Inner Climate Academy

Inner Climate Academy (ICA) and Kincentric Leadership are partnering to deliver a 7 day residential retreat in Auroville, South India. Leading from Within the Wider Web of Life Residential retreat from: 8 - 14th Dec 2023 Auroville, India

We want to lay the foundations for a new paradigm of leadership and polycrisis mitigation, grounded in kincentric ecology.

Kincentric ecology is rooted in a deep sense of our belonging with all life. It places humans as part of a wider web of life and recognizes the more than human world as bestowed with intelligence, sensibilities, subjecthood, and intentionality. This requires a deep acknowledgment of our interbeing - for us to act as kin.

We want to ensure that leaders, from all walks of life, know in their bones that we are part of an intelligent, living Earth and have the ability to build kinship with all life into our responses to the polycrisis. We want to tackle root causes, to embed a kincentric approach into strategy, impact measurement, and ways of working.

We will weave together groundbreaking science into the intelligence, consciousness and agency of the more than human world with indigenous worldviews and practices to push the boundaries of what we think is possible as leaders and human beings facing crisis.

80 fully funded participants from around the world will journey together, supported by teachers, wisdom holders, facilitators and mentors from many backgrounds and fields. 20 participants, from the Global South, will be selected to attend the Auroville retreat, the fourth and last in the series.

For more information go to Kincentric Leaderships event page linked in our bio.

Inner Climate Academy (ICA) and are partnering to deliver a 7 day residential retreat in Auroville, South India.

Leading from Within the Wider Web of Life
Residential retreat from: 8 - 14th Dec 2023
Auroville, India
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We want to lay the foundations for a new paradigm of leadership and polycrisis mitigation, grounded in kincentric ecology.

Kincentric ecology is rooted in a deep sense of our belonging with all life. It places humans as part of a wider web of life and recognizes the more than human world as bestowed with intelligence, sensibilities, subjecthood, and intentionality. This requires a deep acknowledgment of our interbeing - for us to act as kin.

We want to ensure that leaders, from all walks of life, know in their bones that we are part of an intelligent, living Earth and have the ability to build kinship with all life into our responses to the polycrisis. We want to tackle root causes, to embed a kincentric approach into strategy, impact measurement, and ways of working.

We will weave together groundbreaking science into the intelligence, consciousness and agency of the more than human world with indigenous worldviews and practices to push the boundaries of what we think is possible as leaders and human beings facing crisis.

80 fully funded participants from around the world will journey together, supported by teachers, wisdom holders, facilitators and mentors from many backgrounds and fields. 20 participants, from the Global South, will be selected to attend the Auroville retreat, the fourth and last in the series.

For more information go to Kincentric Leaderships event page: https://www.kincentricleadership.org/events/india
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Julia, Lakshmi, Deethi, Rukmini, and Ruhie from the Inner Climate Academy team are extremely excited to be taking part in "To Vunja! We Will Dance with Mountains," an exploration of Dr. Báyò Ákómoláfé's post-activism as a pragmatic politics of rethinking accountability, social justice, and responsivity in the ruins of modernity.

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**We Will Dance with Mountains is a carnivalesque course in postactivism, a matter of fissures, fault lines, cracks, openings, seismic shifts, endings, and fugitive marronage. The course is about recuperating our connections with a ‘world’ that can no longer be seen as dormant, mute and passive. It is about coming to new senses, and co-generating new practices of place-making in partnership with the more-than-human world.**

**This shimmering-becoming is an attempt to make sanctuary for the fugitive unseen, to create an unprecedented animist festival at the edges of safety, a queering of our dreams for troubling times. It is exploration of liminal terrain and permission to fail. WWDWM is about deepening with community in a practice of with-nessing together, about "unlearning what we do when hope gets in the way, when forward movement no longer leads to interesting places, when justice obstructs transformation, and when victory keeps us tethered in carceral dynamics."**

**The online course/festival will include talks led by Dr. Báyò Ákómoláfé, teachings by revered guest teachers, dancing and cooking together, eating together, playing with children, making sanctuary, exercises, one-on-one encounters, regional meetups and local gatherings of practice, musical and theatrical performances, weaving rituals, gathering and creating new assemblages of power together.**

**WWDWM: Vunja! runs from Sep. 3 - Dec. 17, 2023, every other Sunday for nine weeks. Learn more at : www.dancingwithmountains.com &

🌍✨ Documentaries are like windows to another world, revealing events and people from different angles. They have the power to leave an indelible impact on us, inspiring us to take action and make a change within our communities. 🎬🔥

That's why we've assembled a powerful lineup of the most impactful environmental documentaries. 🎥💚 We understand that thinking about climate change and our planet's mounting environmental challenges can feel overwhelming, but these eye-opening films are here to guide us. They paint a vivid picture of our world's current state and serve as an unwavering reminder that the fight against climate change is one we must never give up on. 💪🌎❤️

Are you ready to dive into these environmental journeys? Share with us which documentary has inspired you the most and why! Let's engage in a conversation that sparks change! ✨🗣️
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In April, Lakshmi Venugopal and Julia Pullen from ICA attended Nature in Art festival at the Htnha Kalimpong
Lakshmi held a session on Climate Grief and Pathways to Emotional Resilience. Here are some highlights from the event.
In 2003, Hemlata Pradhan initiated the Himalayan Trust of Natural History Art (HTNHA) in Darjeeling where she dreams of combining art, education and conservation at the grassroots. As a part of the Natural History Art course at HTNHA, children are taught how to observe and explore nature through the medium of painting, ceramics, sculpture, textile design and jewellery design, natural history illustration and ecological studies, including dance and music, thus serving to bridge the gap between art and science.
The students attend regular school during the day. then the art school in the evenings, at weekends and holidays. The classes give them a new sense of awareness and the tendency to observe more closely, the plants and insects they already knew existed.

📸 Hrishav Chongder

Globalisation, explained by .

Floods in Pakistan: An uneven climate crisis and the case for reparations 🚨

Pakistan, a country that contributes as little as 0.8% to global greenhouse gasses, is currently experiencing its worst and most destructive monsoon season yet, likely the result of climate change itself.

Described as biblical in proportion, the current Pakistan monsoon season has caused an incomprehensible amount of destruction, leaving over one-third of its land underwater and almost 1,700 people killed. The loss of two million homes, thousands of kilometres of roads, and hundreds of vital bridges mark the beginning of what will likely be an extremely difficult time for the 33 million displaced individuals who are still trying to survive, stay positive, and call Pakistan home.

During times such as these, information is an absolute necessity, and if you are looking to assist, you are probably wondering the same thing we are: What’s behind the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, what exactly is happening on the ground, and what can I do to help?

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Join us for a Creative Exploration
Anthropocene - From despair to active hope

This 5 weeks journey will be a combination of online gatherings, workshops, talks, social media and email engagements that take us into the depth of the challenges that the Anthropocene brings to our lives, and collectively find our way through by providing spaces for creative self-expression and sharing.

Visit the link in the bio for more details.

Sources:

https://earth.org/floods-in-pakistan/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/pakistans-biblical-floods-and-the-case-for-climate-reparations

"Summertime" - Reflections on a vanishing future with Danielle Celermajer 📢
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Danielle Celermajer is a Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and lead of the Multispecies Justice project.
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Join us for a Creative Exploration
Anthropocene - From despair to active hope

This 5 weeks journey will be a combination of online gatherings, workshops, talks, social media and email engagements that take us into the depth of the challenges that the Anthropocene brings to our lives, and collectively find our way through by providing spaces for creative self-expression and sharing.
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When:
Saturday, 10th December 2022
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM IST

Visit https://bit.ly/3DO56JQ for more details.

Creative Self-Expression with Meena Subramaniam 📢
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Meena Subramaniam is a nature and conservation artist who lives near
Periyar Tiger Reserve. Her work has been featured in several
magazines, including Sanctuary Asia, The Indian Quarterly, with
ecologist and writer, Suprabha Seshan in The Dark Mountain and the
Marg issue, Ars Botanica. She is also the recipient of the 2018 T N
Khoshoo Memorial Award for pioneering work in ecological art, in 2018.
She has recently made a small contribution of illustrations for the tome,
Trees of Arunachal Pradesh, NCF ad a poster for CF on fruit dispersal
by frugivorous birds of Pakke forest, Arunachal Pradesh. Her preferred
medium is Acrylic on canvas and occasionally water colours.
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Join us for a Creative Exploration
Anthropocene - From despair to active hope

This 5 weeks journey will be a combination of online gatherings, workshops, talks, social media and email engagements that take us into the depth of the challenges that the Anthropocene brings to our lives, and collectively find our way through by providing spaces for creative self-expression and sharing.
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When:
Saturday, 3rd December 2022
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM IST

Visit the link in the bio for more details.

It was an honour to be part of this ..

Worldviews Sangam | 6-8th November'22 | at Timbaktu Collective

🌐The Indigenous and Community Worldviews Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) was a gathering of Adivasi, pastoral, farmer and other communities, and civil society organisations on 6-8 November 2022. This gathering was organized by Kalpavriksh, Inner Climate Academy Inner Climate Academy and other groups, and hosted by Timbaktu Collective, an initiative promoting transformations towards equity and sustainability in over 300 villages in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

✳It was an attempt to highlight diverse ways of being and living and knowing of such communities across India, and to enable greater understanding and collaboration amongst them. The 30-odd participants included members of Adivasi or Indigenous communities like Warli, Mishmi, Dimasa, Gond, Soliga, Chakhesang, Oraon, Meena, and Lepcha, pastoral Maldhari and Van Gujjar communities, and Dalit women farmers from Telangana.

👀Watch this space for more!

Photo courtesy: Urvi Shah & Ashish Kothari