War & Unity (Voicecraft Live IX)
About
The referendum in Australia and the unfolding conflict in Israel / Palestine have amplified the tensions and challenges of sharing voice together. This is an invitation to practice what it means to presence, connect, and cultivate understanding about many of the critical dynamics which influence our relation to these topics.
Voicecraft is a network and context for transformative communication in relation with patterns of profound importance in our time. Previous events this year have included evenings of interfaith dialogue with leaders of multiple faiths, exploration into topics of AI, wisdom and power, dreams and psyche and several more.
You can watch or listen to previous live events along with other material created for a local and global network and audience on the Voicecraft podcast or YouTube.
Think salon and symposium meet fireside and mystery, kept by a heartfelt dedication to cultivate culture and respond with the reality of our time, and deep time.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS & GUESTS ON THE EVENING
Dr Les Spencer is an elder in attendance on the evening and has led a profound career of community wellness transformation. He is a post-doctoral action researcher, international conference speaker, writing on inter-connecting between natural life world, social life world and global futures. Action research bridges biomimicry, links between geo-emotional, land topography; and social topography; and people sciences including forensic science, psychosocial disaster response (UN consulting), harm minimizing, community psychiatry, neuro-psychobiology, risk-sharing, consulting to global governance, peace studies, relational mediating and reconciliation ceremonies in post-conflict contexts; hermeneutics and futures studies, behavioural science, clinical sociology.
Cam has been involved in counselling practices for 8-10 years and specialises in complexity associated with trauma, substance use, integrative health, shamanic experiences, and the process of change. Cam is highly focused on the psychointegrative, embodied philosophical, and relational/symbolic elements of transformational experiences and the human journey, including the energetic management involved in achieving mental balance, full presence, expression, and healthy embodiment.
Taryn is a visual artist, transpersonal art therapy student, contributor and facilitator at Voicecraft Live events. She is dedicated to learning and applying insights from ancient and modern wisdom traditions in support of contexts and practices that support healing and creative expression. She is also a qualified researcher and cultural heritage practitioner with a focus on human rights and indigenous cultural heritage.
Tim Adalin is the found of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. This focus has found form in relation to questions of metaphysics (what is, what knowing is, and what is the nature of, and our involvement with, the process of valuation). He has a particular interest in supporting Voicecraft to nurture contexts for artful, vital, and wiser communication.
Jurnee is an aspirant of shared understanding in service to care-full withstanding of the waves of change in context both subtle and gross, Voicecraft as training ground for such.
Terri Dentry, PhD, is an organisational psychologist exploring why embedded beliefs are constraining insight in chronic pain, and how synoptic integration of new perspectives can be cultivated in collective sensemaking.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON THE EVENING
- 6.45PM: Doors - Be welcome in the space, refreshment, conversation
- 7PM: Opening one group address w/ participation & initiation guided by resident contributors and invitees
- 7.30PM: Guided Freeform Sessions (Group dialogues in relation to the evening's evolving themes)
- 8.45 - 9PM: Break and refrshment (light and delicious food will be provided)
- 9.30 - 10PM: Return to one group for reflection and integration
- 10PM - Onwards: After event conversations in the courtyard
*(Please note the new arrival time)
REFRESHMENT
We will provide light to moderate food and non-alcoholic drinks. It's not a full dinner, but there are options for different dietary requirements.
Location
T.O.M.S. Place
1 Tripovic Street, Brunswick Victoria 3056