Tag: Community

the gift of the word

[ best results if read aloud, with an occasional rush of words, or have someone else read, and listen only ] Speech, / Words, letters, sounds, / heard by both the inner ear and the outer. Letters, sounds, words, / linked invisibly to ideas and thoughts. Ideas, thoughts, letters, sounds,...

#poetry, communication, Community, consciousness, inspiration

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 globalized...

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 several...

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

Which Column are you in?

by Kimberley Hare This graphic was created by HEART Community Group primarily as a conversation-starter, and we often use it when engaging with individuals, groups, and local authorities (our work is in the UK). The tool arose from seeing other peoples’ work on this kind of analysis, including...

collapse awareness, communication, Community, local government

How adaptive networks and hamlets can help future resilience

by Alan Heeks There’s a widespread view that strengthening local communities will be crucial in the years ahead, to help us all to live with increasing levels of disruption, e.g. to food supplies, utilities, weather patterns, and probably social cohesion. During a recent pilgrimage walk...

Community, resilience

A ‘New DAF Space’

.... we’ll be introducing new software and better website functions, to better enable us to connect with each other, foster mutual support and collaborate as we face societal collapse.

Community, connections, New DAF Space, platform

Weaving new connections as we journey together, locally and globally

Between October 21 and 27, 2021, an experimental multi-local event took place, online and in several places around the world: the Deep Live Gathering. Initiated and organised by a team of DAF volunteers, this event involved gatherings convened in-person, as well as online workshops and spaces for...

Community, Deep Live Gathering, in-person meetings

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