How do I participate?
This page gives you access to all of the sessions within the Mushrooming event space through this shared google calendar that will be updated daily with sessions that are submitted into this form. In the form, hosts will be asked to provide details about their offering.
Anyone can host a session, a conversation, a game, a ritual… Anyone can attend any session (unless the host specifies otherwise). There are unlimited sessions that can be offered within this container. Sessions can be added at any time before or during the event.
Each session in the Mushrooming space must be self-hosted. Platform options you can use to host your session include: Jitsi, Google Meet, & Zoom (40min time limit with free version).
Level 1 participation
Add the Mushrooming events to your google calendar and join the sessions!
Level 2 participation
Sign up to host a session
(Please provide your own meeting space)
Level 3 participation
Join the discussion spaces to connect and collaborate with others!
How will we create a space of care?
This is an unfacilitated space, so we ask that you participate autonomously, courageously and most importantly, with care in the process. With that, we’ve prepared some guiding principles:
- Collective Wisdom: We know more together than any of us does on our own. We cultivate the collective wisdom of each one of us.
- Open mind: Listen to learn with curiosity. Suspend judgment, check assumptions, “yes and” language, we are all learners.
- Humanity: We recognize each other and meet as equals in our humanity – what exist at the core of us – before relating through roles, status and expertise.
- Hear all voices: Embrace multiplicity, multiple truths, hear everyone, share the air.
- Respect: Respectful speaking, listening, respect for our time, respect self and others.
This space is also inspired by Open Space Technology
Open Space Principles:
- Whoever comes are the right people
- Whatever happens, is the only thing that could happen.
- Whenever it starts is the right time.
- When it is over, it is over
Why Mushrooming?
As we explore learning in the shadows of the monstrous and the underground, we are intrigued by the mysterious world of our Fungi kin.
Fungi live in cyclical patterns. Starting as spores, they grow into mycelium, which then generates mushrooms that in turn produce more spores, beginning the cycle anew. Those mushrooms are in fact the “fruit” of the fungus, while the majority of the fungal organism lives underground interconnected with roots as a vast network of mycelium.
For years now, we have been ‘composting’ the idea of education. We’ve stayed with the trouble of being part of colonial paradigms that are rooted in separation and control. We resisted easy answers or quick-fix solutions. We’ve questioned a lot of things. It’s been messy like the forest floor, but some magic has been in the making….
No single conference or event is large enough to contain what wants to emerge through us. We need to experiment with new shapes to channel these flows of possibility.
We are all connected to a healthy mycelial web of possibility pulsing across the Earth. Each time we come together in our diversity, we re-ignite each other’s spirits, imaginations and dreams. It’s as miraculous as when a flush* of mushrooms pops up in the forest in all their glorious textures, shapes and colours.
What would happen if we looked to the patterns of fungi to understand our humanity? What we (humans) let ourselves be composted so we can re-integrate and re-generate into our ecosystems?
What if we co-imagine, in the spirit of adventure and curiosity? How might we become more inter-respons-able?
We sense that the conditions are right, that a Mushrooming of co-created knowledge is prepared to emerge. What shape will you take?
Thank you for participating in the mystery, the unexpected, the monstrous.
With mycelial love,
Andre, sierra, Dan, Eileen, Yeyo, Albert, Ana, and Salo from the Re-imagining Education Conference & Aerin from The Emergence Network
*In mycology, a flush refers to a wave or cycle of mushroom fruiting bodies that grow and mature together over a period.
Mushrooming Event Calendar
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