Shamanic gift circle (week 25)

When I was younger I read about African tribes where a shaman would do collective healings on the whole group. I thought how wild. I now live amongst many healers these days. At this week’s gift circles our facilitator asked us to sense into what was blocking us from receiving what is that we needed. [...]

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Sweat lodge

The water splashed onto the side of the wood stove sending hot steam inside the sweat lodge. Hot sweat dripping. And our voices chanting, channeling the energies of the earth, of the ancestors, of the indigenous spirit. The sounds melding and combining. And it occured to me tonight in the sacred heatthat we could have [...]

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The practice and theory of the gift circle

The following essay appeared in our “Open Collaboration Journal :Issue1″ and also appeared on the Peer to Peer foundation website THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF THE GIFT CIRCLE An open collaboration has the qualities of open (vs closed), non-hierarchical (vs hierarchical), non-owned (vs owned), emergent (vs planned), participatory (vs witnessing). {For more on these qualities [...]

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GIFT CIRCLE PRINCIPLES

GIFT CIRCLE PRINCIPLES (version 1.12) Expressing needs opens possibilities to give their gifts Expressing your needs is a service to the group Gratitude and compassion is the soil in which the gift economy grows A gift circle holds within itself the means to satisfy many of its members needs People can offer to help others [...]

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Economics=politics: gift circles&NVC

It has begun to dawn on me that the gift circle might hold within it an an interesting way of governance. Lets say the governance issue is what time the gift circle would should start. And the whole gift circle is involved in the discussion. A meeting could proceed in a traditional mainstream format where [...]

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Video about our gift circle

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