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We offer Deep Rewilding; using 5Rhythms® movement meditation,
ancient bushcraft skills and nature connection as transformative practices.
Wild Heart is dedicated to bringing people into harmony, with themselves, each other and our living planet.
ancient bushcraft skills and nature connection as transformative practices.
Wild Heart is dedicated to bringing people into harmony, with themselves, each other and our living planet.
thrive virtual village for emergency preparedness
28 & 29 March 2020
Gigi's open letter in response to the global coronavirus crisis, inviting participation to Thrive Emergency Preparedness online village.
Hi everyone. For those of you who are thinking this way... Let's talk solutions. Let's talk skills. Let's talk resilience. Let's look at how we can all prepare for transition times, together.
We are in a situation Lee and I have been preparing for for at least a decade. And for me, the thing that makes this situation special, the thing we have been preparing for, balances on one simple quality that all humans tend to share.
Humans behave as if tomorrow will be just like today (give or take a little wiggle room) (but not much, really).
We. Think. Tomorrow. Will. Be. Just. Like. Today.
Our egos need to be able to 'know' what's coming so we can predict threats, so we can feel safe. We assemble our lives along trajectories of general safety. It's the way our society is set up. It's the way our supply chains are organised. It's the way our supermarkets are stocked and our kids are educated and our transport runs and our offices stay efficient.
The assumption that tomorrow is going to be pretty much like today.
Those of us who have danced through catastrophic life events have learned up close and personal that this is an illusion, but even that knowledge can fade when things 'go back to normal'. It becomes a glitch, a hiccup, and the tomorrows gradually revert to something moderately predictable.
Our need for 'normal' is a very very powerful force. It is a trance. It stops us from seeing things as they are, and instead we either overreact and go into full terror, or we see things as we want them to be.
If you look at systems (oh, I love systems), there is a point in any system where if the right pressures are brought to bear, cascade reactions and exponential curves happen. When there are exponential curves, what we see is this.
Tomorrow is not like today. And the next day is not like yesterday. And so on. We simply cannot predict tomorrow based on today, because things don't step up in static increments. They double, then that doubles, then that doubles. It's how cancer colonises bodies. It's why population has exploded on this planet. And that's before the chaos equations kick in, those beautiful mandebrot equations, and when they show up things go super wiggly.
We cannot predict tomorrow. Which is the scariest thing for a human ego. When this happens, we go into survival mode. We behave in new and unusual ways.
We are in a spectacular exponential curve, globally, right now. This has happened at various times in history, but the difference is that now we are truly a global village, so what affects one zone, affects all of them. That damned butterfly in China equals cyclones in Australia.
Whether it's a virus or bushfires or tidal waves or zombies doesn't really matter. What matters is that the vast percentage of humans have great skills for being with 'tomorrow is going to be like today', but very few have skills for 'tomorrow is an utter mystery.'
People start behaving from fear and reactivity and the panic also becomes exponential, which cleans out supermarkets which triggers more panic. With our current situation, right or wrong, social isolation is the measure being used to try to bring tomorrow back to today. And that has huge impacts on our way of life, not just for the next month, but forever. Those impacts are also playing out exponentially. Situations are changing very very fast.
Tomorrow just got weird. Very very weird.
The good news is that there are a bunch of people all over the planet who have been preparing and training for this kind of thing for a long time. You will have some of them near you.
Lee and I have been running rewilding camps and programmes helping people skill up for transition times. We've been holding vision quests and survival quests. We've taught nature connection programmes. We've taught ancestral survival skills to kids and adults. We've specialised in trauma healing. We've dived into social technologies and community building, not as theories, but as viable practices. This isn't about who can make fire by rubbing sticks together or make a shelter in the rain or know which plants you can eat, although these hard skills are part of the overall picture.
This is also about internal rewilding. How are we with anxiety? How are we with despair? How do we create functional communities? How do we heal our stories to see capital R Reality instead of only seeing our projections? How do we make decisions in our family and community groups? How do we move through the environment is a group safely? How do we share resources? How do we start to predict trajectories of disaster? How do we look after each other, no matter what? How do we plan for short term and long term emergencies?
The Bluegum Bushcraft curriculum covers all the physical skills of shelter water fire and food, and the internal skills that mirror these. We look at short term survival and long term sur-thrival. We look at urban questions and wilderness options.
We want to invite you to our online global village where we start to teach this material in one day workshops. Each workshop is a stand alone, and together they build into a solid bank of practical wisdom. We make a community together working on these skills. There are ongoing calls for connection.
The launch weekend is Sat 28 and Sun 29 March. Each day-long workshop is $75 per adult. We will be giving an overview of the whole curriculum and starting to drill into individual skills of internal and external rewilding or short and long term sur-thrival. Then every 2-3 weeks we will have another workshop, specialising in an internal and external skill.
Our aim is to help you prepare for anything. Our aim is to foster your resilience, instincts, improve your skillset and get you thinking outside the box. Where it doesn't matter what tomorrow looks like, the skills you have today are more than enough for you to dance with confidence. Our aim is also to connect you with other like minded folk in your physical area, so you can make real connections, prepare together, support each other. Build a village made of many villages.
The Saturday night will have an extra call which is the village gathering, where all the kids are invited, and we all get to share stories, and Lee tells his amazing stories around our virtual campfire.
So, loves... if you are interested, jump aboard. Here's the link to the facebook eventpage,
https://www.facebook.com/events/495331671160243/
or follow the link below to the website page
https://www.bluegumbushcraft.com.au/thrive-online-village.html
If you know anyone who might want to be part off the online village, please tag and share. We can't wait to see you all, and are so so grateful to live in times where we can all connect over the virtual airwaves and learn and grow together.
Big love to you all, as always,
Gigi xxx
Hi everyone. For those of you who are thinking this way... Let's talk solutions. Let's talk skills. Let's talk resilience. Let's look at how we can all prepare for transition times, together.
We are in a situation Lee and I have been preparing for for at least a decade. And for me, the thing that makes this situation special, the thing we have been preparing for, balances on one simple quality that all humans tend to share.
Humans behave as if tomorrow will be just like today (give or take a little wiggle room) (but not much, really).
We. Think. Tomorrow. Will. Be. Just. Like. Today.
Our egos need to be able to 'know' what's coming so we can predict threats, so we can feel safe. We assemble our lives along trajectories of general safety. It's the way our society is set up. It's the way our supply chains are organised. It's the way our supermarkets are stocked and our kids are educated and our transport runs and our offices stay efficient.
The assumption that tomorrow is going to be pretty much like today.
Those of us who have danced through catastrophic life events have learned up close and personal that this is an illusion, but even that knowledge can fade when things 'go back to normal'. It becomes a glitch, a hiccup, and the tomorrows gradually revert to something moderately predictable.
Our need for 'normal' is a very very powerful force. It is a trance. It stops us from seeing things as they are, and instead we either overreact and go into full terror, or we see things as we want them to be.
If you look at systems (oh, I love systems), there is a point in any system where if the right pressures are brought to bear, cascade reactions and exponential curves happen. When there are exponential curves, what we see is this.
Tomorrow is not like today. And the next day is not like yesterday. And so on. We simply cannot predict tomorrow based on today, because things don't step up in static increments. They double, then that doubles, then that doubles. It's how cancer colonises bodies. It's why population has exploded on this planet. And that's before the chaos equations kick in, those beautiful mandebrot equations, and when they show up things go super wiggly.
We cannot predict tomorrow. Which is the scariest thing for a human ego. When this happens, we go into survival mode. We behave in new and unusual ways.
We are in a spectacular exponential curve, globally, right now. This has happened at various times in history, but the difference is that now we are truly a global village, so what affects one zone, affects all of them. That damned butterfly in China equals cyclones in Australia.
Whether it's a virus or bushfires or tidal waves or zombies doesn't really matter. What matters is that the vast percentage of humans have great skills for being with 'tomorrow is going to be like today', but very few have skills for 'tomorrow is an utter mystery.'
People start behaving from fear and reactivity and the panic also becomes exponential, which cleans out supermarkets which triggers more panic. With our current situation, right or wrong, social isolation is the measure being used to try to bring tomorrow back to today. And that has huge impacts on our way of life, not just for the next month, but forever. Those impacts are also playing out exponentially. Situations are changing very very fast.
Tomorrow just got weird. Very very weird.
The good news is that there are a bunch of people all over the planet who have been preparing and training for this kind of thing for a long time. You will have some of them near you.
Lee and I have been running rewilding camps and programmes helping people skill up for transition times. We've been holding vision quests and survival quests. We've taught nature connection programmes. We've taught ancestral survival skills to kids and adults. We've specialised in trauma healing. We've dived into social technologies and community building, not as theories, but as viable practices. This isn't about who can make fire by rubbing sticks together or make a shelter in the rain or know which plants you can eat, although these hard skills are part of the overall picture.
This is also about internal rewilding. How are we with anxiety? How are we with despair? How do we create functional communities? How do we heal our stories to see capital R Reality instead of only seeing our projections? How do we make decisions in our family and community groups? How do we move through the environment is a group safely? How do we share resources? How do we start to predict trajectories of disaster? How do we look after each other, no matter what? How do we plan for short term and long term emergencies?
The Bluegum Bushcraft curriculum covers all the physical skills of shelter water fire and food, and the internal skills that mirror these. We look at short term survival and long term sur-thrival. We look at urban questions and wilderness options.
We want to invite you to our online global village where we start to teach this material in one day workshops. Each workshop is a stand alone, and together they build into a solid bank of practical wisdom. We make a community together working on these skills. There are ongoing calls for connection.
The launch weekend is Sat 28 and Sun 29 March. Each day-long workshop is $75 per adult. We will be giving an overview of the whole curriculum and starting to drill into individual skills of internal and external rewilding or short and long term sur-thrival. Then every 2-3 weeks we will have another workshop, specialising in an internal and external skill.
Our aim is to help you prepare for anything. Our aim is to foster your resilience, instincts, improve your skillset and get you thinking outside the box. Where it doesn't matter what tomorrow looks like, the skills you have today are more than enough for you to dance with confidence. Our aim is also to connect you with other like minded folk in your physical area, so you can make real connections, prepare together, support each other. Build a village made of many villages.
The Saturday night will have an extra call which is the village gathering, where all the kids are invited, and we all get to share stories, and Lee tells his amazing stories around our virtual campfire.
So, loves... if you are interested, jump aboard. Here's the link to the facebook eventpage,
https://www.facebook.com/events/495331671160243/
or follow the link below to the website page
https://www.bluegumbushcraft.com.au/thrive-online-village.html
If you know anyone who might want to be part off the online village, please tag and share. We can't wait to see you all, and are so so grateful to live in times where we can all connect over the virtual airwaves and learn and grow together.
Big love to you all, as always,
Gigi xxx