2021 YES! Jam Alumni Learning Journey!
We are so excited to invite you to our first Jam Alumni Learning Journey– a 3 day series for jam alumni across the globe to connect, to refresh and practice jam tools, and to explore how to jam in our daily lives. The details are:
Jam Alumni Learning Journey
November 18th, 19th & 20th
9 am PST / 12 pm EST / 8 pm TRT / 10:30 pm IST
2.5 hrs
Facilitants: Joy George & Nandita Batheja
Each day will have a different theme, though in every call we will have time to share stories, play, practice jam tools, and think about how we can apply these insights/practices to our lives.
This series is a prelude to a longer learning journey for alumni that we are lovingly cooking up for the spring. More info on that to come 🙂
Note: We know this is not an ideal time zone for all regions. We are experimenting with this time for now, and will be trying out different time zones in the future!
Session Themes:
November 18th: Self — reflection, remembering, re-setting
November 19th: Kinship — exploring and strengthening our interpersonal webs
November 20th: Systems — our roles in systemic change and how to give/receive support
Cost & Registration:
We invite your contribution for what you can afford at this time. We know that everyone is coming from a different personal situation and global context, and we leave it to you to decide what to offer. We lovingly suggest landing somewhere between “easeful” to “generous”.
If you are paying in U.S. currency, you can send contributions by check to 3240 King St, Berkeley CA 94703 USA or through PayPal to yesjamfinances@gmail.com. Otherwise, let us know in your registration what currency you’d like to pay in, and we will follow up with logistics through email.
If you’re interested, please register here. Your payment will serve as confirmation for your registration. We will be closing the journey at 20 participants, so please sign up early if you know you want to come! Please plan to attend all three sessions.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email Nandita (nandita@yesworld.org) or Joy (joy@yesworld.org).
We hope to see you there!
With love,
Nandita & Joy
Organizer
Joy George, born and raised in the Bronx as the daughter of Nigerian diaspora, has found herself at the intersections of love, transformation, restoration and social change in her work and activism. A graduate of NYC Public Schools and Swarthmore College now working in the state of Maine at Mindbridge and the Restorative Justice Institute of Maine, she is working towards planting and watering the seeds of restorative culture. After serving as a counselor at Seeds of Peace International Camp in the summer of 2019, Joy attended the 2019 North American Leadership Jam and found herself blessed with radical healing, truth and community– and now she is back again for more!
Nandita Batheja (she/they) is a facilitator, artist, question-asker and community weaver who works across sectors, advocating for justice, liberation and creative being. They believe imagination is crucial to change-work and that play is freedom’s underdog. Traveling between the worlds of education, nonprofits, artist residencies and decentralized movement spaces, Nandita has followed a life-long desire to tend to these questions: How do we build ecologies of right relationship and spiritual bravery in our relationships, actions, systems and creations? What is it to live the world we are dreaming, to every-day-it into existence? These questions and more are what guided Nandita to YES! and their current work in the world.
In addition to Jams, Nandita studies and practices the somatics of living, aging & dying to help herself and others navigate these tumultuous times. Nandita also facilitates with Equal Justice USA, leads InterPlay, and recently co-founded (with two other Jammers!) the Stingray Virtual Artist Residency – an international community art residency that encourages individuals to stand strong in their not-for-capital creative intelligence, and to mutually support each other’s artistic journeys. Nandita is currently based in San Diego, with roots reaching to New York, India, Indonesia, the-in-between and the sky.
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