When people come together, can places transform our actions?
photo by Amy Lenzo
What is the relationship between gathering place and the people
who steward it, such as founders/owners, facilitators, staff?
How important is the relationship between a gathering
place and the surrounding local community? How does this relationship
affect the potential for transformation for the groups gathered
there?
How can place be an ally or adversary to conveners of
gatherings?
How can we help places recover from a violent past?
What are the practices, both individual and collective,
that will expand our capacities as human beings to honor, revere,
and reciprocate with place?
What internal shifts will be required of us to be in a
new relationship with place?
What practices breathe more
aliveness into any place, especially those that are not ideal?
If participants at gatherings are made more aware of the
surroundings (through simple techniques or tools such as a
questionnaire), does the quality/outcome of their work together
change for the better?
How does conscious stewardship and right relationship
of people with land restore the spiritual connection lost in
human history?
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