Repurpose sport
A community of practice to reimagine sport’s contribution to the critical decade.
Latest update
Timings:
Saturday 25th November - all day, in person - Abergavenny Wales
Saturday 3rd Feb- all day, in person - Earthed, Bristol
Saturday 6th April - all day, in person - location tbc
Fortnightly virtual sessions, kicking off on Tuesday* the 5th December - 7.00-9.30pm - online
Substance:
Everyone will develop an inquiry/question to work with through our time together e.g. (my working one) how can I use create community agency to hospice the bad and support the good within the 'sports' industry?
We will have a number of inspirational speakers join us to bring new perspectives and industry, currently confirmed are:
Dr Easkey Britton - Blue health scientist, big wave surfer and author of Ebb & Flow;
Evva Semenowicz - facilitator, workshop designer & creative strategist,
Dan Burgess - Founder of SpacesShip Earth, facilitator and storyteller
More to be confirmed!
Alongside the inspirational speakers, collaborators will join us to host workshops. Covering themes such as: creativity-storytelling; systems thinking; biomimicry and much more
We will work around the needs of the community and have a few working structures up our sleeves to support this. Julez & I will be creating a space that is outside how most organisations work, we plan to bring: deep listening, mindfulness, nature connection and on.
The background story
It’s high time to realise a new dominant story for what our time ‘outdoors’ can represent. Sport, adventure, play, what ever you want to call it, has long been lived largely as escapism and competition. There’s nothing wrong with escapism and competition in isolation and good measure, but we’ve screwed the measurement and isolation to the world is a fallacy.
Through recognising our connection to nature and the lessons 3.8 billion years of life can teach us, we have a major opportunity create change through our experiences outside.
So, what if we knowingly went out to switch on to the transformative experiences of being in nature, instead of switching off?
What if we knowingly used the power of connecting with nature through our passions outside as our agency for change in the face of crisis?
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The community of practice
Change is difficult an it is extra difficult as an individual. To quote to champions of emergence Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze: Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what’s possible.
Community is where our regenerative strength is, at a collective level to foster change and as an individual to safely-sustainably be part of that change. Systems of power and capitalist structures want you to internalise the challenges as an individual, reducing your agency to participate in something different and new.
Click on image for further information on the community, from Julez Webb & I.
Applications now open!
We’re taking applications until end of Oct, please find the application form here.
Please get in touch with us if you’d like to talk: stanley.townsend1@gmail.com & julez@juliettewebb.com
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