What kinds of topics do we picnic on?
The topics of our living room picnics are listed below. It all started with Maintenance Art, which I discovered while reading How to Do Nothing, Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. Soon after, we explored the principles of Emergent Strategy, Shaping change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown. And then we wandered on from there, and back to emergent strategy, and into some emotions, a grief ceremony…it was kind of a spiral-shaped path.
Living room picnic topics from Feb 2021 — Jun 2022
- Maintenance Art
- Taking on other people’s energy
- Personal landscapes
- Places that shaped you
- describing yourself to the world
- Small is good.
- Small is all.
- Change is constant.
- There is always enough time for the right work.
- There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this time can have.
- There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this time can have.
- Never a failure, always a lesson.
- Trust the People. (If you trust the people, they become trustworthy).
- Facilitating Complexity + Social Fertility free form picnic
- Cultivating resilience.
- Move at the speed of trust. Focus on critical connections more than critical mass—build the resilience by building the relationships.
- Less prep, more presence.
- What you pay attention to grows.
- Making friends and other relationships we make online
- The soil you came from.
- Conversations you don’t get to have.
- …faith not only in the power of other people but…
- life experiments — artistic and otherwise
- arriving happens over time
- loving your tree
- the durability of sexual harassment
- it’s essential that we do nothing
- inalienable rights
- our bodies our world
- when is it ok to ask for help?
- different core needs
- leave the castle
- I feel blue
- in defense of browsing
- what are your signs?
- how will you know that I’m listening?
- setbacks happen
- finding personal quiet
- the soil you come from
- neighborhood stories
- resistance in place
- the commute to work in your mindbody
- the long way home
- how are you? how do you know?
- the purpose of fractals
- how we recover
- what is easy is sustainable
- embrace y/our complexity: be seen
- embrace y/our complexity: be wrong
- embrace y/our complexity: accept my [your] inner multitudes
- embrace y/our complexity: ask for and receive what I [you] need
- annual celebration: the purpose of ceremony
- forgiveness
- grief ceremony
- emotions are like breathing
- overwhelmed? play is indicated
- anger is protective
- what feeling allows
- joy vs happiness
- sadness moves us toward each other
- which kind of empathy?
- conversation is not polite
- when you’re online, where is your body?
- activation + re-grounding
- curiosity is not a spectator sport
- what does like-minded mean and why do we seek it?
