Sustainable Ottery has a subgroup entitled 'Heart and Soul'.
A group working with our hopes and fears in the changing times we live in: the heart and soul group is intended as a forum where we can share how it is for us as human beings to confront the ecological devastation and perilous times we live in. Here is a place where we can acknowledge how it feels and look at how relocalising our community will shape our relationship with the world and each other.
(Sara Drew)
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Would like to get involved in this at some point. I think there is a psychology group that discusses this and that in Ottery at some time, is there a tie in here?
I have been thinking a lot about what motivates me to take part in Sustainable Ottery activities. I guess underneath my concern for the planet and communities is a deep seated howl of pain and rage at the rapacious, disconnected, compartmentalized nature of our culture, which is so destructive of people, other life and the whole planet. I can't just sit by any longer and I can't just do stuff either. I need to vent my feelings and explore how I am in relation to the culture I was born into but feel so alientaed from.
so I would love to have a get together. I am good at doing stuff, and good at talking, but can I really share my hopes and fears about this great time of transition and opportunity that peak oil and climate change are giving us?
Hi
I am up for a group get together - where and when?
I share Sara's feelings completely- I too want to see change and want to get involved in it but our emotional "hunger" for a better lifestyle and the need to genuinely share our community needs to be adressed as well. So, the technological side of things is fine but we need to go beyond this. I would like to see us facilitate means for people to escape their nuclear straightjackets and build a deeper sense of belonging and community feel.
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