Date(s):
23 Jul 2014 until 27 Jul 2014
Hollyhock
PO Box 127
Cortez Island, B.C.
- Leadership
- Social Change
- Training
Let us re-story the world!
In nature, some seeds only bloom after cataclysm. By analogy, some parts of ourselves only come alive at a time of Dire Beauty. Now is that time.
Trickster Medicine is the sine qua non*, because it renders all other dedications effective. By assuming personal and cultural leadership, by expanding our repertoire of responses rather than reactions, we ally ourselves with nature’s evolutionary intelligence and ingenuity.(Trickster, Coyote, Raven, Sheherezade, Marie Laveau, High John the Conqueror and more!)
Cultivate the magic of language, metaphoric agility and story. Animate, magnetize and spiral forth into the memosphere, the most irresistibly all inclusive guiding cultural meta-story.
Hold up your magic mirror (that you have always had, like Dorothy’s slippers in the Wizard of Oz). Now, the secular critic part of yourself says, “Look, it sucks – in detail.” Then, with a wave of the hand, your Inner Trickster transforms the mirror into a window, “But look how beautiful it could be!” And then, with another wave of the hand, transforms the window into a door – “Let’s Go!”
Trickster Training includes:
5 day retreat at the amazing Hollyhock on Cortez Island, B.C.
Practicing the arts of critique and blessing
Studying leadership models in the natural world (wolves, geese and…)
Teasing forth the implications of the trickster tales
Together, guided by natural facts, myth, fairy and folk tale, poetry, actual political reality, the ancestors, and ritual magic, we’ll spiral redemptive possibilities into group mind, and then individually syncretize, customize, and animate our own companionable Trickster Redeemer, that we may be agents of the imperative Cultural Renaissance.
This time of Dire Beauty guides us to ally with Nature’s evolutionary Indigenuity to spiral forth cultural renaissance of collaborative cahooting.
Guided by natural facts (Let all Natural facts be social strategy metaphors!), myth, fairy tales, poetry, politics, magic and our animated inner Trickster, let’s re-story the world.