Degrowth: A Path to the Great Turning

Event Overview

Degrowth: A Path to the Great Turning is a guided tour through an expanded Work That Reconnects spiral and a deep dive into the Degrowth sustainability science, policies and political strategy. This course is for those who are serious about enacting the Great Turning.

We’ll be combining the transformative ritualistic community practices from the Work That reconnects in an expanded 9 stage spiral that puts the bulk of the emphasis on developing an action plan. This 9 stage spiral is based on Mutima Imani’s 7 stage spiral.

Dates & Time: Each Class will be 2.5 hours
10-12:30 PST, 1-3:30pm, 7pm – 9:30 pm CET
June 21st, June 27th, July 5th, July 12, July 19th, July 26th, August 2nd, August 9th, August 16th

The first half of the class will be bonding and deepening as a community through the Work That Reconnects. The second half of the class will be a technical deep dive into degrowth scholarship and the core concepts emerging form the European degrowth community. Each class will have a required reading which may include academic papers.

The course is designed two achieve two goals. The first goal is to resource participants for cultural change efforts. The second goal is to provide a transformative intro to the degrowth communities core contributions to the global discussion on how we fight for sustainability, justice and preserving a near 1.5C warming world through movement building. We’ll be rigorously working both the head and the heart.

Let’s learn a bit more about degrowth and the expanded 9 stage spiral.

Degrowth:
“Degrowth refers to the planned and equitable downscaling of economic activities that are ecologically destructive and do not contribute to human well-being, to reduce ecological pressures and free up resources for decent living for all.” To achieve this the degrowth community has developed a policy package called the Post Growth deal that that could form the foundation of a new wave of progressive politics. In the course we’ll do a deep dive into this as well as the core components of the analytical frame that academic community has developed.

Expanded Work That Reconnects Spiral includes the follow stages:
Forming a Web of Gratitude, Self Awareness, Social Location & Getting to Know Each Other, Identifying Systems of Oppression & Liberation, Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes, Resituating in the movement & moment, Liberation Strategies, Getting Organized, & Envisioning Winning.

These 9 stages are based on Mutima Imani’s 7 stage spiral but has a stronger emphasis on going forth. The lead facilitator has broken down the going forth stage into 4 parts to allow participants more time to develop an action plan.

Work That Reconnects education has historically been broad and general in terms of how to achieve the Great Turning. What this course hopes to provide is a technical articulation of the latest science on shifting out of the growth dependent economy and into a post growth economy. We’ll focus on the environmental science, the political proposals and work to develop a robust action plan as individuals and a community.

Please join us for this cutting edge educational journey!