Ways of Gathering
“Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.”
- Donna Haraway
Rather than trying to promote or socialize certain ideas or adhere to a specific pedagogy, the TRC holds space to collectively examine our role within the transition including our relationship with power, money, and philanthropy.
We operate with principles and practices that support embodied cognition; metabolize metaphysical crises; practice communal counsel; deepen intimacy and empathy; and endeavor to decolonize the mind/heart/soul complex. Essentially, we explore what inner and outer systems change are required to respond to our civilizational metacrisis and how we can support each other to build new realities.
We endeavor to perceive, listen, and respond to a multidimensional fabric of relations - with ourselves, with each other, with our more-than-human kin and with the living planet.
As we are all implicated and inextricably woven into the fabric of neoliberalism, late-stage capitalism, patriarchy and structural racism, we need approaches that support us to identify, untangle, and actively unlearn the deep logics we have internalized. We also need methods that support us to open up to the plurality of ways of seeing and knowing to cultivate imaginal realms; to conceive and create alternative possible future(s); and to take practical steps in achieving these realities.
Webinar: Post Capitalist Narrative Evolution
Join the Transition Resource Circle and Culture Hack Labs to learn about our collaborative narrative landscape research on philanthropy and wealth– exploring how philanthropy could transition from neoliberal paradigms of extraction and control to visions that heal and liberate wealth in service to Life.
We will share potential narrative reframes that point to a new/ancient/emerging horizon - wealth as a transition pathway - where wealth is alchemized through philanthropy to usher in post capitalist realities worth living.
Date: Monday April 29th, 2024
Time: 9 am PT/12 pm ET/5 pm UK
Duration: 90 minutes
We’ll cover:
Introduction to Post Capitalist Philanthropy and the role of narrative
Unpacking the narrative landscape on philanthropy and wealth and what it says about philanthropy’s potential to respond to our meta-crisis
Exploring narrative pathways, or reframes to shift from a paradigm (and practice) of philanthropy rooted in extractive and control to healing and liberation.
Exploring Wealth as a Transition Pathway- how philanthropy can serve as a territory of transition to usher in post capitalist realities
Key Speakers
Alnoor Ladha
Mehul Sangham
Lynn Murphy
Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar Series
The TRC recorded a five-part webinar series exploring the hidden, unspoken and maybe even esoteric dimensions of philanthropy, wealth and capital as part of the launch of their book
Lynn and Alnoor were joined by guest hosts including Vandana Shiva, Vanessa Andreotti, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Bayo Akomolafe and Rupa Marya. They took us through a journey ranging from:
the history of capitalism and not often spoken contradictions in philanthropy
ways to metabolize our current crisis
various approaches to understand and respond to collapse(s)
practices for embodied cognition and ontological shifts
explorations of other ways of knowing, sensing and being
possible transition pathways towards post capitalist realities
Watch Webinar SEries:
Online Sense-Making
Each year we host a sense-making circle to acknowledge fears and grief; share possibilities and practices for a world in crisis; contemplate the spiritual and karmic implications of our work; explore pathways for collaboration; and exchange learning on how we can support the inevitable transition. In short, we endeavor to share, learn, and evolve a post-capitalist praxis among funders and funder-activists together. If interested, please find the contact button at the bottom of this page.
Gatherings
We come together in various circles in person and online to deepen our practice, cultivate a growing group of allies, and quicken our responses to the transition. Each year, we convene international and regional cohorts starting with an in-person gathering. We then continue to deepen the work and our shared exploration online throughout the year.
Our next annual gathering will take place at Tierra Valiente in Costa Rica between April 11th - 18th. To join the 2024 cohort, please submit your application below.
WHEN WE GATHER, WE CREATE SHARED AGREEMENTS WHILE FOLLOWING PATHWAYS OF EMERGENCE. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR SHARED GUIDELINES FOR INQUIRY:
Co-counsel
To create a trusting space together in order to go deeper into how philanthropy is responding to this pivotal moment in time, our internal contradictions and what we are committed to change.
inner/outer mirroring
To understand and experience the essential inner and outer connections in our work to move from capitalism towards regenerative/post-capitalist systems.
De-Schooling
To allow for deep strategic thinking and rich discussions, informed by de-schooling and reconsideration of accepted premises, in a space where we can be humans, not only funders.
relationality
To initiate and cultivate deep relations among those who live with these inquiries and are committed to deepening these practices together.
trans-rational
To evoke ideas that are trans-rational and create a holistic container that includes spiritual / metaphysical dimensions.
EMBodied cognition
To cycle between mind and body in order to create new pathways of embodied cognition, returning home to our physical vessels as vehicles for empathy, creativity, and intuitive knowing.