TE4SJ Overnight

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TE4SJ Extended Community

Being seen and appreciated for all that you have given in your role is part of belonging. We aim to honor your journey as educators, acknowledge all that you bring to your communities by offering you a curated space to receive you for this overnight and conference.

We will practice joy, creativity, boundaries, freedom, and solidarity. We believe that to build bridges relationally, you need to exeperience learning and connecting joyously yourself while building skills and tools.

Are you in? Register here.

Tentative Schedule

Goals

Desired participant outcomes:

Build trust, solidarity, and vulnerability among the group
Cultivate joy and mindfulness that can be carried forward into work/life
Be open to releasing attachments to time, transaction, hierarchy, and productivity
Explore healing “intelligence/preferences” by practicing with ourselves
Identify key learnings to share the experience of interrelationship as a base of a learning community
Activating self-agency, joy, and culture to create belonging

Friday 3/28

We will arrive at and spend time together at a local home, with accommodations there or nearby. We aim to

Arrival and Settle In

as early as everyone can

Tea and connect to intentions; solo or pairs intro/grounding

Opening Ceremony and Dinner

5ish

Ritual opening of our space together and generous mealtime connections and contemplations

Dialogue, Contemplation, Relaxation

8pm-ish

Enjoy a provocative prompt with the group and rotating opportunities to contemplate, relax, connect, listen/make music or art, and more.

Saturday 3/29

We will gather again for pre-conference grounding in community at our home location, then join the conference at Easthampton HS for the breakfast, opening keynote programming.

Pre-Conference Gathering

8am

We will come together for grounding and connection before entering the conference space together. We will have breakfast at the conference together with a contemplative practice of commute and arrival.

Morning Workshop

1030am

After the conference Keynote we will stay together in a room setup for our continued co-creation, including integration of themes, self-assessment, and practice in boundaries.

Group Lunch

1230pm

Closing and integration with our group will occur over lunch at the conference. This is the last part of the commitment to the extended community.

Afternoon Workshop

130pm

Choose to either join a structured share-back and dialogue about the extended community experience with other conference attendees, including integrating your learning and wider action steps, or choose another conference workshop during this time

Cost

Our Commitment and Your Contribution

Our collective contributes the wisdom to run these gatherings as well as the inftrastructure, relationships, and lineages we hold.

The cost of the TESJ Conference is included in the contribution you make.

We anticipate a group balanced on a sliding scale of $150 - $500 may cover about half of the actual costs. A few economic justice questions in the registration help you self-determine what is your most generous contribution, including questions about lodging, socioeconomic status, role, history, and identity. There is no scholarship below the scale for this event. A guide is offered to choose within the range:

- Supported: you currently have limited financial resources and will pay this amount yourself, you can benefit from access enabled by shared resources.

- Fair: for those with sufficient financial stability who can pay for the experience or have partial support personally or professionally to combine with their own resources.

- Re-balancing: for those with more than enough financial resources (personal and institutionally supported) willing to add to the communal support of the work and to help re-balance access for all.

- Sponsored: if you have an institution with a budget to use for your development, coordinate them paying in full and consider any matching amount you can offer to support the collective work, enable access, and offer everyone a diverse group experience. A follow up call can be arranged to discuss invoicing details, if necessary.

There is no scholarship below the scale for this event.

PDP Option

Keep It Simple

Get all your PDP points for the overnight and conference without extra asychnronous work.

Coaching option included

A follow-up 45 minute call with one of our healing-centered coaches is a free option available to you when you pay for PDP add-on.

Admin Cost

Continued admin to award points to you and maintain status with DESE takes its own toll on our time. Thanks for contributing to make that possible.

The PDPs will come through Our Fire Collective, unrelated to the option for PDPs for attending just