Mon 3/26 7pm to 9pm
(come early for tea and social)

Location:
Sebastopol Center for the Arts Library Room
6780 Depot Street  in downtown Sebastopol

$ donation ($10 suggested or pay what you can)

We are pleased to announce the follow up to our "Love in Action" event, which is a new and exciting group for creating our alternative economy and real ongoing mutual support for us in building resilience.

Though we are focusing on the simple gift circle to begin with, the idea is to allow the gift circle idea to include ways of creating a "Resilience Network". This means that this regular meeting will be a place where we can offer what skills we have to share, what we are doing to make ourselves more healthy and happy, emergency preparedness support, gardening and food help, energy sourcing, music and art sharing, and heck, who knows, maybe even barn raising!  This group will be what you make it.

We are beginning the group this next Monday, March 26th. We plan to do this on a regular basis and invite folks to step in to facilitate as well.

There is a new google group list for this, where you can post needs and wants between gatherings as well.  
You can sign up at:  http://groups.google.com/group/resilientliving 

or for more info you can send an email to:  resilientliving@googlegroups.com 

At the circle we will introduce the basic format and guidelines and then dive in! This will be a fully participatory evening, so consider what you might want to give and receive. We will also be basing future dates and frequency of our meeting on the desire of the group, but every other monday looks like a good place to start.  

This room does cost us to rent, so we will be soliciting a nominal fee based on what feels right to you.

Your Intiating Hosts:

Julia Bystrova 
Mary O'Conner

Here is a good overall look at Gift Circles by Alpha Lo, our local pioneer:
http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/gift-circle-overview-o...

Here is a good write up of some folks who are doing a gift circle:
http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-start-gift-circle.html

Here is a great site:
http://wiki.gifteconomy.org/Gift_Circle

Here is an article on gift circles by Charles Eisenstein:
http://www.realitysandwich.com/circle_gifts

And here you can read about resilience circles:
http://localcircles.org