June 2022 Recovering Attention for Eco-Social Co-Liberation
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Weaving Earth’s educational pedagogy critically engages inherited stories of separation and domination, while also responsibly recollecting a deeper human inheritance: stories of interrelationship, belonging, dignity and respect. In this experiential session, we will engage in practices and dialogue that nurture a felt sense of interrelationship with the living planet. With an emphasis on practices that nurture the regeneration of intuition, this session seeks to instigate a community of practice centered in enchantment, “attention liberation” (adrienne maree brown), and eco-social repair.
Weaving Earth (www.weavingearth.org)
Lauren Hage (she/her) is Executive Director and co-founder of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, an educational nonprofit that encourages the study and practice of "Earth Intimacy", "Co-Liberation", "Embodiment" and "Prayerful Action" as key approaches for addressing the social and ecological crises of our times (weavingearth.org).
She comes from Ashkenazi Jewish (Odessa), Sicilian, and Scottish ancestry. As an educator, consultant, ecological designer, and creative, Lauren is dedicated to supporting people to pursue their passions and shape their actions from a foundation rooted in interrelationship.
She is also deeply committed to honoring the cycles of menstruation as a prayer for healing. With attention to enchantment and intuition at the heart of her praxis, Lauren's work and play is an expression of her prayer for eco-social co-liberation.
brontë’s work and rest is guided by the call that “black wellness is the antithesis to state violence” (Mark Anthony Johnson). As a black-latinx transdisciplinary artist, curator, trickster, educator and wakeworker, their eco-social art praxis lives at the intersections of black feminist placemaking, abolitionist theologies, environmental regeneration and death doulaship.
They embody this commitment of attending to black health/imagination, commemorative justice (Free Egunfemi) and hospicing the shit that hurts black folks and the land through serving as creative director for Lead to Life design collective and ecological educator for ancestral arts skills and nature-connection school Weaving Earth. They are currently co-conjuring a mockumentary with Esperanza Spalding in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony and caring for/being cared for by land with their partner in unceded Kashia Pomo territory in northern California. Mostly, brontë is up to the sweet tender rhythm of quotidian black queer-lifemaking, ever-committed to humor & liberation, ever-marked by grief at the distance made between us and all of life.
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