Call Me Love: Birthing a New Way of Power
Thursday April 11 – Saturday April 13, 2024
Facilitated by Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Spillian Co-Founder
A private workshop for Regenerative Nexus and 7Group co-conspirators.
A deep dive into how we might dissolve the boundaries between female and male, human and nature to re-imagine how power can serve to regenerate our world together.
A group of us gathered a year ago to begin this work, beginning with how defining gender in the ways that contemporary western patriarchal culture has skewed power and connections for all stakeholders. We used Sir Ian McKellen’s exquisite embrace of love on the podcast Three Little Words as a metaphorical starting point.
You can watch that here.
This year, we will explore how we can birth|rebirth and generate|regenerate our understandings and use of power in both philosophical and deeply practical ways in our work and relationships with one another and the planet.
•••Idea Vessels
the water we’re in
The Stories We Tell | The Stories that Tell Us
creating a brave space
Permission | Courage Skills
beyond binaries
Beyond Either | Or… and Beyond Both | And
power games
Stymied | Embodied | Spirals
challenges and pathways
Gentle Destabilization | Inviting Vulnerability | Savoring Uncertainty
nourishing water
Empathetic Imagination | Nutrient Exchange |The Circle of Togetherness
being – doing
Co Act | Praxis | Love
•••Schedule
Thursday, April 11
- 3 PM: Room Check-In | Hang Out By Fire
- 5 PM: Casual Dinner, Cocktails, and Greetings
- 6 PM: Evening Opening Session
- 8 PM: Free Fireside Time Until You’re Tired
Friday, April 12
- 9 AM: Breakfast
- 10 AM – 1 PM: Morning Session
- 1 PM: Lunch
- 1 PM – 5: PM Afternoon Session
- 5 PM: Cocktails or By-Yourself Time
- 6 PM: Dinner
- 7 PM: TBD, Group Call – Evening Session or Free Fireside Time
Saturday, April 13
- 9 AM: Breakfast
- 10-11 AM: Final Session
- 11 AM: Check Out
Please Note: This event is by invitation only.
Reserve Now!About Leigh Melander, Ph.D.
Leigh has an eclectic background in the arts as well as consulting in strategic planning, community outreach & marketing, and event planning for over 20 years. She has performed, and taught and facilitated explorations of imagination and creativity internationally, working with individuals and groups to help them find their way to bringing their wild ideas to life. She spent 13 years working in asset-based community building in communities across California, and with students, faculty and a wide range of artists and activists at the University of California Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center.
Her undergraduate degree is in performance, literature, and history from Penn State, and she studied writing by invitation with Nobel Poet Laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University.
She has a doctorate in cultural mythology and psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and wrote her dissertation on frivolity as an entry into imagination. She has has appeared at various conferences and on media outlets, including the History Channel, as a mythology expert, and has published articles in Spring Journal, The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies, The Mythology CD-ROM. She hosted Myth America®, a weekly radio show about how myth shapes our sense of identity on an NPR affiliate for three years and is transitioning to a podcast, and served as the Vice President of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and the editor of their MythBlast series for four years. She is the author of Psyche’s Choice: The Frivolous Revolution, and the upcoming Just This Side of Crazy: Dream Your Wild Idea to Life.
Ten years ago, she and her husband opened Spillian, located on the National Register of Historic Places former estate of the Fleischmanns Yeast family in the Catskills as a place to revel in imagination and possibility.
