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About this Event
Upcoming Sessions
GAIA is an impromptu global infrastructure, offered by the Presencing Institute in light of the Covid-19 pandemic for sense-making, for leaning into our current moment of disruption, and letting this moment move us toward civilizational renewal. This is a 14-week journey with an online platform to connect (to be shared soon) and calls to co-sense together.
- Spanish speakers - sign up for sessions here.
- Portuguese speakers - sign up for sessions here.
- French speakers - sign up for sessions here (alternate dates!)
- German speakers - sign up for sessions here (alternate dates!)
- Dutch speakers - sign up for sessions here (alternate dates!)
- Japanese speakers - sign up for sessions here (alternate dates!)
Leading up to the July 10-11 virtual Global Forum, GAIA will practice a collective "inhale and exhale" together. On the "inhale" weeks, we will meet together virtually as a global community, with co-sensing conversations and hearing from inspirational guests. On the "exhale" weeks, you will meet together with your communities in the ways that work best for you, with an iterative framework we will share during the global community conversations. More info below...
For session times, use this world clock to convert to your timezone.
Framing & Description
Covid-19, like any disruption, essentially confronts each of us with a choice: (1) to freeze, turn away from others, only care for ourselves, or (2) to turn toward others to support and comfort those who need help. That choice between acting from ego or acting from ecosystem awareness is one that we face every day, every hour, every moment. The more the world sinks into chaos, desperation, and confusion, the greater our responsibility to radiate presence, compassion, and grounded action confidence.
GAIA offers a journey for change-makers, leaders, and citizens from all sectors, systems, and cultures — a journey that will culminate in a virtual Global Forum, multi-local and multi-regional, in July, co-created among the participants and focused on the transformation journey of the next decade.
The actual format of this journey will evolve with and adjust to the situation unfolding around us. GAIA's infrastructure invites you to join with your whole Self and is designed to be accessible to all, whether you join from home while in self-quarantine or in concert with friends and fellow change-makers in your local organization or community.
The time to pause, to sense, to connect, and to act together is now. Because no one can do this alone. By activating our capacity for deep listening, we support each other, co-sense what is actually going on in current reality and what is wanting to be born. GAIA can help us function as a collective organ of perception - a shared perceptive capacity we create together.
Over the next 14 weeks, we will co-activate a process of civilizational renewal, helping to:
- Re-imagine how we want to live and work together
- Re-invent our economies towards serving the wellbeing of all
- Evolve our democracies in ways that make them more direct and dialogic,
- And, re-shape our learning systems in ways that integrate head, heart, and hand.
Full Schedule
Month 1
Week One: March 27th inhale
- 10:00-11:30am EDT
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Week Two: April 3rd (social practice) exhale
Week Three: April 10th inhale
- 10:00-11:30am EDT
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Week Four: April 17th exhale
Month 2
Week Five: April 24th inhale
- 10:00-11:30am EDT
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Week Six: May 1st exhale
Week Seven: May 8th inhale
- 10:00-11:30am EDT - with
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Use this world clock to convert to your timezone.
Week Eight: May 15 exhale
Month 3 - emerging
Week Nine: May 22 inhale
- 10:00-11:30am EDT
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Week Ten: May 29 exhale
Week Eleven: June 5 inhale
- 10:00-11:30am EDT
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Week Twelve: June 12 exhale
Month 4 - move towards Forum
Week Thirteen: June 19
- 10:00-11:30am EDT
- 12:00-1.30pm EDT
- 2:00 - 3:30pm EDT in Spanish
- 4:00-5.30pm EDT in Portuguese
- 8-9.30pm EDT
Week Fourteen: June 26 exhale
July 10-11: Global Forum: From Ego to Eco 2030