Gaia Storytelling Conversations in Berlin
Berlin GAIA
STORYTELLING CONVERSATIONS 2020 April 15-18 2020
600 euros for 6participants, 300 euros for students including PhD students
LOCATION INFO www.traditionelles-yoga.de
Brunnenstr. 147
10115 Berlin (M)
Storytellers shaping the Gaialog spaces
Julia Hayden:
bodymind therapist and Princess Gaia Anete M.
Camille Strand: Material storyteller and associate professor
at Aalborg University Jens Larsen:
True storyteller and founder of OldFriendsIndustries Kenneth
Mølbjerg Jørgensen: Terrestrial ethics storymaker and
professor at Aalborg University David M. Boje:
A shaman, true storyteller and professor at Aalborg
University and emeritus at New Mexico State University.
Natality is the ground principle of sustainability:
the principle
of rebirth and of multispecies storytelling as the foundation for
rebirth and
of the eternal recurrence. Our participants will be ivited to
encounter Latour’s
work in simple ways on the distinction between Gaia and the Globe.
We
will introduce the
Gaia hypothesis with
its principles here. It is powerful to illuminate that we call
human time and
space of Gaia and not the other way around.
Personal rework is the work with personal stories.
We are inspired
by Latour’s notion of being “grounded”, making the world “flat”
and us the
vortex metaphor to try to illuminate the different life processes
unfolding
differently around us with a different speed and intensity and
with different
consequences concerning the life processes of Gaia: water use,
air, plastic and
other resources for instances. In organizations we can say that
the problem
concerns the way the life processes of processes of finance,
production, people
and so forth are inconsistent with the life processes of Gaia.
Mapping out
these relations in a practical way is critical for Gaia
storytelling.
Latour talks about
moving people
from material-discursive practices organized around the axis
local/global
towards a grounded terrestrial beingness, a fundamentally
different and
progressive kind of discourse and storytelling. It is this kind of
rework on
both a personal and collective level which we see as important for
Gaia
Storytelling. In regard to the personal rework we also have some
important concepts
and tool in protrepsis
and body whispering.
They can both be seen
as important for listening to inner voices of body in terms of
what is right
and what is wrong.
With material practices, we refer to the practices of the
organization
and thus the technologies for using and manipulating resources and
create
something different from these resources. Technologies refers to
the crafts,
skills and judgments of people and the use of material objects and
artefacts.
Here we become very material but we might need to. Too much ethics
has been
focused on the personal and not the material. We still need to
know about the
spacetimemattering of material practices. Sustainable management
is also about
time, space and matter. And the metaphor of being grounded with
the different
life processes spinning around is probably because we can
illuminate the
misalignment between corporate practices—finance, production,
resourse use,
product life cycles, water, air and so forth—and Gaia cycles of
life. In these
means, we use material
storytelling
to map these relations in a three-dimensional way and to make the
move from the
personal to the material and collective.
Finally politics refers to the organization of the collective spaces in which managers and other change
agents can
make alliances and make things happen. Itis important to consider
both standing
gaialogical spaces between private, public and plural sectors of
society and
spaces within organizations. Here we are talking about
institutionalizing and
initiating changes. Arendt’s terms the public space and the space
of appearance
is of course important here because it denotes a space that is
common for us
all and is thus a space where we handle what is common for us all.
What is it
that we have most in common other than Gaia.
The water we drink, the air that we breathe, the life that we all
depend on and
so forth. We cannot leave that responsibility to companies or to
politicians as
we have seen in the Trump case and Scott Morrison case.
Tentative program for Gaia Storytelling Conversations:
Wednesday 15th |
Thursday 16th |
Friday 17th |
Saturday 18th |
Meeting at
around lunch time. Lunch and introduction to the program.
(for whoever has booked a Session Bodywhispering comes
from seven o’clock on in one-hour-rhythm) (5h) Walking tour
in the city combined with protrepsis. Summary of
protrepsis. Princess
Gaia reads… The
difference between Gaia and the Globa (presentation and
discussion) Dinner in
the city |
7.00-9.00
meditation, yoga and breakfast 9-12. Introduction
to storytelling and the true storytelling model Identification
of specific problems that participants want to work with. 12-13. lunch 13-16:
personal rework, organized around principle 1 in true
storytelling model. Gaia
storytelling 16-18: Body
whispering… (eventually
this could be done in parallel to the sessions). à
I would do Body-Whispering from 13-18 on both days. (5h) Dinner in
the city |
7.00-9.00
meditation, yoga and breakfast 9-12. Material
storytelling: the tensions between material practices of
organizations and the life processes of Gaia. 11-12.
Summary: where to work with organizational strategies. 12-13. Lunch 13-16: True
storytelling: rework strategies Principles
2, 3 and 4. 16-18
discussion and body whispering exercises…. Dinner in
the city… |
7.00-9.00
meditation, yoga and breakfast 9-11.30: Creating the
spaces for action… True
storytelling principles 5 and 6… 11.30-13.00:
Evaluation:
true storytelling principle 7. If I do
Body-Whispering after 13 until 18 again, we have another
5h (that makes 20 Participants) |