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SUMMARY:Intro to Meditation Practice
DESCRIPTION:Intro to Meditation Practice\nCurious about meditation? Tried it before but looking for another chance to dive in? Here’s your chance at a very special Intro to Meditation Practice class. \nSpillian is delighted to introduce Brynn Yeager\, an American Meditiation Society Certified teacher\, as she offers a 2 hour dive into meditation on Monday\, July 27 from 10-12. \n  \nAbout the Class\nMeditation is a simple and effortless process where you connect with the silence and peace within yourself. You connect with a deeper level of yourself\, the stillness within\, and gradually over time\, you begin to live from a place of steadiness and inner peace. \nA meditation practice is beneficial in many ways including reducing stress\,normalizing blood pressure\, enhancing creativity\, and much more. Meditation is a way of reaching and directly experiencing the depths of who you truly are\, taking you from a limited\, conditioned mind and into your heart.  Practices are taught step-by-step\, and you are led gently and gradually based on your own experience. This intro class will give you the tools to continue on the path toward full practices or a good base for a regular practice. \nThis two-hour course will be an intro to the basic practices taught by the American Meditation Society. AMS offers full practices that are well balanced and designed to accommodate those with a busy schedule. The full practices include a range of practices that promote balance through opening the heart and focusing the mind. In this course\, we will be covering a basic relaxation technique and mantra meditation. All levels of meditators are welcome! \nMonday\, July 27 from 10 AM to Noon\n$10 suggested donation. \n(Half for AMS and half for the instructor; Spillian is delighted to donate our space for this event!) \nAbout AMS\n\nThe American Meditation Society is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to providing meditation classes and meditation techniques that are personalized. A range of instruction is available including meditation for beginners to advanced practices that are designed for the individual. \n  \n  \nAbout Brynn Yeager\n\nBrynn Yeager is completing her bachelor’s degree in Community Based Mindfulness\, Meditation\, and Creativity through the College Scholars Honors Program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is the president of the Mindfulness and Meditation Clib on her campus and is also a member of Boss Dance Company\, a student run organization. During the academic year\, she is the Marketing Photographer for the Clarence Brown Theatre. She is also a dancer\, teacher\, board member\, and choreographer for Momentum Dance Lab\, a local adult modern dance company in Knoxville. Her goal is to open a community center in Knoxville that focuses on mental health through meditative practices\, with the goal of serving the undeserved in her home town.
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SUMMARY:Main Street Boot Camp - MARK Project
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! \nWe’re delighted to announce that the MARK Project is going to present the second Main Street Bootcamp at Spillian on April 11 and 12\, 2016.  \nThis promises to be a very special event – last year’s version was a sold out crowd sharing brilliant ideas about how to revitalize our communities through creative planning\, economic development\, historic preservation\, visioning\, and most of all\, working together to strengthen the weave of our villages and towns. \nThere will be a host of speakers again this year\, working rich ideas about how we make our main streets (and beyond!) sing. \nIf you live in the Catskills and want to learn more about what you can do with and for your community\, you need to be here! Stay tuned for lots more details…but make sure you get it on your calendar! \nFrom the Executive Director of the MARK Project: \nI’ve had the honor of serving as Executive Director of the MARK Project since July of 2008. Rarely a day goes by that I’m not completely awed by these alluring\, majestic Catskill Mountains. Yet\, those of us who have made the life decision to coexist with this often demanding landscape are challenged with a constant balancing act. Quality of life\, economic stability\, community vibrancy and humanity all play a role in fostering our sense of place in the Catskills. So many of us cherish this region with our hearts and souls and invest time\, energy and resources to make life better. However\, in the absence of a coordinated and cohesive process\, our work becomes weakened by our inability to make effective change. My question to you is this: are we working hard to reach our own individual goals and objectives\, or is there a broader design that will make our whole communities thrive? \nFor nearly four decades\, the MARK Project has been working to bring resources\, talent\, and investment to the region. Our list of successful projects continues to expand: from helping economically challenged households with their health and safety issues and providing safe and affordable housing opportunities; to the injection of financial resources to our Main Streets and small businesses; to assisting start up organizations and providing capacity to smaller organizations; to taking on the harrowing and unpleasant task of recovery and rebuilding in the post-Irene environment. MARK also continues to tackle regional issues whenever they arise\, and looks to initiate those community projects that are symbiotic and mutually beneficial to all. This is certainly an exhausting and often thankless effort. \nYet\, there is still something missing — coordination and cooperation. \nWe are at a pivotal moment in the Southern Tier and the Catskills. For the first time in decades\, there are available resources and opportunities to help our communities flourish and we have a library of planning efforts behind us that will help position us to make a substantial difference. But without a unified approach\, our efforts will be fruitless. This is not about any one person or organization taking credit. It is not about one Main Street getting more attention than another. It is not about whether the arts are more important than outdoor recreation or whether an infrastructure project takes precedence over the development of a trail system. They are all interconnected and all contribute to the vibrancy of our communities and the region as a whole. \nAs we move forward\, I am charging myself with the task of forging cooperative and collaborative efforts\, and I am asking all of you to do the same. Now is the time to get our Main Streets talking to each other\, to get community leaders to the table and help them stay on task\, and to think about transformational projects and programs. We already know our potential. Now let’s make our goal to work together to create the vibrant and sustainable region that we envision — now and for future generations. \nPeg Ellsworth
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LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
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SUMMARY:Find the Essence: Regenerative Whole-Systems Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Find the Essence:\nA Regenerative Whole-Systems Planning Workshop\n\nJoin us for the first in a trio of truly extraordinary workshops at Spillian\, using the place itself as a living lab as we learn together how to thing in a deeply creative\, connected\, regenerative way about projects and places anywhere in the world as we imagine a master plan for the 33 acre historic estate. Led by two of the nation’s most visionary leaders in sustainability\, architect John Boecker and film maker Tom Keiter of 7group\, this series will blow open your imagination and give you powerful tools to imagine past what you think is possible. \nQuick Details\n• Friday through Sunday\, February 19-21 2016\n• Beginning Friday at 5 PM and ending at noon Sunday\n• $385 SPECIAL $299 includes all meals and materials\n• $325 for lodging for Friday and Saturday at Spillian. Commuters also very welcome. Lodging space is limited. \n• Click here for full schedule.\n• Call 800.811.3351 to make reservations or for more information.  \n____________________________________ \nDeveloping Regenerative Thinking at Spillian\nIn order to realize its full potential\, the regenerative planning process must build our ableness to think systemically and holistically about whole living systems and our role in serving the transformation of those systems. Therefore\, as Spillian embarks on a master planning effort aimed at guiding its future evolution\, all those interested in learning how to engage regenerative design and development are invited to participate. Accordingly\, the regenerative planning process for this effort at Spillian is being conceived as an instrument for developing regenerative thinking among all of us as members of communities. This process is currently being designed around a series of workshops aimed at building the capacity and capability of all participants and stakeholders to think in an integrative whole-systems way. Three workshops are currently envisioned for the arc of this process: \n• Workshop #1: Find the Essence: A Regenerative Whole-Systems Planning Workshop On\n                                Alignment . . . February 19 -12\, 2016\n• Workshop #2: Goal-Setting . . . dates to be determined\n• Workshop #3: Concept . . . dates to be determined \nAs indicated above\, the first of these workshops is planned for the weekend of  beginning on Friday evening at 5:00 and concluding at 11:30 on Sunday morning. Here’s what we’ll be starting with! \nAlignment Workshop Purpose: \nTo develop and align around the Purpose of creating a place-sourced Master Plan for Spillian and Principles for guiding its development\,\nIn a way that fosters interconnectivity between active participants in a fulfilling co-creative process of regeneration that values the role of all stakeholders\,\nSo that the work of Spillian energizes and empowers stakeholders to continually transform the quality of their lives\, their unique communities\, and beyond indefinitely. \nAlignment Workshop Products: (Targeted Outcomes) \nFunctional \n\nDevelop and align around the Purpose of developing a holistic Master Plan for Spillian\nImage and understand project potential for place-sourced regeneration\n\nAlign around regenerative language and basic frameworks for working effectively\nIdentify current conditions and restraints\n\n\nDevelop and align around value-adding processes (VAPs) to be delivered to stakeholders\n\nIdentify and develop an understanding of core stakeholders\nDevelop Principles for delivering VAPs in balance to each core stakeholder group\n\n\nInvite the fluidity of fun\, play\, bliss\, and a lightness of being\n\nBeing  \n\nExperience a regenerative and collaborative spirit that genuinely values each participant’s role.\nEngage transparent co-exploration and collective discovery of unrealized potential that is sourced from what is unique about this particular community and this particular place.\nInvite the fluidity of fun\, play\, bliss\, and a lightness of being.\n\nWill \nExperience that working on this project will help each of us manifest what we really care about in a meaningful way for ourselves\, our community\, and the larger world. \nProject Aim: \nTo Develop a Master Plan for Spillian as an evolving place for regenerative restoration (across three lines of work) with the creation of a new Performing Arts Pavilion serving as an instrument for developing the next phase of Spillian’s development. \n____________________________________ \nAbout Regenerative Whole-Systems Planning\nEach particular place is alive\, unique and evolving.  If we want to flourish over time\, we must understand that we are in mutually beneficial relationship with each particular place and that humans play a participatory role in the vitality of the living systems in which we are nested. \nThe basis of regenerative whole-systems planning lies in understanding that role through understanding the uniqueness of each place we live and work – and what created and continues to create that unique identity. The cultural environment we call a community is a living system composed of many complex cultural and natural systems that form a web of mutual support. The health of cultural (and economic) systems is ultimately dependent on the health of natural – or living – systems. \nRegenerative planning is rooted in the belief that healthy living systems have an inherent capacity to continually generate new sources of life for and within themselves and their environment – i.e.\, to re-generate. This work is grounded in a philosophy that humans (and human activities) are not apart from the development and ongoing evolution of such healthy living systems; rather\, humans serve a participatory role in their continuing viability and vitality. Through the practice of developing how we are thinking in this way about whole living systems\, any project can be leveraged as a highly effective acupuncture point for helping transform community vitality and regenerating life. \nThere are two interrelated dimensions in this regenerative planning work: \n\nAt its entry level\, Regenerative Design is a practice for reversing the systemic decline in living systems and creating the basis for self-renewing socio-ecological vitality.\n\n\nRegenerative Development is a continual process that builds the capacity\, capability\, and will of stakeholders to serve as co-designers and active participants in the continual evolutionary transformation of their unique place.\n\nRegenerative Development and Design comprises a meta-discipline that combines the pattern thinking and practices of Ecological Design\, Permaculture\, Biophilia\, Organizational Psychology\, Neuroscience\, and Integrative Design. \nThe purpose of regenerative planning is to facilitate and guide the evolution of a place toward its highest creative and productive potential in a way that explores its unique nature and capacities (essence)\, so that planning efforts improve the capability of all living systems (including the larger whole-system in which each place is nested) to evolve towards higher levels of vitality and viability indefinitely. Through a series of workshops\, participants experience this work through highly interactive engagement and discussion around how building and development can be seen as an instrument for healing\, sustaining\, and regenerating the community of life in each unique place by re-membering that we play a participatory role in the vitality of the living systems in which we are nested. \nThe process of working on projects from this whole living-systems perspective shifts the focus of everyone’s attention from simply solving problems and working only on “things” (such as buildings) to seeing any such project as an instrument for working on realizing the highest creative potential of the larger systems in which the project is nested (and inter-dependent). This shift in focus builds an understanding of the particular nature of each unique community/place and the particular reciprocal interrelationships (between human and “natural” systems) that create that uniqueness. \nWorking in this way awakens a deep and caring sense of place that becomes transformational by serving as the source of new community spirit and individual will grounded in what people really care about. Communities all over the world currently engaged in this process are reconciling longstanding deep divisions\, improving the quality of life for all inhabitants (all species)\, and delivering real value to all stakeholders by collaboratively co-creating processes of reciprocal exchange aimed at the health of the whole\, not just the pieces. \n_______________________________ \nAbout John Boecker & Tom Keiter\nJohn Boecker serves as a founding partner in 7group\, an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary consulting firm focused on green and regenerative development. As an architect\, his practice has focused exclusively on green buildings and integrative design since 1996. He served on the LEED Steering Committee from 2002-2009\, and he Chaired the USGBC’s national LEED Curriculum Committee from 2002-2007. Along with his 7group partners and Bill Reed\, he co-authored The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building\, a seminal book published by Wiley in April\, 2009. He also co-hosted with Bill Reed the national Voice America radio program\, “Building Deeper Green: Reframing Sustainability.” As a highly sought keynote speaker\, John has lectured on the benefits of integrative design and regenerative development in 35 states and 14 countries. He has served as LEED Faculty since 2002\, and he was appointed a LEED Fellow in the inaugural class of 2011. \nTom Keiter has over 30 years of experience as a communications consultant\, filmmaker and developer of multiple media communications tools.  He is a founding partner in storyshop llc\, a documentary production group and has been producing for public television and independently.  He has produced numerous projects on green building and sustainability issues\, including Pennsylvania’s Building Green in PA program\, a series of DVD tools\, including Lessons Learned\, first utilized in USGBC’s LEED Training Workshops.  A partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute produced a two-program High Performance Building series\, Perspective & Practice and High Performance by Integrative Design.  He originated the nationally distributed public television project Water Blues\, Green Solutions\, which was a follow-up to Liquid Assets\, both focused on water.  His work has received four Emmy Awards\, as well as recognition in the International Film & Video Festival\, CINE Golden Eagle\, the Communicator Awards\, and the Engineering Journalism Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies. \n__________________________________ \nWorkshop Registration\nReservations\nWe welcome both ‘day campers’ and ‘sleep over’ campers\, so please let us know if you’d like to stay with us or off site. \nFood\nA light dinner Friday\, Breakfast\, Lunch\, and Dinner Saturday\, and Breakfast  Sunday from our in-house chef are included in the price of the workshop. We are happy to provide vegetarian and basic gluten free options at all meals; if your diet needs are more restrictive\, please touch base with us when you book your reservation to see if we can accommodate you. \nOur cash bar will be open both Friday and Saturday evenings\, featuring a hand-selected array of wines\, beers\, and spirits. \nLodging\nWe have eight delightful rooms available for guests. Check them out to see which one catches your fancy! We anticipate that these will fill up quickly\, so be sure to fill in the reservation form below so we can book your reservation. Click here to learn more about our rooms. \n___\nPricing\nWorkshop Regular Registration: $385  SPECIAL $299!\nRooms are $325 for two nights\, single or double occupancy\nBook a massage for $100/hour\n(workshop and lodging subject to additional sales tax)\n\nFor more information or to register\, please call us at 800-811-3351. Thank you!
URL:https://spillian.com/event/find-the-essence-regenerative-whole-systems-workshop/
LOCATION:Spillian\, 50 Fleischmanns Heights Road\, Fleischmanns\, 12430\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imaginarium,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Regenerism: Place-Sourced\, Whole Systems Planning | Myth America Radio
DESCRIPTION:Regenerism on the Radio\nJoin Spillian Co-Founder Leigh Melander\, Ph.D. and special guests John Boecker and Tom Keiter of 7Group as we dive deep into the world of renegerism — a next-generation way of thinking about sustainability\, place\, essence\, and how systems work as a whole. \nIf nature is our source for learning how to think systemically about whole living systems and our role in serving the transformation of those systems\, we must understand the ecological worldview that humans are a part of nature\, not apart from it.  At Spillian\, we are engaging with John and Tom as coaches in an amazing regenerative master planning process that has been designed to build the capacity and capability of all of us (as members of communities) to experience how development can be an instrument for healing\, not just doing less damage. \nWe’re offering a workshop in February that will use Spillian as a lab to go deep into how we can define the essence of a place\, its stakeholders and what geniuses they bring and need in a whole-system\, and how we can translate this to our lives\, our communities\, our work\, and our play. And most importantly\, why that matters. This is powerful stuff. \nYou can learn more about John and Tom and this workshop here!  \nBut in the meantime\, please join us Tuesday morning on @WIOX Radio 91.3 FM and streaming worldwide on wioxradio.org  on Tuesday\, January 5\, 2016 at 9 AM ET for what promises to be a powerful\, evocative conversation about place and how we imagine it. \n••••••• \nAbout Myth America\nJoin host Leigh Melander\, Ph.D.\, and her guests from around the world as we explore the powerful\, evocative mythologies that inform who we are.  Myths are the stories that we tell and the stories that tell us.™\nThey are the metaphors that shape our imagination of the world around us. \nThe ancient Greeks said that myths were the things that were most and least true simultaneously. Far from just being a lie\, myths pulse in the background of all of our lives — our selves\, our families\, our communities — we tell ourselves stories about all of them. What are the myths we’re living in and how are they living in us? \nMyth America. 9 AM ET on WIOX 91.3 FM or streaming at http://wioxradio.org/\nA project of Spillian LLC\, a creative center offering programming in imagination\, story\, myth\, sustainability\, and community. \n 
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