Taos Organization Offers Two Opportunities for Transformation

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Looking for some good news these days?  Want to be part of local Spirit-led social change right here along the Rio Grande? Look no further!  Here are two offerings to launch you into Spring and sustain you all summer!

Brought to you by TiLT [Taos Initiative for Life Together]

OFFERING ONE

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This two-part experience is designed to be “information leading to transformation,” meaning response and action will be expected. Facilitators will provide rich resources so that participants can dive deeper and be ready to respond the next week to the question: How might this information inspire me to make changes in my life and community?

SESSION ONE, 5-7pm Thursday May 6 on Zoom: Todd Wynward and Daniel ‘Ryno’ Herrera of TiLT will offer a multi-media presentation full of inspirational ideas for innovative action.

Learn from their experience how a deep commitment to spirit-led place-based living can give us a place to stand, transform our tastebuds, launch creative community economics, build trust across divisions, teach us to treat our region as rabbi, and give us spiritual and social tools to weather tough times.

SESSION TWO, 5-7pm Thursday May 13 on Zoom: is for Participant Response. Selected practitioners will speak in the first half, respond to last week’s content and share inspiring ways that they already live as people of place. Then in the second half, other participants will share their responses to the material, offer possible actions, and identify next steps.

OFFERING TWO

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Five original podcasts. Five Live Zoom Forums.

A TEN WEEK SUMMER SERIES:

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THE PATH TO RESTORATION

A formative journey together toward a new normal

Practical ways to restore right relationships with Spirit, ourselves, others, and the Earth

Join us for a ten-week journey

Mondays, May 31 – August 2

On The Path to Restoration podcast, long-distance trail runner Zach Martinez interviews Todd Wynward and Daniel “Ryno” Herrera about five ways we all can live into a new normal:

Podcast 1: Walk the Watershed Way

Podcast 2: Grow a Robust Local Food Web

Podcast 3: Hyperadobe Home Building: Make Housing Great Again

Podcast 4: Repurposing Plastic: Turn Waste Into Walls

Podcast 5: After Devastation, Regeneration

Every other Monday evening, the trio will host a live Zoom Forum, encouraging responses by participants to the themes introduced the previous week’s podcast.

When we’re done…only the Spirit knows where our journey will go from there!

A Monthly Resource Encouraging Stewardship of Rio Grande Watershed

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A group of residents of the mid Rio Grande River launched  an interactive magazine called the mid Rio Grande Times to encourage folks to become better stewards of our land, water, plants and wildlife. “Eight years ago our group formed as the result of a community-wide conference on the importance of knowing and being a part of one’s watershed,” said the group which calls itself the Watershed Way.

The group has continued as part of the Albuquerque Mennonite Church’s social action program. “As we explore our current reality, we say to ourselves, It’s time to live more sustainably. Time to participate in earth justice. Time to confront harmful environmental policies.

To receive a Free Subscription, click on the home page and scroll to the bottom. Check out new postings of relevant information, announcements of upcoming community actions, and updates on local food sources. The Index is filled with more articles relevant to life in the mid Rio Grande watershed.

Our World Water Day Observance

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Today is World Water Day. To commemorate the occasion, we created this video using prayers and reflections from Joan Brown, OSF, Terry Sloan (NM-IPL board member), Dr. Larry Rasmussen (NM-IPL advisory board member),  Kathy McCord, Amber Jeansonne, Deirda Velasquez of Valencia Water Watchers; Dodie Hawkins of United Methodist Women; Malcolm Siegel of Water Resources Action Project; Sue Brown from Albuquerque Mennonite Church; and Rev. Vincent Chavez from the Shrine of the Little Flower St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Catholic Church.