---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nuno Da Silva <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:07 AM Subject: Introduction to the Course "A Delicate Activism - – An Invitation Towards a Practice that is Alive", Algarve - Portugal, 6 to 10 of February 2018 To: Dear friend, We hope life is taking good care of you:-) Please help us spread this message to your contacts in Europe who you feel might resonate with this call. We are inviting people who are deeply involved in community development work and especially those who are dancing with national and international networks, communities of practice and movements working to support the great turning/transition to regenerative cultures that nurture eco-systems and the planet as a whole. We are in this together!!! Much love and gratitude, Nuno on behalf of RECIFE and The EMERGENCE NETWORK Dear friends, The RECIFE <https://recifealgarve.wordpress.com/> and The Emergence Network <http://www.emergencenetwork.org/>, in collaboration with ARISE Education <http://www.arise.education/>, are pleased and thrilled to invite you to come and join us in the course "A Delicate Activism - – An Invitation Towards a Practice that is Alive", that we are hosting in the south of Portugal, from the 6th to the 10th of February 2018. ​ This course will be facilitated by The Proteus Initiative <http://www.proteusinitiative.org/> amazing team composed of Allan Kaplan and Sue Davidoff, who are coming from South Africa to share with us their deep and lively approach to community development, change processes and activism in general. We invite you to read the article "A Delicate Activism" <http://socialself.org/Articles/adelicate.aspx> to investigate what this course is inviting you to explore and sense if it resonates with you. The instrumental nature of much contemporary social activism has become a contributing factor to – rather than a resolution of – the rapid and escalating social and ecological crises that beset our world. Our urgency to achieve change often unfolds a calculative, strategic mindset; results, rather than process, become primary. Yet a closer look at how life actually lives reveals that means are the ends that we arrive at – that our points of departure foretell our places of arrival. The approach introduced in these five days offers the possibility to understand and work with radically different, more appropriate, more organic approaches to social and ecological process and practice. To work in ways that are respectful of the complexity and true nature of our challenges. Encountering the problems we face in the world today requires the exercise of a responsive creativity premised on our own transformation in the process of engagement. This, we suggest, is built through the disciplined practice of observation as it enters the living processes through which life on earth unfolds. These five days introduce a grounded, aware, engaged and imaginative interpersonal practice. Pratical Information: Location: Set amidst the hills, in a beautiful valley in the heart of Algarve, the Monte Mariposa Retreat Centre will offer the possibility of a deep individual and group immersion. http://montemariposa.co.uk/ Arrivals to Faro (closest airport) are expected on the 5th of February and departures on the 11th of February 2018. *Registration fee: 650 euros (early bird before 31st of October); 720 euros after that. Registrations are limited to 24 participants.The fee covers all costs related with board, lodging, and course related work and materials. The travel costs from your place to the venue are not included.* More information and registration form available in RECIFE webpage: https://recifealgarve.wordpress.com/formacoes/#30 We look forward to meet you here for this unique opportunity to learn from the authors of "Development Practitioners and Social Process - Artists of the Invisible" <http://www.cdra.org.za/store/p1/Development_Practitioners_and_Social_Process_-_Artists_of_the_Invisible_Allan_Kaplan._Pluto_Press,_2002.html> and "The Development Practitioner's Handbook" <https://books.google.pt/books?id=Y1CtgqVvjzYC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Development+Practitioner%27s+Handbook&source=bl&ots=lkqUKNCRwO&sig=P-tlEdeGC_s5n-6J0aecxf6WSVY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv8fSF_9bWAhWEExoKHeCqA3gQ6AEISjAG#v=onepage&q=Development%20Practitioner's%20Handbook&f=false> as well as "The Learning School: An Organisation Development Approach" <https://books.google.pt/books/about/The_Learning_School.html?id=LP4eiPUf0iYC&redir_esc=y> . Nuno da Silva *‘There are no solutions; there is only the ongoing practice of being open and alive to each meeting, each intra-action, so that we might use our ability to respond, our responsibility, to help awaken, to breathe life into ever new possibilities for living justly.’* *Karen Barad* Personal Website <https://nunodasilvablog.wordpress.com/> RECIFE - REde Colaborativa de Iniciativas para um Futuro Eco-sistémico (Coordinator <https://recifealgarve.wordpress.com/>) The Emergence Network Curator <http://www.emergencenetwork.org/> Comunidade de Empreendedores Evolucionários, João Sem Medo <http://www.joaosemmedo.org/> FESCOOP - The Cooperative of Ethical Finances in Portugal (founding member <https://financaseticas.mautic.net/movimentofinancaseticas>) Rede Educação Viva - Southeast Algarve hub coordinator <http://www.educacaoviva.pt/> Pool of Trainers, Portuguese Platform for Development Organizations (Plataforma ONGD) <http://www.plataformaongd.pt/formacao/bolsa-de-formadores/> Transition Portugal <http://transicaoportugal.net/> (Trainers Team and Communication Team) SALTO Trainers online for Youth <http://trainers.salto-youth.net/NunoDaSilva/> Council of Europe, Youth Directorate trainers pool <http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/youth/Training/Quality_NFE/TP_presentation_en.asp> P Antes de imprimir pense em sua responsabilidade ecompromisso com o MEIO AMBIENTE Before printing, think of the environment Nota de Confidencialidade: Esta mensagem destina-se a utilização por parte do(s) destinatário(s) identificado(s) acima e pode conter informação confidencial e/ou privilegiada. 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