“Hvað skiptir okkur raunverulega máli?” er einstakt og hvetjandi 8 vikna námskeið þar sem við skoðum hvað það þýðir að lifa hamingjusömu og innihaldsríku lífi. Námskeiðið byggir á nýjustu rannsóknum á hamingju og er ætlað öllum þeim sem hafa áhuga á að auka eigin hamingju og byggja upp jákvæðara og betra samfélag. Í hvert skipti er unnið með eitt þema sem byggir á einni spurningu, svo sem: Hvað virkilega skiptir okkur máli? Hvað gerir okkur hamingjusöm? og: Hvernig eigum við að koma fram við aðra?
// The Action for Happiness course is a unique and inspiring 8-week course to explore what matters for a happy and meaningful life. The course is based on the latest scientific evidence and is intended for people of all backgrounds, particularly those who would like to see a more positive and caring society. Each session has a theme, based on a ‘big question’, such as: What really matters in life? What actually makes us happy? And: How should we treat others?
Accessibility:
Anyone over 18 is welcome.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor. The event takes place on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
the origen and the meaning of the term. From Bookchin to Ocalan
examples: Rojava
examples: zapatistas
– exemples we can find in western countries?
Discusion of a common bases of what it means in the context of the meeting?
The politics of libertarian municipalism
What is the State ???
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
An independently organised event hosted by Oktavia and Olga. NOTE: BOTH THE PROTEST ROOM AND THE LIBRARY ARE RESERVED FOR THE EVENT.
Partaking in demonstrations is a necessary act of societal participation. Doing so in a safer way and knowing your rights in Iceland is fundamental to any act of defiance.
During this workshop we will engage in safety in a holistic manner, digital, physical and most importantly psycho-social and self-care as well as get insight into the legal frameworks in Iceland that define what rights individuals have and what can be expected from law enforcement.
Accessibility:
Andrými is currently not accessible to wheelchairs, and challenging to access for people who have difficulties going up steps.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). The event takes place on the ground floor. There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral. Pronoun badges are available.
The library will serve as a space of calm for folx who need to minimize input (sound, light, people) and who need to be able to opt in and out of sessions. We will be able to have the workshop in multiple languages, English, Icelandic, Danish and basic Spanish. We will provide food and snack to make the space accessible to folx who have little leeway or space for extra budgetary considerations.
15.30- 17.30 h Contents 3 how to build processes of democratic confederalism
how we build it in one region where still nothing like that exist?
This would include to think together about a process where we are building a new system/meaning a new arquitecture of agreements/laws in a territory ruled by a nation/state, (include Route of power)
We have to include the use of strategical desobedience, the hack of legal systems to protect our process, etc.
Dual power theories should be included in this discusion,
The politics of libertarian municipalism
Building community where community no longer exists – everything in democratic confederalism extends from the basic layer. Community ties -> Political community -> Assemblies -> Taking local power -> Confederation -> Dual power.
The role of the revolutionary organisation – democratic confederalism fails without it. Which would be the adaptation of this kind of organization in western countries?
Revolutionary practice – thinking about how our means must be the same as our ends.
Avoiding co-optation by the State
The importance of political education How to acheive popular political education? Without it, the movement will fail, as we have been taught by examples in the US.
18 – 21 workshops 2 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
09.30-11.30 Process 2 *
12-14 h Contents 4 equalities and democratic confederalism
– issues of inequality
– gender equality
– rights of minorities
– micropowers dinamics
Means and ends – building liberatory movements (removing discrimination/oppression from our movement)
Understanding fascism
Radical democracy and empowered communities – the first defence against fascism.
18 – 20h workshops 3 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10:00 – 12:00 Process 3 *
14h-16h Contents 5 economy and democratic confederalism
How do you run a democratic confederalist economy?
how digital economy can be integrated in geography based democratic confederalist economy
collective models of economy and private market economy could convive in confederalist economy?
A moral economy from a libertarian municipalism perspective – the importance of building alternative economy, without which the movement will fail; the potentials and dangers of cooperatives; against traditional socialist ideas of the economy.
The false answer of ‘green capitalism’
economic disobedience in the context of dual power building
17 – 19h workshops 4 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10 – 12 Process 5 *
14h-16h Contents 7 global issues and democratic confederalism
how to influence global institutions from bottom up democratic systems
how to make diplomacy without borders
line 9: development and human rights paradigm.
The need for internationalism.
Is there a need to create a dialogue between philosophical/spiritual/pschological discourses on the notion of wellbeing and justice articulated across time and space; How can eastern ad westen wisdom/indeginous and non indigious wisdom tradisions brught to bear on notions of democratic confederalism!
17 – 19h workshops 5 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Exploring What Matters – 8 week course // Hvað skiptir okkur raunverulega máli? – 8 vikna námskeið
“Hvað skiptir okkur raunverulega máli?” er einstakt og hvetjandi 8 vikna námskeið þar sem við skoðum hvað það þýðir að lifa hamingjusömu og innihaldsríku lífi. Námskeiðið byggir á nýjustu rannsóknum á hamingju og er ætlað öllum þeim sem hafa áhuga á að auka eigin hamingju og byggja upp jákvæðara og betra samfélag. Í hvert skipti er unnið með eitt þema sem byggir á einni spurningu, svo sem: Hvað virkilega skiptir okkur máli? Hvað gerir okkur hamingjusöm? og: Hvernig eigum við að koma fram við aðra?
// The Action for Happiness course is a unique and inspiring 8-week course to explore what matters for a happy and meaningful life. The course is based on the latest scientific evidence and is intended for people of all backgrounds, particularly those who would like to see a more positive and caring society. Each session has a theme, based on a ‘big question’, such as: What really matters in life? What actually makes us happy? And: How should we treat others?
Accessibility:
Anyone over 18 is welcome.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor. The event takes place on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
Friday 13 september morning
10-13 Process 6 and conclusions. *
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
An independently organised event.
Everyone is welcome! You don’t need any previous experience or special skills to join the class, but spots are limited though: if you want to be sure you will have a place to practice, contact me before.
I don’t provide yoga mats! If you don’t have any, let me know a day in advance – I’ll try to find some

Mondays 5.30-6:45 PM this summer in Andrymi.
Ewa Dwornik – 7837141
Mail: nofutureyoga@gmail.com,
Fb: m.me/nofutureyoga
Nothing more, nothing less, bless!
Accesibility: There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). The event takes place on the ground floor. There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
calendar
(English below)
“Hvað skiptir okkur raunverulega máli?” er einstakt og hvetjandi 8 vikna námskeið þar sem við skoðum hvað það þýðir að lifa hamingjusömu og innihaldsríku lífi. Námskeiðið byggir á nýjustu rannsóknum á hamingju og er ætlað öllum þeim sem hafa áhuga á að auka eigin hamingju og byggja upp jákvæðara og betra samfélag. Í hvert skipti er unnið með eitt þema sem byggir á einni spurningu, svo sem: Hvað virkilega skiptir okkur máli? Hvað gerir okkur hamingjusöm? og: Hvernig eigum við að koma fram við aðra?
// The Action for Happiness course is a unique and inspiring 8-week course to explore what matters for a happy and meaningful life. The course is based on the latest scientific evidence and is intended for people of all backgrounds, particularly those who would like to see a more positive and caring society. Each session has a theme, based on a ‘big question’, such as: What really matters in life? What actually makes us happy? And: How should we treat others?
Accessibility:
Anyone over 18 is welcome.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor. The event takes place on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
15h Introduction and presentations.
17h Contents 1: democratic confederalism. concepts, definitions
What we understand by democratic confederalism
the origen and the meaning of the term. From Bookchin to Ocalan
examples: Rojava
examples: zapatistas
– exemples we can find in western countries?
Discusion of a common bases of what it means in the context of the meeting?
The politics of libertarian municipalism
What is the State ???
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
An independently organised event hosted by Oktavia and Olga. NOTE: BOTH THE PROTEST ROOM AND THE LIBRARY ARE RESERVED FOR THE EVENT.
Partaking in demonstrations is a necessary act of societal participation. Doing so in a safer way and knowing your rights in Iceland is fundamental to any act of defiance.
During this workshop we will engage in safety in a holistic manner, digital, physical and most importantly psycho-social and self-care as well as get insight into the legal frameworks in Iceland that define what rights individuals have and what can be expected from law enforcement.
Accessibility:
Andrými is currently not accessible to wheelchairs, and challenging to access for people who have difficulties going up steps.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). The event takes place on the ground floor. There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral. Pronoun badges are available.
The library will serve as a space of calm for folx who need to minimize input (sound, light, people) and who need to be able to opt in and out of sessions. We will be able to have the workshop in multiple languages, English, Icelandic, Danish and basic Spanish. We will provide food and snack to make the space accessible to folx who have little leeway or space for extra budgetary considerations.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
10h – 12h Process 1 *
15.30- 17.30 h Contents 3 how to build processes of democratic confederalism
how we build it in one region where still nothing like that exist?
This would include to think together about a process where we are building a new system/meaning a new arquitecture of agreements/laws in a territory ruled by a nation/state, (include Route of power)
We have to include the use of strategical desobedience, the hack of legal systems to protect our process, etc.
Dual power theories should be included in this discusion,
The politics of libertarian municipalism
Building community where community no longer exists – everything in democratic confederalism extends from the basic layer. Community ties -> Political community -> Assemblies -> Taking local power -> Confederation -> Dual power.
The role of the revolutionary organisation – democratic confederalism fails without it. Which would be the adaptation of this kind of organization in western countries?
Revolutionary practice – thinking about how our means must be the same as our ends.
Avoiding co-optation by the State
The importance of political education How to acheive popular political education? Without it, the movement will fail, as we have been taught by examples in the US.
18 – 21 workshops 2 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
09.30-11.30 Process 2 *
12-14 h Contents 4 equalities and democratic confederalism
– issues of inequality
– gender equality
– rights of minorities
– micropowers dinamics
Means and ends – building liberatory movements (removing discrimination/oppression from our movement)
Understanding fascism
Radical democracy and empowered communities – the first defence against fascism.
18 – 20h workshops 3 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10:00 – 12:00 Process 3 *
14h-16h Contents 5 economy and democratic confederalism
How do you run a democratic confederalist economy?
how digital economy can be integrated in geography based democratic confederalist economy
collective models of economy and private market economy could convive in confederalist economy?
A moral economy from a libertarian municipalism perspective – the importance of building alternative economy, without which the movement will fail; the potentials and dangers of cooperatives; against traditional socialist ideas of the economy.
The false answer of ‘green capitalism’
economic disobedience in the context of dual power building
17 – 19h workshops 4 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
10 – 12 Process 5 *
14h-16h Contents 7 global issues and democratic confederalism
how to influence global institutions from bottom up democratic systems
how to make diplomacy without borders
line 9: development and human rights paradigm.
The need for internationalism.
Is there a need to create a dialogue between philosophical/spiritual/pschological discourses on the notion of wellbeing and justice articulated across time and space; How can eastern ad westen wisdom/indeginous and non indigious wisdom tradisions brught to bear on notions of democratic confederalism!
17 – 19h workshops 5 **
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
** Workshops meetings
A workshop is a small group meeting which could have different reasons:-
– to explain a specific knowledge or experience
– to discuss and develop a proposal to be presented later in plenary
– to discuss a topic with much more detail than in plenary.
– to train in specific habilities.
– …..
A workshop needs one person or collective responsible of it.
In general the workshops will be offline or online, any physical participant or online participant could propose one at least the day before, and invite others to join.
The agenda will be updated daily with the info about the workshops and how to access them.
(English below)
“Hvað skiptir okkur raunverulega máli?” er einstakt og hvetjandi 8 vikna námskeið þar sem við skoðum hvað það þýðir að lifa hamingjusömu og innihaldsríku lífi. Námskeiðið byggir á nýjustu rannsóknum á hamingju og er ætlað öllum þeim sem hafa áhuga á að auka eigin hamingju og byggja upp jákvæðara og betra samfélag. Í hvert skipti er unnið með eitt þema sem byggir á einni spurningu, svo sem: Hvað virkilega skiptir okkur máli? Hvað gerir okkur hamingjusöm? og: Hvernig eigum við að koma fram við aðra?
// The Action for Happiness course is a unique and inspiring 8-week course to explore what matters for a happy and meaningful life. The course is based on the latest scientific evidence and is intended for people of all backgrounds, particularly those who would like to see a more positive and caring society. Each session has a theme, based on a ‘big question’, such as: What really matters in life? What actually makes us happy? And: How should we treat others?
Accessibility:
Anyone over 18 is welcome.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor. The event takes place on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
https://democraticconfederalism.earth/meeting-program/
Accessibility: Andrými is highly unaccessible for people with disabilities. The group organising offers that if there is anyone willing to join with specific disability they will do their best to work around the accessibility issue with personal assistance.
Friday 13 september morning
10-13 Process 6 and conclusions. *
* Process meetings will be run as it was a long assembly distributed in different periods of 2 hours. We are adding topics to the general discusion and will control the times during the meetings. Introduction: The short process until this preliminary meeting what this space is aiming to become, how should be organized, ( delegation and decision taking methods ), who should be part of it, (can we all agree in the same vision?), how do we collaborate with other existing, initiatives/processes which share similiar visions?- whilst avoiding cooptation. goals and roadmap in one year. a main event for june/july 2020 ?
– The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will be happening at the end of June of 2020 so we need to think strategically on whether and how we want to collaborate with them and take this into account when setting the date of the bigger meeting (would be happy to facilitate this discussion).
– perhaps our main event in 2020 could be distributed by continents, making possible to reduce travel impact a and expand the participation to much more people, more bottom up, in coherence with democratic confederalism
An independently organised event.
Everyone is welcome! You don’t need any previous experience or special skills to join the class, but spots are limited though: if you want to be sure you will have a place to practice, contact me before.
I don’t provide yoga mats! If you don’t have any, let me know a day in advance – I’ll try to find some

Mondays 5.30-6:45 PM this summer in Andrymi.
Ewa Dwornik – 7837141
Mail: nofutureyoga@gmail.com,
Fb: m.me/nofutureyoga
Nothing more, nothing less, bless!
Accesibility: There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). The event takes place on the ground floor. There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
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