage, or circumstance?
4. What becomes possible when we understand reWorlding as a collaboration among many kinds of work, not a single kind of leadership?
About the Facilitator
A recovering policy-wonk, Lauren is learning how to embody questions and inhabit roles that make sense in our times. She has a strong background in the performing arts and is working on several projects at the intersection of the arts and collapse. She lives in a DIY school-bus-turned-tiny-home with her husband, Noah, and their cat, Indie. The past few years, the plants have been calling her, so she has finally made connections with farms that she will begin volunteering with shortly, and just got accepted into a school of community herbalism, both of which she is stoked about!
