Resilience Study Group 1

Gaian Mind Institute and Evolver LA Present:
Weekly Saturday Resilience Study Group starting February 12th

The Gaian Mind Institute (located at 3201 Maple Ave. LA 90011) will be hosting a collaborative weekly Saturday vegan potluck and Resilience Study Group with Evolver LA from 2pm-5pm to hold space for the community to work on research, planning, and practical survival skill building projects. From 5pm to 7pm we'll be drumming and psytrance dancing to heal
and restore the balance of masculine and feminine energies
on Earth and free the spirit from ego by burning away
apocalyptic anxieties in the fire of transcedental bliss!

During the first group session Gaian Mind Institute (GMI) founder/director Ben Lawson will give a brief presentation to introduce the Modern Survivalism movement and provide an overview of the Disaster Preparedness Workbook that GMI has developed to assist individuals, families, and groups in their efforts to become more resilient in response to disaster/emergency situations of all types and scales.

Baza Novic of Evolver LA will give a intro presentation on how the Evolver Social Movement is one of many groups co-creating an inclusive, regenerative and supportive new story for those members of humanity who recognize we share this planet, by generating conditions for resilient social and personal ecosystem to emerge, converge, share and act.

He will also be facilitating grounding/centering meditations to open and close the session in effort to help the group cultivate inner peace, awareness, connectedness, and mental preparedness.

Following the presentations we'll open up a group discussion with the goal of listing topics of interest that we'll then have on queue as study topics for future sessions. Ongoing the study group will be a loosely formatted so that those with passion for a topic can feel free to facilitate building a session around it, recommend homework, etc. Attendance is often in flux, so rather than plan out months of preset topics, we'll dynamically create/announce the upcoming week's topic on a weekly basis as determined by the interest/energy of the given group. This flexibility will also allow for the scheduling of workshops and presentations by various masters/practicianers/instructors in our community at their convenience. In other words, the default study group topic list will be able to pause and resume to accommodate guest presenters. A few professional presentations we have commitments on are: Herbal First Aid, DIY Natural Womens' Sexual and Reproductive Health, Womens’ Self-Defense, Intro to Permaculture, and Knitting.

Attendees will be invited to join in optional session closing summary/debriefing discussions on what was learned which will be recorded and published as regular segments on www.PermaculturePodcast.org. Evolver LA will also invite presenters/attendees to be interviewed for blogs, and other social media outlets to expand the reach and increase the social value of the study group.

For more info contact:

Gaian Mind Institute
www.Gaian-Mind.org
info@gaian-mind.org
818-275-1094

Evolver Los Angeles
Supporting Creative Community Building in Los Angeles
http://www.evolver.net/group/los_angeles_evolvers
evolverlosangeles@gmail.com
PO Box 461431
West Hollywood, CA
90046