CPR: Community Practices of Resilience ~Monthly Event
Every month The Everything Space hosts Community Practices of Resilience (CPR) featuring skills and experiences that support resilient infrastructure: for the individual, for our relationships, for our institutions.
Our intention for CPR is to come together, share food, learn, unlearn, and build skills from all area's of community, in ways that include and cultivate the intelligence of our bodies. The topics will vary from ecology and permaculture, to economic infrastructure, to physical education to trauma informed medic trainings, to communication practices, to health, etc. Each month's presenter chooses a community organization that they would like to support. 25% of the proceeds of their CPR event will go to that organization. |
All Monthly Events 5:30pm-8:30pm
*Currently on Winter Break, Stay tuned Supportive Listening Dec 18: 5:30pm-8:30pm with Amanda Franz |
Supportive Listening
25% of the proceeds will go to HopeWorks. Learn more here.
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Dec 18th, 2017
5:30-6:15pm Potluck 6:15-8:30pm Supportive Listening with Amanda Franz Individual and partnered activities exploring practices of listening. We will use listening and sharing exercises to cultivate the foundations for better communication and boost our resilience. Our ability to communicate well rests on our capacity to hear ourselves, to share what we hear and to listen fully to another. The more we know ourselves, the more we are able to show up in relation to another. Take time to listen and focus on deepening your connection to yourself and another. The whole group, divided into partners, will follow a flow of listening and sharing practices, to dive into what's present in your life, how to hear yourself more clearly and to invite more possibilities of support. ****This class is partner dependent. **** Sign up with a partner (friend, relative, partner). However, not having a pre-set partner is perfectly fine. You may contact Amanda prior to the class at [email protected] to be put on a list and partnered accordingly. All exercises are beneficial regardless of specific relationship with partner. Click here to RSVP to guarantee your spot or email Amanda at [email protected] Let us know: "I'll be building resilience by honing my listening skills with you!" and "I will you be arriving with a partner." or "Please try to pair me with a partner for this class." |
Past CPR Events
August 2017 CPR:
Reclaiming Resilience through The Work That Reconnects
August 21, 5:30-8:30pm
with Adin Buchanan and Amanda Franz A facilitated ritual to make space for and honor our pain for the world. This ritual comes from the Work That Reconnects, an open source body of group practice which draws from Deep Ecology, Systems Theory, and Buddhism. This ritual will be a space to express the depth of our sadness, anger, fear, and numbness, while supported and witnessed by community. As sensitive living beings in a sometimes harsh and rapidly changing world, engaging bravely with our pain allows us to better understand the nature of our connections to community and environment. In supporting each-other to experience these powerful feelings, we are revivified, discover our own personal resiliency, and build community strength. Participants will be encouraged to engage with the ritual at whatever intensity level feels right. |
How does this practice build resilience?
As we become better acquainted with our passionate, sometimes painful emotions, we discover our capacity to come into greater intimacy with the unfolding of life. In expressing, processing, and normalizing these emotions, we help construct a more resilient culture; one which unflinchingly recognizes the suffering of our communities and ecosystems, and has the capacity to engage with and heal the causes of suffering. In feeling our pain, we come to better know ourselves and our place in the world.
Facilitated by:
As we become better acquainted with our passionate, sometimes painful emotions, we discover our capacity to come into greater intimacy with the unfolding of life. In expressing, processing, and normalizing these emotions, we help construct a more resilient culture; one which unflinchingly recognizes the suffering of our communities and ecosystems, and has the capacity to engage with and heal the causes of suffering. In feeling our pain, we come to better know ourselves and our place in the world.
Facilitated by:

Adin Buchanan is originally from the Winooski river watershed in central Vermont. He is currently an undergrad student at Hampshire college, where land based social movements, transformative education, and creative writing are the three pillars of his degree path. In compliment to his studies, he works as a peer mentor, coaching fellow students in public speaking and group facilitation techniques. Additionally, he is trained in facilitating the Work that Reconnects, a collation of embodied despair and empowerment practices, tailored for activists. He also has five years experience organizing and co-facilitating nature education and awareness programs for youth.
Amanda Franz is an embodiment activist, movement artist and lover of all things wild. She is on a crusade to invite people into the profound intelligence of their bodies and reconnect all bodies to what’s alive, what it’s like to be a human-animal and how to bring this work into the Great Turning.
Her personal areas of inquiry and training are contact improvisation, Butoh, Axis Syllabus, Authentic Movement, Body Mind Centering, Somatic Experiencing and Joanna Macy’s- “The Work that Reconnects”. Amanda currently co-creates THE EVERYTHING SPACE- a somatic education studio weaving together personal growth and dynamic social change, where she runs a private practice in somatic bodywork and movement education, teaches a slew of workshops and classes, consults with organizations for wellness workshops and somatic implementation and hosts her herbal business Wild Things Herbal Apothecary. Learn more here. |
September 2016 CPR:
Rewilding Consciousness
Sept 18, 2017
with Sean Donahue 5:30pm-6:15pm Potluck (bring a dish to share and your own plate) 6:15pm-8:30pm Rewilding Consciousness Cost: $15-30 Sliding Scale *If cost is prohibitive, please be in touch. No one will be turned away. How can we tap into the innate wisdom of our bodies and our hearts and the beautifully strange gifts of our splendidly varied minds to reshape our consciousness and grow a culture that once again experiences the world as alive? In this workshop we will explore: -- The natural history of neurodiversity: the biodiversity of human minds -- Our biological predisposition for cooperation and empathy -- How and why the dominant culture constricts and restricts consciousness -- Magical, herbal, and somatic tools for embodied presence in a living world Sean Donahue is an Autistic/neurodivergent herbalist, poet, and witch living on the traditional territory of the Yakima Nation in Trout Lake, WA. He is the co-founder, with Matthew Wood, of the Portland School of Herbal Wisdom and is a member of the faculty of Pacific Rim College in Victoria, BC. He is a priest and initiate of the BlackHeart lineage of the Anderson Feri Tradition. He is a frequent contributor to Plant Healer and Gods & Radicals. Before discovering plant medicine and witchcraft, and realizing that they were a better fit for someone with a non-linear mind and an inability to make small talk, he was an organizer in the anti-war, human rights, and global economic justice movements and a freelance journalist. |
October 2017 CPR:
Deer Teachings

Oct 16, 2017
with Murphy Robinson
5:30pm-6:15pm Potluck (bring a dish to share and your own plate)
*encouragement from Murphy for folks to bring local foods to the potluck.
6:15pm-8:30pm Deer Teachings
Cost: $5-25 Sliding Scale
*No one turned away.
*A portion of the proceeds will go to Justicia Migrante
Together we will learn about how the deer live on the Vermont landscape throughout the year, learn to see the landscape from the deer's perspective, and discuss how we can steward and harvest the resource of deer as a local sustainable source of food and leather.
What is resilience to you Murphy? "Having the tools you need to achieve your basic needs and the community you need to make survival meaningful and fun."
Murphy Robinson teaches archery, ethical hunting, and survival skills at Mountainsong Expeditions in Worcester,VT. www.mountainsongexpeditions.com
with Murphy Robinson
5:30pm-6:15pm Potluck (bring a dish to share and your own plate)
*encouragement from Murphy for folks to bring local foods to the potluck.
6:15pm-8:30pm Deer Teachings
Cost: $5-25 Sliding Scale
*No one turned away.
*A portion of the proceeds will go to Justicia Migrante
Together we will learn about how the deer live on the Vermont landscape throughout the year, learn to see the landscape from the deer's perspective, and discuss how we can steward and harvest the resource of deer as a local sustainable source of food and leather.
What is resilience to you Murphy? "Having the tools you need to achieve your basic needs and the community you need to make survival meaningful and fun."
Murphy Robinson teaches archery, ethical hunting, and survival skills at Mountainsong Expeditions in Worcester,VT. www.mountainsongexpeditions.com
November 2017 CPR:
Nourishing Touch

November 20, 5:30-8:30pm
with Hazel Turrone
Potluck 5:30-6:15, Bring a potluck dish to share and your own plate and utensils.
with Hazel Turrone
Potluck 5:30-6:15, Bring a potluck dish to share and your own plate and utensils.

We will be exploring the nourishing presence of consented touch as a way to support our sense of grounding and well-being and as a tool for de-escalating stress.
We will have an opportunity to engage in some simple, guided practices focused on arriving in the present moment, dropping in deeper within ourselves and in relation to others, and gifting ourselves the time to soak in the nourishment of touch.
The over-abundance of visual input and information in our world tends to keep us up in our heads and not as connected to our other senses and our bodies. There will be opportunities to take a break from our dominant sense of vision and work with other senses in the context of giving and receiving touch.
Touch is a basic need and when fulfilled we are nourished deeply - with profound affects to our nervous system which in turn benefits our immune system and emotional body.
I believe we are more resilient when our needs are met. Touch is a basic need. Sharing touch also contributes to filling the needs for connection, presence, and support.
Adults require human touch to thrive. Keltner says, "In recent years, a wave of studies has documented some incredible emotional and physical health benefits that come from touch. This research is suggesting that touch is truly fundamental to human communication, bonding, and health." From This Article: 8 Reasons Why We Need Human Touch More Than Ever
For more info or for any questions you may have, contact Hazel at 802-798-2170, [email protected]
Hazel is a massage therapist and nutritional/herbal counselor here in Montpelier. Her work continues to evolve as she explores ways of bringing together physically based work on muscles and fascia with various energetic approaches.
Cost: $15-25 Sliding Scale
*If cost is prohibitive, please be in touch.
No one will be turned away.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Pacem School.
Pacem School is an intellectually inspiring, joyful learning community in Montpelier, VT. We are a state-approved, full-time independent 6th - 12th grade school, and in addition, we offer coursework and extra-curricular support to homeschoolers age 10-18. Our students are curious and passionate. We give them time and freedom to pursue their interests while supporting them with an intellectually rich curriculum. Our exceptional faculty, all experts in their fields, inspire and guide our students every day. Pacem provides a community where each student is known and cherished. This setting allows our students to develop confidence, feel empowered, and to blossom.