Crew News: Inspiration in Service to Life
Growing connection, courage, creativity and community in unravelling times - June newsletter
Greetings Earthling
June came and went.
Please find news, offerings and invitations for this moment.
Thank you for your support.
With love and courage
Dan and the Basecamp Crew
WATCH
Retrofit Re-imagined
What if the climate transition and retrofit of our homes and streets were designed, owned and governed by the people who live there?
The #RetrofitReimagined film from the incredible Civic Square and friends takes us on a journey across the UK in Autumn 2023. During the second Retrofit Reimagined Festival, they explored the power of neighbourhood-led retrofit through the core theme of rebuilding our relationships with the land, the materials we consume, and our relationships with each other.
Retrofit should not only see the home, street, and neighbourhood as key strategic sites for decarbonisation, but also places of deep imagination for addressing the inequalities of wider, interlinked systems, of which our built environment sits at the heart.
If you dig this, check out our episode with Immy Kaur and Kavita Purohit from Civic Square, listen on all platforms.
READ
Crack Flowers #2: Unexpected stories to Rewild our Minds, Hearts & Cultures from Minou Schillings
Three short stories to rewild your mind, shift horizons and help you regenerate life on earth.
Crack flowers is seeking to bring new perspectives, ways of thinking, seeing and being into your life. The stories that make you question your worldview, knowledge and beliefs.
LISTEN
Episode 89 - Lily Cole - Interbeing, Relationality and the Roots Inside
Lily is a model, activist, social entrepreneur, writer, actor and mother who has campaigned and acted persistently on multiple social, environmental and climate justice issues throughout her working life.
She is committed to exploring new possibilities and ways of being which put care and life at the centre.
I connected with Lily last year when we were both invited to attend a climate activism retreat at Plum Village, the Zen Buddhist Monastery in France founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
The Plum Village force is strong in this episode.
This conversation is grounded in this moment, it’s a dive into the deeper parts of change, the inner and outer dimensions of our values and actions and how they influence and shape the systems we seek to change.
Available on all platforms
PRACTICE
Simple, beautiful practice wisdom from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
PARTICIPATE
Becoming Crew online gathering with special guest Ella Saltmarshe - Tuesday July 16th 6.00 pm GMT
Time is a story.
And we can change that story.
Join us for our last session of this summer series with special guest teacher Ella Saltmarshe, host of the multi award winning Long Time Academy Podcast, where we will expand our perspectives, exploring how becoming polytemporal can enable us to better meet this moment.
We will inhabit different temporalities, and explore the nuances of what particular ways of doing time can open up for the now.
We will spend time in the early days of the planet; we will get civilisational; we will cultivate intergenerational empathy; we may also talk to the birds…
Ella is a systems change specialist, anthropologist, writer, podcaster, teacher, activist and mother, founder of the Long Time Project, which seeks to cultivate a culture of stewardship and public imagination across society.
The session is an experiential (un)learning session hosted by Dan Burgess and Evva Semenowicz.
Everyone welcome - a space for (un)learning together.
Come and join us on 16th July, tickets here
SUPPORT
Radici Farm
A family project, Radici Community Farm in Italy is on a mission growing regenerative futures on a living landscape. From farm volunteering stays, glamping and camping to arts and creative retreats. Check em out.
We hope to host Becoming Crew on-land events for European crews in 2025 with Radici.
CONNECT
Overnight Nature Solo - September 20-22nd. Nr Bath, UK
We are hosting and guiding an overnight nature solo weekend in September.
We will gather on 20 acres of regenerating downland meadows near the city of Bath, UK.
Ghostwood Down has got a bit of history. Close to Bath and Bristol it is a downland landscape of ancient meadows being regenerated to a wilder state.
It is precisely the sort of place to be doing our On-Land work -> healing the land, healing ourselves.
48 hours
8 Soloists
4 Guides
Living simply together as a crew
1 night in the village
1 night alone (but together) on the land
Lots of time in connection and community.
Friday 20th September to Sunday 22nd September.
Follow up integration online
DANCE
Beautiful deep, emotive, haunting, pumping live session from sonic magician Artist, Producer and DJ Steven Weston
#thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #crewnews #creativityinservicetolife
Thank you for cross-pollinating Crack Flowers and the Love & Awe for wider nature!