8 Week Online Immersion
A collective journey into the collapse of western civilisation.
‘’Well I hear people say, we’ve come far too late. And the world arounds coming tumbling down. But there’s a future we can feel, and in our heart’s its real.’’ - Lear Hodgkins
Is this you?
You recognise yourself alive in a period of radical shift and change. It is clear to you that we live in the ruins of what we know of western culture and civilisation, and you live with another story alive in your heart, longing to come through.
You know to some extent why you, your soul is here on earth, and you feel you are here to stand in the crack between one culture collapsing around you and another one beginning to emerge, both with your own unique gifts and in allyship with others.
You’ve likely been involved in new age, spiritual, and self development work but you feel that it’s not quite it, and often bypasses the reality the world we actually inhabit, that it can often feel somehow saccharine, hyper-psychologised, and often absent of humanity.
You live with a creative spark at your core, and are interested in asking how we may respond to the crises of our times from a deeper level together, from working with creativity itself and as artists of the times we are living through.
You are interested in how change happens, not in bubbles, but in the rubble of collapse, in the places we live.
You are interested in the power of group to intelligently and creatively compost, digest and reimagine culture and civilisation.
You feel the fires of revolution alive in the heart of humanity, and you want to deepen into your agency in this.
FORMAT
8 Weeks
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3 Longer Sessions at Beginning, Middle and End
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Artistic Practice and Prompts
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Embodiment and Somatic Work
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Ritual Theatre
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Creative Agency Practice
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Story-telling
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Group work and individual inquiry
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This 8 Week Immersion aims to support people to meet the work of Heart of Crisis in real time.
Through group work, individual enquiry, story telling, ritual theatre, creative games, artistic and somatic practice, we journey into the territories of crisis together.
METHODOLOGY
Facing the Forces Collapse
We turn towards the tensions, pressures, forces, and energetics of collapse, asking ourselves how these forces impact us individually and collectively, how they impact our decision making and lives, and asking what we can do to become aware of these forces, and to work with them alchemically and metamorphically.
Turning Towards Crisis As Opportunity
Working with key ‘Windows in the Rubble’, we turn together towards crisis as opportunity, asking how we can synergise, digest, reimagine and revivify culture and civilisation, through working with key parts of it.
Meeting Humanity in the ruins
The various crises we face can take us further away from one another, or our common humanity, or they can act as a catalyst to bring us closer together, to find common ground and coherence in the storms of our times. We dive into how this might be possible.
Finding Agency and Creativity from the rubble
We believe crisis can be a time of great possibility and creative fertility if we choose to meet it. When old set structures and cultures become no longer viable for humanity, we turn towards the creative possiblity of our future.
Windows in the Rubble
Window 1:
Crises of Agency, Decision Making, and Governance
Window 2:
Crisis of Relationship and Responsibility.
Window 4:
Crisis of Creativity and Culture
Window 3:
Crisis of Complexity and Connection
Window 6:
Crisis of Ideology and Ideals
Window 5:
Crisis of Mind and Technology.
Window 7:
Crisis of Body and Embodiment.
Heart of Crisis as a Viral Radio Signal
We are living in a state of collapse.
If Heart of Crisis were a viral signal, going out into the void of space, it would say this.
We are living in a state of collapse. It is a process that everyone who lives in the western world specifically is impacted by.
Collapse operates on many levels and has been brought about by various factors, levels, pressures that are widely known as ‘the meta-crisis’.
How we turn towards collapse together will determine how we are able to meet this unique moment of time we are living through together.
It is vital to turn towards and meet collapse, inside and outside of ourselves on multiple levels, in order to find new pathways together through the decay and the composting.
We need more spaces that are designed to work specifically with collapse in a way that makes space for individual and collective metamorphosis, that support individuals and groups to more adequately meet, hold, digest, and alchemise the human process of living between stories, between civilisations, in the ruins of what we know and with the hope beating and alive in our hearts of something more beautiful aching to come through.
Collapse cannot be collectively ingested as a whole. Nor is the way to attempt to find some kind of collective cultural consensus, whereby a nation or a political party find the ‘one right way or answer’.
Instead, the solution must be mycellial, neuro-emergent, sourced in individuals who are willing to meet collapse head on with the shared heart, that we are here, in this together, and that it is our common humanity that we need to find amid the tension and the polarisation, amid
The solution has to be done by groups who live close enough to one another, that the work that is done in these containers becomes a living culture that they are in an ongoing shared process together.
We need not to create more bubbles away from he world as it slowly comes apart but to meet in the rubble, together, and from that place of acknowledging ourselves as part of the rubble.
From this place, life, coherence, shared hope, vision, dreams can form, and we can take a step together into the future, not with a map or ideologies between us, but with our creative hearts alive, and willing to create form from the ashes, .
What becomes possible from the rubble?
What becomes possible, when we have the courage to meet crisis and collapse together?
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What opens between us, as humans, when we acknowledge ourselves as cells as part of a wider culture that is in a process of compost, emergence and reimagination?
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How can we support one another in the process with allyship, companionship and support?
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What creative possibilities blossom in us and between us when we dare to meet the rubble?
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What agency becomes apparent when we actively meet the forces of crisis and collapse, rather than turning away?
COST AND EXCHANGE
COST
Heart of Crisis operates through Radical Economics. Radical Economics is an experiment into how money and resource moves from propping up a culture and civilisation that is in collapse, to supporting emerging cultures, ideas and creativity that is coming through the cracks of its composting.
All proceeds from this round of Heart of Crisis will be donated to Radical Economics as an experiment. Participants will be invited to explore radical economics during the process of Heart of Crisis.
We ask participants to donate what they can considering their financial capacity at the time of participation.
Low Capacity £111
Medium Capacity £222
High Capacity £333
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