For the Love of bell, Communion: The Female Search for Love | A Soils Lab with Danielle Dominique | Practice Map

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For the love of bell, Communion: The Female Search for Love

Soils Lab with Danielle Dominique | Practice Map

 

monday | 16 May 2022 | 6pm Est

The third session in the For the Love of bell series explores the third book in her love trilogy, Communion: The Female Search for Love.

The final part in her series on love, this lab will examine bell hooks’ Communion: The Female Search for Love. Mama bell goes THERE in this book, so expect it to get uncomfortable. While reading it forced me to have some conversations that were difficult but illuminating. Of course we will try to keep it light but hopefully this lab will inspire you to be thoughtful and kind with yourself as we go deep.

This has been a journey for me, rediscovering how I first met and fell in love with bell hooks’ work. I wanted to do her proud as I presented excerpts from her work that I felt would spark conversation or that I just found fascinating. Mama bell did not disappoint. This labor has been intensive yet satisfying. I hope she is up there smiling.

Revisit the earlier sessions in the For the Love of bell series:
Part 1: All About Love: New Visions
Part 2: Salvation: Black People and Love

this soils lab includes these elements:

Presentation/lecture


 

Excerpt from Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks.

 

meet the creator

Danielle Dominique
Danielle Dominique is a lover and a dreamer, who enjoys cheering for others and witnessing them walk in their purpose. Discovering that about myself has been the beginning of so many more dreams to come.
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about our soils lab

Soils Lab is a central component of Mother Mother’s evolving creative practice methodology, An Introduction to Soils: Preparing the Heart, Mind and Body for Deeply Generative Creations.

Soils Labs are where we explore practices that nourish our soil of creation, the substance from which we create everything we do. Soils Labs journey into diverse creative realms like writing, storytelling, visual art, sacred rituals, healing practices, movement, birth and fertility studies, and so much more. Every creator shares from the wealth of her brilliance, and we all grow from there.

attending soils lab

Soils Labs are collaborative-time, virtual gatherings. To honor and protect the intimacy of our sharing, Soils Labs are not recorded. We are a Come As You Are congregation and you are welcome to attend as much or as little of the lab as you like. You must be a creator in the Garden who has confirmed conscious participation to receive the access link for the labs. Please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center to join the Garden and begin attending Soils Labs. If you have recently or previously joined the Garden, visit the Sanctuary to confirm or reconfirm your conscious participation.

About soft-time

The Garden thrives in soft-time expansions. While the Soils Lab is a collaborative-time gathering, we consciously create multiple points of engagement for all creators to participate in the majesty of our explorations and experiments, whether or not you attend the lab. In addition to the practice maps, our Soils Labs are archived in multiple places inside the Creators Portal and the Creators Shared Diary. We also extend conversations and discovery opportunities in the Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties groups. Mattering soft-time practice spaces is a vital way that we disrupt mandates of capitalism, and continue to decentralize fixed-time and cumpulsory-time standards as universally legitimate and relevant. In making space for the diversity of our life rhythms and labors, we take great care to develop generative, nourishing methodologies that honor the fluid nature of our lives as creators.

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