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Integrating Uncommon Sources of Resilience for Community in El Salvador

Submitted by Sophia Ducey on October 10, 2011 - 10:44am

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November 9, 2011 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Experiencing the Spirit of Resilience through Lexio Divina
Wednesday, November 9th, 7:30pm
(Gathering at 7:00pm, Program 7:30pm - 9:00pm,
Discussion and connection until 10:00pm)

Four Salvadorans will be visiting Canadian Memorial on November 9th. Their visit to BC is primarily to share about a current project on community resilience and climate change adaptation. This evening will focus on how they are including the many diverse forms of resilience, particularly those that tend to be overlooked in mainstream development. Spirituality, for example, remains a primary source of resilience for many people and communities, yet remains fairly untapped.

These practitioners work with spiritual themes in ways that are truly profound, evolutionary, effective, and practical. In particular, they practice an embodied form of lexico divina with local people in rural communities. They will facilitate us through this practice at the evening session.

In El Salvador, most community people are people of faith, and so if this organization wants to engage them on any issues pertaining to their community’s development, it serves to draw from that deeper well in so doing. At the same time, this needs to be aligned with a politics of equality and social justice, since most of these communities remain the poorest in the country. This skillful union of the spiritual and the secular is unusual and something we need more of on the planet today. In their approach, current issues like gender equality, climate change, and community resilience are seamlessly engaged with an integral approach to spirituality: embodied, evolutionary, and in relationship with the behaviours, cultures and systems arising in each moment.

Please join us for an evening of contemplative action and integral spirituality with our friends from El Salvador.

More information about the event, contact info@integralvancouver.com

or visit:
http://drishti.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=26&Itemid=31

And, for more information about how the climate change project is seeking to include all sources of resilience, including those that are spiritual, please see: http://beamsandstruts.com/essays/item/572-post-secularity-climate-change-and-spirit