PARTICIPANT APPLICATION

Welcome :)

We hope that this application will be a place of practice and resource for you, so we are asking you to engage it differently than the usual “filling something out.” We want to interrupt the way we can privilege logic and task-completion and instead rely upon reflection and intuition. We want this application process to be for you as much as it is for those who will read it. 

Begin by taking a moment — just for yourself. Have you done that yet today? (We hope so.) Do what your body needs to do in order to feel here — to remember yourself. 

Now, we invite you into a practice of presence and awareness: if you have space for it, please read the list below and then take 10, 15, 20 minutes (how long is good for you?) to simply let your senses sense — to attune to where you are, who you are, and how you are, right now. Find a place of relative comfort for this. If possible, consider going outside or being by a window. (*If you don’t have space for this now, consider returning to this application when you do.)

What sensations do you feel?

 

What colors or temperatures or sounds have your attention?

 

What else has your attention?

 

What is here with you, in this moment, that you are (were) not paying attention to?

 

Is there anything... even the smallest little thing... that is catching you? Enchanting you?

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Welcome back :)

 

Please offer 9 words to describe what you notice about your surroundings in this moment:

 

 

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Invoking Devotion

 

As we move into deeper layers of this process, consider how to make this application a devotional practice for yourself.

 

 

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Some questions

 

We recognize the intersections of power, privilege, oppression and positionality that each of us carry in different ways. Here’s some of our language and agreements around how we hold this evolving and complex conversation.

*NOTE: responses to the following questions have a character limit of 1000, which amounts to two brief paragraphs. We encourage you to find the heart and essence of your response to share here, trusting that there will be time to be with any longer response elicited by these questions during the course of the program, and throughout the course of our lives.

The ATTUNE immersion seeks to regenerate the wisdom of intuition alongside the development of tangible skills for living in and responding to the climate emergency. through immersive study centered in bird language, “auspicious attention”, ritual craft, tracking, wildtending, somatics, radical astrology and eco-social co-liberation, we will attune our bodies with the earth’s rhythms and languages, in remembrance, prayer and action as responsible members of these ecosystems.

This course is an invitation to attune our awareness beyond and beneath the malaise of what late-stage capitalism would have us focus on. It’s an invitation into practices that draw us towards the mystery of the inner and outer earth body (and the consciousness that unites them). Whether these are areas of familiarity or newness to you, we welcome you. This is the ground from which we will be moving.

We don’t know exactly what will happen, because we will be co-creating with the world around us, and the inner worlds of each who joins, but, we expect appearances from players like vulnerable intimacy; expanded awareness; the erotic; liberating with the land; mysticism; liminality; re-enchantment; play; humor; wyrdness; disorientation, reorientation.

Evoking other-than-mainstream consciousness* can be dangerous (though that is not a reason to avoid it). We see this as good, necessary danger. This terrain can also be exciting, liberating, wonder-full, and transformative. We take this all seriously, and we know the risks of being overly serious. As such, this work requires all involved to understand and consent to entering unknown terrain, to come with a willingness to engage, and to be personally responsible to yourself and your own practice.

 

*note that when we name "other-than-mainstream consciousness" we are not referring to the use of mind/body altering substances. The attune program is a drug and alcohol free space, as named in our faq's. rAther we are referring to the states of consciousness we can achieve when we dedicate our attention to our senses and to the natural world.

White supremacy, cis-hetero-patriarchy and colonization have distorted blackness, femininity, indigeneity, queerness, intuition, and magic into something dangerous. We seek to reclaim these and other identities as medicine, hosting them with radical hospitality at the center of this course. In our first session we’ll give some orientation and best practices around "spiritual hygiene" — because this work of touching into the level of spirit can stir up a lot for individuals and groups, we want to do all that we can to be prepared to encounter what arises well, and to take care of ourselves and each other throughout.

We continually strive to make our programs as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, and we want to know if you have any specific needs that would be important for WE staff to know before the program began. We also want to make sure that applicants know that the locations hosting us are rustic in nature and that we will be camping during the 3 Immersion gatherings. Bathrooms and showers may not always be available, though for the first and third immersions they will be. Some of the terrain is steep and we will be traversing dirt roads. Most will be vehicle accessible, so walking everywhere at all times isn't required, but we want to do our best to paint a picture of the terrain/accommodations so you can make an informed decision. 

thank you for taking the time to fill this application out! Once you submit, you will receive an email with information about next steps. If you haven't received that email within 24 hours, double check your spam folder and if it isn't there, please reach out to dave@weavingearth.org