Home Again...
On March 16th, 2010, the Beyond Boundaries team touched down on U.S. soil after 286 days since departure. We were welcomed by Chumash Leaders, Mati Waya and Luhui of the Wishtoyo Foundation on the grounds of an ancient Chumash village site in Malibu, a poignant and moving return for the group. Thus began the process of incorporation and adjusting to being "home". We walk with many questions
~ What does "home" mean?
~ How will each of us go back to the familiar and go forward into the unknown?
~ How do we live in integrity with all that we have learned and the values that have shifted or grown in each of us?
~ How can we continue to share this journey with our communities, our supporters and any and all we meet?
The following weeks have been spent attending to these questions, while pouring through all of the stories, information, observations, recordings, images, writings, and memories from the journey; no small task, and one that will take a lifetime to process completely. We have, however, just completed a report that will start to illuminate what we witnessed and learned so that we might continue to share the journey in a new way.
What is happening NOW? (updated 10/18/10)
The journey began when we all said yes and then came together for a month in the Owens Valley Calif on June 7, 2009. Our intention is to finish the first phase of incorporation by completing our work on the reports promised by June this year 2010…thus making a year-long pilgrimage.
If you're interested in a copy of the report once done feel free to contact us at gigicoyle[at]earthlink.net
We will also post different presentations and events each of us will be offering in our homelands.
We will keep this web site for at least 6 more months and see what else arises as part of our completion.
To see images from the journey, click here (hyperlink to Photos page here).
To learn more about how Beyond Boundaries began and the intentions for the trip, read on.
The Inspiration
In 1980, Gigi Coyle, team leader and visionary behind Beyond Boundaries, was inspired to embark on a year-long walkabout, traveling to projects and communities in the U.S. researching what were then considered ‘alternative’ systems, meeting and learning with
individuals and groups committed to sustainable living practices and the
healing of self, others, and the planet. This journey seeded Gigi’s life work including projects in international citizen diplomacy,
council leadership and training and working as a vision quest guide and trainer
for the Ojai Foundation and School of Lost Borders. Today, Gigi is called to pilgrimage again, to connect many
of the people and places pioneering alternative design systems that can offer
us viable choices as we go forward as a global community. Based on years of accumulated relationships
with individuals and organizations all over the globe, Gigi has developed
Beyond Boundaries, inviting a small intergenerational group to
join her on this international pilgrimage.
