If the timing of the live sessions does not work for you we are also offering an online gathering, hosted by Katherina or yanae from NGL, to watch the recording together, talk about it, engage with questions and do the breakout activities in small groups (we call that a watch party).
Every other Monday, after each session
at 12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time
(find your local time here)
Note: Due to time changes happening in these weeks your local time might shift. See below for the time conversion for each session.
If you want to join the watch party, please register for the course here and indicate that you plan to attend the watch party where we ask for it.
Curious, but want to give it a try before registering for the full first course? You are welcome to sign up for the first session without any commitment.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
What do we mean by “trust in life” and how has it been impacted through the rise of patriarchy? Through patriarchal conditioning and socialization we have gradually lost trust in life itself, in ourselves, each other, and communities. In this session we intend to explore what is a Liberation Pod and what we imagine they do together.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
What is the phenomenon of scarcity? What does it have to do with patriarchy and how we perceive and respond to the world? As part of our exploration, we intend to also look at what we call “scarcity thinking” and how this influences our decisions by limiting our creativity in finding strategies. What is the difference between scarcity and a natural limit? How does scarcity show up for each of us? We intend to offer a practice to co-hold “scarcity thinking” within Liberation Pods.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
What is the patriarchal conditioning that we call “catastrophic thinking”? How does this influence our capacity to engage in the gift economy and how we understand and respond to the world around us? What does this phenomenon look like within ourselves? What would support us to notice our own and others’ catastrophic thinking? We intend to offer a practice to co-hold “catastrophic thinking” within Liberation Pods, with a demo of a real Liberation Pod exploring this topic together.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
What do we mean by “liberation”? How to co-hold each other’s liberation within a Liberation Pod? We intend to explore how to create practices where people are stuck – so that Liberation Pods can create their own liberation practices for any of the patriarchal conditioning we share about here.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
What is “attachment to strategy” and how does it relate to how we understand and respond to the world around us? What is the relationship between attachment to strategy and our attempts to control life, people and situations? What does this phenomenon look like within ourselves? Here we bring a more classic NVC perspective into practicing gift economy. We intend to offer a practice to co-hold “attachment to strategy” within Liberation Pods, with a demo of a real Liberation Pod exploring this topic together.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
What do we mean by “accumulation” and what does that have to do with the start of and perpetuation of patriarchy? What does accumulation look like now systemically and within our local and personal contexts? What is our vision? How can we care for each other without accumulation? And how can we meet needs currently, while in the structures we are in? We intend to offer a practice to co-hold “accumulation” within Liberation Pods, with a demo of a real Liberation Pod exploring this topic together.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
In this session we intend to explore the practice of impact digestion – why this is useful for a Liberation Pod and how to support each other to digest impacts within a Liberation Pod. We see this as an important part of supporting liberation.
12.00 - 2.00 pm Japan Time / 11.00 am - 1.00 pm Hong Kong Time (find your local time here)
How does scarcity influence our choice to give? How might leaning into trust in life support our capacity to give? What might life look like if resources were in flow? We intend to offer practices to support co-discernment of whether and how much to give in response to the real needs of NGL’s Financial Gift Hub, with a demo of a real Liberation Pod exploring this topic together.