In Times of Crisis: 2-day online course with Pat McCabe & Bayo Akomolafe
Advaya Initiative - an alternative think-tank seeking solutions to the interconnected crises of environmental destruction and mental health
Tickets: https://advaya.co/events/2020/03/27/the-climate-crisis-me-you-and-the-more-than-human
This is a retreat we were going to be hosting at The Quadrangle in collaboration with the Advaya Institute.
I’m really pleased to say they are going ahead with it online and I’d highly recommend it.
Sessions will take place on Saturday 28th March and Sunday 29th March from 1pm until 6pm GMT each day via Zoom, and will include teachings by Pat and Bayo, practice, story, breakouts and discussions.
Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) is Chief Curator and Executive Director of The Emergence Network. Author, lecturer, speaker, father, and rogue planet saved by the gravitational pull of his wife Ej, Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing within an ethos of new responsivity – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’. Born into a Yoruba family, Bayo graduated summa cum laude in psychology in 2006 at Covenant University (Nigeria), and then was invited to take up a lecturing position. Largely nurtured and trained in a world that increasingly fell short of his deepest desires for justice, Bayo conducted doctoral research into Yoruba indigenous healing systems as part of his inner struggle to regain a sense of rootedness to his community. He has been speaking about his experiences around the world since those moments back in 2011. Bayo understands he is on a shared decolonial journey with his family to live a small, intense life. He often refuses to share pictures of himself that do not include his wife, Ej, who is (everyone can assure you) the more interesting part of their entanglement. He is an ecstatic (and often exhausted, but grateful) father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden.
Pat McCabe
Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe), a northern New Mexico-based mother of 5, born into the Diné (Navajo) Nation and later adopted by the Lakota Spiritual way of life, is a highly sought after articulator of visions, dreams and symbols and spiritual counsellor who speaks and teaches extensively, nationally and internationally.