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Envisioning the future on Waterloo Bridge during the April 2019 Rebellion in London
"_Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others._" ― Chögyam Trungpa
In regenerative culture, our overarching mandates are to:
- encourage a culture of care, respect, and interconnection
- facilitate rebels’ active participation in the Rebellion by providing care & trainings, as well as resilient & adaptable group structures
- create procedures which welcome people into the Rebellion and help people to feel supported and appreciated
Read a detailed overview of the regenerative culture working group [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LkL3jzPpH8MUSNpl-VBMZQ6ppGu_ZPYMsCxsrwHOJ20/edit?usp=sharing).
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- [How to get involved](#involve)
- [Project Teams](#projects)
- [Inner Care](#inner)
- [Community Care](#community)
- [Action Care](#actioncare)
- [Eco Care](#eco)
- [Resources](#regenresources)
- [Contacts](#contacts)
#<a id="involve">How to get involved</a>
Please check our calendar, xrboston.org/action/, to sign up for a new member orientation. Our new member orientation will help you get involved in the XR Mass working groups. Email the Regen coordinators for other inquiries.
#<a id="projects">Project teams</a>
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<td style="padding:20px">We organize our work into four circles of care, which each have four teams. We recognize the interconnectedness of all these aspects of care, and provide these teams to organize projects, decentralize, and facilitate community.<br><br>
<b>You can read a detailed overview of the teams/projects that lie within Regenerative Culture <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LkL3jzPpH8MUSNpl-VBMZQ6ppGu_ZPYMsCxsrwHOJ20/edit?usp=sharing">here</a></b>. Teams without point people have not started yet.</td>
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##<a id="inner">Inner Care</a>
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- To holistically care for rebels’ hearts & minds & bodies throughout the Rebellion, including our relational selves and peer-based care<br>
- To facilitate creative expressions of inner care, based in rebels’ personal and collective experiences <br>
- To develop opportunities and practices for a culture of appreciation throughout XR Mass<br>
- <b>Ongoing projects:</b> peer-led listening circles, Work that Reconnects workshops, regular meditations. Find our inner care events and resources <a href="https://xrboston.org/climate-grief">here</a>.</td>
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##<a id="community">Community Care</a>
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- To research, implement, and advocate for organizing structures and processes that improve organizational accessibility and inclusion, adaptability and resilience, and respectful relationships <br>
- To facilitate participation of underprivileged communities and provide feedback on these matters to the broader XR community, including training rebels about issues of oppression <br>
- To welcome newcomers and visitors into our community<br>
- <b>Ongoing projects:</b> conflict mediation, meeting facilitation training resources, working group onboarding, people of color advocacy
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##<a id="actioncare">Action Care</a>
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- To care for rebels participating in actions (before, during, and after actions) and build welcoming community through affinity groups <br>
- To provide training to support rebels who want to be on actions (e.g. basic NVDA training, training for different action wellbeing roles, and legal training) <br>
- To promote reflecting and learning for actions through debriefing and feedback<br>
- <b>Ongoing projects:</b> NVDA trainings and trainings-for-trainers, peacekeeping trainings, protest safety trainings, arrestee support
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##<a id="eco">Ecosystem Care</a>
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- To plan events that actively nurture/steward the local environment and provide training/education about these issues (whether on or off actions) <br>
- To develop a culture of interconnection through community events, skillshares, etc. (envisioning a future where environmental care is collective rather than atomising)<br>
- To help base action infrastructure in ecological practices (e.g. sourcing renewable energy for actions)<br>
- <b>Ongoing projects:</b> coming soon!
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#<a id="regenresources">Resources</a>
- [Our Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lwfyMJi8ybGEBj6iKfDUyx9KL8ie1xcd?usp=sharing): meeting minutes, collaborative documents
- [XR Boston Calendar](https://xrboston.org/action/#calendar)
- [Climate grief resources](https://xrboston.org/climate-grief): Inner care resources
- [Affinity group info](https://xrboston.org/wiki/affinity-groups/): wellbeing on actions and debriefing
- XR Mass [organizational structure](https://xrboston.org/wiki/org-structure/)
- [Building trust](https://xrboston.org/wiki/working-groups/regenerative-culture/trust/): resources for your XR affinity group or working group
- [Conflict resilience](https://xrboston.org/wiki/working-groups/regenerative-culture/conflict-resilience/) resources
- [Meeting facilitation](https://xrboston.org/wiki/working-groups/regenerative-culture/meeting-facilitation/) resources
- [Racial justice](https://xrboston.org/wiki/working-groups/regenerative-culture/racial-justice/) resources: both for environmental work in general, and within our chapter
- [How to give and receive feedback](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KOGlIV67pNB2AS1adUYS1Xp_OK-pLojc/view?usp=sharing): advice for how to give and receive effective feedback and troubleshooting issues that arise
- [Action safety](./action-safety/)
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#<a id="contacts">Contacts</a>
**Coordinators:** (xr.mass.regen@protonmail.com)