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New Year 2023

The year completes herself, “I’m done now.” The New Year comes to take over our world, to enter our bodies and minds. She might pop up over the hill, singing, Or she emerges gently through parting clouds, She might stride down Main Street announcing herself, We never know who she is, what she...

poetry

Deep Live Gathering 2022. Connection and disconnection experiences

Announcement of the 2022 Deep Live Gathering Autumn 2022. For the second time different people and circles around the world were gathered in order to connect and disconnect from each other in physical, virtual and spiritual spaces during the inter-local Deep Live Gathering. This report...

“Unaware (Unconscious) Violence, and the Seeds of In-action”: Reflections from the Deep Live Gathering 2022 in Montenegro

Thanks to the Deep Adaptation Forum, and in particular Igor Polsky, I was able to personally participate in the Deep Live Gathering 2022 event in Montenegro. Here I share a few reflections from the 4-day gathering. Earth Ceremony Our ‘Earth Ceremony’ was held on Sunday morning...

DeepLive, electriclights, insectapocalypse, lifestyle, Montenegro, Nonviolence

Four lessons for the world from Dominica on our 44th Independence Anniversary

Our island of Dominica is part of the most complex and connected global civilization in history. Humanity moves billions of dollars of goods and services around the world every day, while war, climate disasters, eco-systems breakdown, and pandemics are becoming increasingly disruptive to our...

Community, resilience

DAF News: Sept-Nov 2022

Hello, and welcome to a brief summary of what we’ve been up to at the Deep Adaptation Forum in the past few months. We plan to share this update periodically, as a ‘window’ into what’s been going on in the Forum for those who may not be active members on any of our...

Community, CoreTeam, DAF, Forum, InsideDAF, NewDAFSpace, Q422, Volunteers

Deep Adaptation in local communities

by Alan Heeks Two of my current crumbs of comfort are a sense that many more people now recognise that we’re in a crisis, and that I hear the need for adaptation being widely accepted. Whilst I used to get annoyed that newer crises were distracting from the climate emergency, I now feel...

local communities

here with dirt beneath my nails, by Lorna Reay

Here with dirt beneath my nailsand sweat upon my heated brow,the sweetness of the Earth assailsmy senses with the sense of Now. And something in my heart eruptsand brings a tear into my eye –how dazzling, shaking and abruptthe knowledge that this person ‘I’is vaster than the...

poetry

Falling into Place

“When I can no longer rise to the occasion, I find I can fall into place.” by Sarah-Jane Menato After an extended five year cycle of personal loss and bereavement, I came to a point where I could no longer rise to the occasion. Unexpectedly, I found I fell into place. As inner and outer...

inner work, loss, relinquishment

Anthropocene lullaby

A film poem by Janet Lees Janet Lees is a UK-based poet and lens-based artist, and voluntary poetry editor* for the Deep Adaptation Forum blog. In one way or another, all her work touches on what it feels like to be human in these unprecedented times. Her poetry has been published...

poetry

One-Minute Practice: What’s Not Wrong?

by Constance Clare-Newman This is a practice I use when I notice that I am spiraling into negative thinking,tension or despair from seeing and hearing about terrible changes and suffering of people, animals and the natural world. It is a practice that I think prepares me to embody loving...

embodiment, resilience