BIONEERS FEMINOMICS 2014

COLLABORATORY NOTES TAKEN BY ANNEKE CAMPBELL

SESSION 1 -- WITH ALISA GRAVITZ

What is invitation: Everyone has a meaningful voice in the context for a new economy.

We went around the room and introduced ourselves, and in our introductory story, a lot of grief and trauma emerged . . we are in touch with it . . our voice is connected to our grief . . start reflecting on how that grief not expressed doesn't get healed or transformed and un turn creates more ills . . part of the “get on with it” culture . . . part of population has PTSD . .

The way in which Nicki told her story could be used by other groups . . we asked: why was she so effective, what made her voice so powerful and resonant? Are there story telling techniques we can all learn?

Each of us telling our story . . going beyond our own story . . including the other . . oppression all around us . . trauma and then the horror of what’s going on in our natural world . . huge sense of disconnect . . grief . . use the pain and grief we’re experienced to cross over into other cultures . . work on ourselves so we don’t have anger . . how to network . . learning how to tell our story . . allowed us all to be related . . through practice we learn the details that are most effective . . "take aways" are important .. are what move story forward . .

Center for story based strategy: the narrative that supports the movement . . sharing creates a sense of power . . it redefines where the power is . . from hierarchy to where it’s spoken . . We should ask each other: what is a narrative you are trying to change .. what underlying assumptions within that story can you use your own story to challenge and dispel . .

To do this well is a matter of practice . .

Summing up: to shift towards an economy in the service of life:

n here wounds and resulting grief bring about healing instead of separation n From stories that correct or oppress to stories that connect n to move away from the breakdown and isolation caused by trauma, we resource

ourselves, in supportive networks . . n From fragmented lives to integrated lives. . from my story to our story n We learning story telling skills to connect and build networks, use those stories to

dispel assumptions of the narrative we want to change.

Organizations: Center for story based strategy and Million person project

SESSION 2: WITH DONNA MORTON

How do we shift to an economy in service to life . .Who are we? What comes up for us? We sat in a circle and each of about 25 people spoke up to answer Donna's question:

• Money • Plants passions • How to empower girls and women • Economics in college was insane – radical change • Deal with relationship with money in psychotherapy . . break taboo • Emotional Currency • Respect all life • Life is a generative force that generates life: economy that moves towards that • Ecology is economy • Permaculture . . leading edge of thousand year economy . . we can recover . . • As women we must learn to lead from our diaphragms • Antidote to economy being distasteful, it needs to be about what we love and what

we value • Random kindness and senseless acts of beauty is her book . . generosity. • Our antidote to consumption is creation and beauty . . • Cambodian grandmothers kept their people alive when there was no currency • Marxist economics professor made her love economics . nature disrupts towards

life . . • Don’t know shit . . work with Hazel Henderson to work with Janine Benyus • Work with kids to incorporate permaculture into children’s world – redefining

wealth . . • Nature is basis of creativity . . move through this transition with grace . . • Here to learn . . I know what I long for and that's justice . . • Eco-credit – private social investment . . local lending . . coop to refinance student

debt . . • Ask what would be a good death . . for corporation, for non-profit, and for us

personally . . because what drives the drive the imperative for growth is the denial of death

• We are all economists . . • Do I belong here? Given everything away . . poorest people in the world are the

spiritual basket of the world • Here to learn about fabulous new word Feminomics . . here to contribute . . • Women on the frontline, in the indigenous tent, the grief of that • A new economic paradigm . . exciting and different picture from 15 years ago . .

Environmental education in • Mongolia • We’re all super-connected . . mama earth . . magical action .. patterns of design . .

sacred power of the seeds . . • Renegade . . Self invested in myself to learn an earth wisdom tradition . . • Harvesting hearing people’s voices . . passionate about how we manifest from the

ultimate textbook of economy which is the earth itself . . biomimicry . . • Listening for the best way to join the resources I have to evolve an economy that

makes sense . . Re-balance the way I’m doing it . .

Donna: what I hear is that to move to an economy in service to life are two big thought clusters . .

First: This is not for me . . I’m not a “finance” person . . economics distasteful, system of destruction . . A profound grief in that and pushing through fear and death . .

Second: On the other side of claiming this space of grief . . is all those things we love . . our library is wild places . . regeneration, beauty, creativity, permaculture and biomimicry.

We're on the edge of next thousand years.

We give ourselves permission to invite ourselves . . now we can be powerful inviters . . process we used to overcome our fear or money and economy . . that knowledge we hold is what we can share . . how do we support each other’s vision, living the love and connection . .

Story: Indigenous group of women didn’t know how to stop the mining, but they planted themselves there where the mine was to be built and practiced their. traditional weaving . . . . they were able to keep miners out . . the medicine for our time . . the notion of being a collaborator with earth, with the seen and the unseen, we have notion we don’t know how to do that but we do know how . . it begins with ceremony, valuing self and prayer.

Chief Oren Lyons said: we begin with prayer and we end with prayer . . a leap in our wisdom occurs . . encourages us to engage in life that way . . relational . .

The Dragons in this cave of finance . . you have to do both, do ceremony and work your altar . . when you touch money, you need to go in knowing the power of money, it doesn’t have to eat you . . how do you ride that dragon . .

WITH ONE VOICE: documentary of mystics around the world . . they all said consistent daily practice . . meditation, singing, weaving, ritual . . sing in the shower . . whatever it is that connects you to that which is greater.