World Cafe/YES! Multi-Generational Workshop

SHARING OUR GIFTS PRIVILEGES FOR A BETTER WORLD
What unique gifts, powers and privileges do we bring to this world? How can we face the realities of the social and environmental crises of our times, without being overwhelmed and without turning numb? What would it look like to bring our lives and our resources into alignment with our highest values? How can we grow in our physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual health?

With the foreclosure crisis, healthcare gridlock, increasing warfare, tragedy in Haiti, and so much more, it can be hard to feel hopeful about the future. And yet, now, more than ever, each of us is being called to step up and contribute what we can to shift the direction of our world and unfold new possibilities. As the Hopi saying goes, “We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) and our co-host, World Café, invite you to participate in a day-long workshop entitled “Sharing Our Gifts and Privileges for a Better World”. The workshop is an opportunity for each of us to engage in authentic conversations about who we are, our struggles and hopes, our gifts and resources, and the changes we'd like to see in the world.

For the last 20 years, YES! has been conducting programs with young people, which focus on the intersection of personal, interpersonal and systemic change. This daylong workshop is meant to give a taste of our week-long Youth Jams program as well as the World Cafe and is open to people of all ages and backgrounds.

We welcome to the workshop anyone who desires to make a difference with their lives, who feel that they have some gift or privilege (whether through earning, luck, inheritance, education, skills to share, public attention, professional position, or any other self-defined way) and who are willing to share honestly about some of the crucial issues in their lives and our world.

We hope to create a context in which we can take off masks, be authentic, and, in the process, expand our sense of self, of community and of hope. In fact, taking the time to slow down and take stock can be one of the most radical things one can do today, to make a real difference.

“Sharing Our Gifts” will run from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Kalliopeia Foundation in San Rafael. Over the course of the day, we will engage in a variety of activities to examine our life journeys, our diverse identities, our relationships, our sense of generosity, and our visions of a better world.

We ask participants to bring their own lunches – and, if you can, something to share; snacks and drinks will be provided. And, we invite people to contribute to the workshop on a sliding scale of $5 to $200. All donations to YES! are tax-deductible and will support the work of both YES! and the World Café Community Foundation.

For more information and registration please contact Shilpa Jain at [email protected] or Austin Willacy Austin [email protected] via phone at (415)652.9005 or to Juanita Brown - [email protected] 415/663-1961 or Mariah Howard - [email protected]

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