Join the System Composter for a live conversation with Sophy Banks and Yin Paradies, inviting an inquiry around the why and how of our prevalent systems of oppression with their unhealthy structures, the consequences and causes of colonisation. And the what and how of decolonised, healthy paths and strategies forward. Are they needed? And who needs them?
Sophy Banks is a systems explorer. Her eclectic life has seen her as a therapist, family constellator, radical footballer, environmental activist, engineer, grief tender, teacher... and more. Sophy is deeply committed to seeing how human systems work, linking understandings from neuroscience and trauma work with concepts of power and oppression, group dynamics and processes of change. She spent 10 years holding the inner dimension at the centre of the Transition movement, giving workshops in this model for growing community resilience to groups around the world. Her lifetime questions include things like - "How can we create healthy cultures, and why do we often not? What does our relationship to grief and healing have to do with whether we co-create cultures of regeneration or harm?" Sophy lives in Devon, UK, where she grows as much food as she can and still just about gets up the hills on her bike.
More about Sophy: https://grieftending.org/
Yin Paradies is a Wakaya man and Professor of Race Relations at Deakin University, teaching and researching on (anti-)racism, Indigenous knowledges, and decoloniality. He is an embodied climate and ecological activist who is committed to understanding and interrupting the devastating impacts of modern societies. He seeks meaningful mutuality of being in kinship with all life through transformed ways of perceiving, relating and becoming that are grounded in wisdom, humility, respect and generosity. He lives in one of Australia’s oldest intentional communities, cultivating a closer connection to Country and engaging in an ethos of down-shifted collective sufficiency, voluntary simplicity, frugality, direct democracy and radical localisation.
Yin's upcoming workshop in Now What?! Please register here.
And Yin's full workshop here.
The intended flow will include about half an hour of open questions and discussion. You can submit questions in advance, or ask me anything regarding this session by email: dita.vizoso@gmail.com
In an effort to engage with the gift economy, we are inviting all participants who feel willing and able, to donate. Your contributions will support our work towards healthier human cultures and a local climate-change food-growing group.
We also invite participants to note what it felt like to engage in this way - what came up for you?
You can donate here: https://PayPal.Me/DitaViz
And participate in Now What?! multifaceted Gift Economy here: https://www.nowwhat2021.com/gift-economy
You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/EMzDafSLBRo
Photo and wheelbarrowing by Dita B Vizoso at Leewood Rewilding Area, April 2019