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Deeper Change Events

CEIO's Deeper Change events create spaces that invite fundamental transformation. A change that is so deep that a return to the previous conditions is utterly inconceivable. Courageous conversations - grounded in peace, justice, and love.

Deeper Change Forums -- and our newest offering, Deeper Change Salons -- host speakers, artists and workshops to address and move us toward systemic change throughout our society, with an emphasis on New Haven. Events allow community members to hear from and learn with each other and with featured presenters who are working at root levels of for change. Topics have ranged from environmental justice to wellbeing, organizing to art as disrupting injustice.

Deeper Change Salons are evening gatherings that will center and bring in various wisdom from all of us as we are in the practice of creating the worlds we want to live in. We are excited to create this space as a structured ritual and gathering space to engage in ideas, inspirations, and connection. These will be in addition to our full day Deeper Change Forums.

 

Deeper Change Forums and Deeper Change Salons are open to all and offered freely. Registration is required for all events.

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JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT DEEPER CHANGE FORUM

PRACTICING THE FUTURE WITH MIA BIRDSONG 
OCTOBER 18TH @ 9:30AM - 3PM

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PRACTICING THE FUTURE

Featuring MIA BIRDSONG

When:
Friday, October 18, 2024 from 9:30am-3pm EST 
(Light breakfast & lunch will be served)


Where:
Whitneyville Cultural Commons
1253 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06513

Mia Birdsong is rewriting what it means to get free. Blending scholarship, journalism, and cultural meaning-making, she does critical work to reconnect us with forgotten wisdom and train our attention on the ideas and practices we need to live in the world we know is possible. With her eyes on the future, Mia has spent decades interrogating false ideas and proposing new visions of who and how we can be with each other. 
 

Author of How We Show Up and founding Executive Director of Next River, a think tank and culture change lab for interconnected freedom, Mia’s curiosity is contagious. Her research and writing, like the recent Freedom’s Revival: Research from the Headwaters of Liberation, redefine how we understand fundamental ideas like “freedom” and “community” and demand that we refocus our attention on the beauty and brilliance beyond the status quo. 

 

Mia puts the perspective of people experiencing oppression at the center of her work and reshapes our collective understanding of what’s true, whether in her podcast series More Than Enough to her TED talk on The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn’t True or her previous role as co-executive director of Family Story. 

Mia is rooting for everybody with a perspective deeply rooted in Black feminism, abolition, and disability justice. Mia is a Senior Fellow of the Economic Security Project and a Future Good Fellow at Institute For the Future. She was an inaugural Ascend Fellow of The Aspen Institute, and a New American California Fellow.​​

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INSPIRATION & WISDOM FROM PAST DEEPER CHANGE FORUM PRESENTERS

Seane Corn: We Must Practice Conscious Activism
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Wanderlust

Seane Corn: We Must Practice Conscious Activism

In this Wanderlust Speakeasy at Squaw Valley, internationally celebrated yoga teacher Seane Corn discusses her life as an activist and how she has gained perspective through her practice of yoga. Through her experience Corn has found activism unsustainable in its past and current forms, as it encourages a dynamic of non-communication: People shouting at each other, but not listening to each other. In this kind of interaction, we are expressing our outrage, fear, and anger—but we are not owning them. “We are here to learn what love is. Part of the journey of learning what love is is seemingly its opposite—learning what love is not. To understand the light, we must also understand the shadow.” – Seane Corn Corn demonstrates the concept of conscious activism: A system of shared understanding and inclusive, supportive communication. This, she states, is the very core of yoga, and our job as yogis is to change the old approach to activism by consciously engaging with the world through our decisions, actions, spending, and politics. In this Speakeasy, Corn also discusses: Gross versus subtle energies and how they manifest in the body. How the injustices in the world are reflected in our own lives, and how to change them. Why it's important to connect with each other as allies. How learning empathy is a true path to oneness. “If we really want to believe that all is one, make it so. Heal your relationships. Look back on your life, look at your narratives. Forgive. Forgive yourself for thinking you should have known better, forgive them for thinking they should have known better.” – Seane Corn For more information, visit her website (http://www.seanecorn.com/). Presented by Omega (https://www.eomega.org/) -- Produced by Wanderlust Festival (http://wanderlust.com) Filmed by: Circus Picnic (http://circuspicnic.com/)) Edited by: Start Motion Media (http://startmotionmedia.com) Filmed at Wanderlust Squaw Valley 2015 Accompanying text by Kristin Diversi

All Past Presenters

Niyonu Spann - Dr. Joy DeGruy - Ruby Sales - Seane Corn - Climbing PoeTree - Leah & Naima Penniman - Lisa Graustein - Enroue Halfkenny - Charles Eisenstein - Jerry White - Barbara Tinney - George Penick -  Caitlin Breedlove - Ricardo Levins-Morales - Akaya Windwood - David Mura - Shakti Butler - Rusia Muhiuddin - Dr. Darya Funches - Aaron Jafferis - Lara Herscovitch - Hanifa Nayo Washington - JSUN - Terrence Riggins - New Haven (Be)Longing Choir - 2019 Dream & Activation Cohort (Katie Jones - Eric Rey - Thema Haida - Rachel Liu - Hillary Bridges - Raven Blake - Isha Vela - Robert Sheiman - Ro Godwyn - Finn Henry) - Seeding Conscious Co-Creation Cohort (Aspiring Abolitionists, Aligned to Thrive, Mending Minyan, Kurudi Watu, Imagining Abolition, RingShout:New Haven, Rising Rooted: Bloodroot, Seeds and Sprouts, Str8OuttaEden)  - Nalo A.K. Zidan - Winona LaDuke - Dr. Jamila Lyiscott

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