Dear friends,
Welcome to my latest update. Somehow, it’s February already.
What I’ve been up to
Totnes Convergence
Totnes Convergence is a participatory event in Totnes and Dartington, Devon, UK for 300 people, Thursday 4th - Sunday 7th June 2020 that I initiated and am curating alongside Hana Wolf, Phoebe Tickell, Tarn Rodgers Johns, Daniel Hernandez and Chloe Wykes.
Themes include: complexity, ecology & regeneration · decentralised organising · entheogens & consciousness · magic, witchcraft & indigeneity · metamodern politics, new economics & Game B · movement, touch & play · music & performance · the great transition
If you appreciate my work/this newsletter, you’re going to love Totnes Convergence. Read more and apply via Autopia
Totnes visitors
I’ve had the pleasure of hosting many fine friends in Totnes over the past weeks, including Richard Dennis Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo (Enspiral/The Hum), Ronan Harrington (Alter Ego), Gaia Harvey Jackson and the Psychedelic Society team.
Gaia, Ronan and me communing with the sea at Prawle Point
Hana, Kyle, Bibi and Simon on Mel Tor
In other news:
I shared two of my superpowers by publishing curated lists of key software and key Facebook groups
I initiated and participated in a 5-day, 110-person gathering at a beautiful property in North Somerset that was co-created on Autopia, an open source app I built and continue to work on
I was accepted onto the Karuna Institute's Foundation Course in Core Process Psychotherapy, a 5-day residential training at the Institute's manor on Dartmoor
From July I'll be studying a 1 year apprenticeship in Contemporary Animism led by Colin Campbell and Angharad Wynne, featuring Sharon Blackie, David Abram, Stephan Harding and Andy Letcher, including two residential retreats at Embercombe
I helped plant over 1,000 trees at the beautiful Pondfield site
Need a facilitator? This year I'm open to stepping more into paid facilitation/consultancy/speaking work, if it's asked of me.
Ethical Superstore is still offering a free £40 voucher if you switch to Triodos Bank
My knowledge graph continues to grow as I share content on a near daily basis
My plans
20 Feb: Hosting a Members’ Social at the Psychedelic Society
21-23 Feb: Divine Ridiculous: Lupercalia
8-13 Mar: Karuna Institute Foundation Course in Core Process Psychotherapy
14-17 May: Alter Ego?
4-7 Jun: Totnes Convergence
16-21 Jun: Kiez Burn?
1-5 Jul: ISTA Wild Love
20-24 Jul: Contemporary Animism
28-31 Jul: European Ecovillage Gathering?
12-17 Aug: Waking Life
20-23 Aug: Enspiral Europe gathering?
27-31 Aug: Medicine Festival
Reciprocity
Some ways you can reciprocate if you appreciate this newsletter:
Come to Totnes Convergence
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Hit reply and let me know what you found useful/introduce me to someone/make me a recommendation
Until next time, with love,
Stephen