Contemplating Country - A contemplative practice to honour First Nations and connect with Country

When: 3:30 to 5:00 pm, Wednesday 13 March 2024
Where: We will start at the Drill Hall at the Multicultural Hub, 26 Therry Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 and walk to Lincoln Square, Bouverie Street, South Carlton, 3053 together.

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XR Vic Regen honours the sovereignty of First Nations peoples of the lands on which we rebel. Join us to experience a practice of Acknowledging Country, co-designed with First Nation’s Practitioners and XR Regen Crew. In the practice we sit in circle, listen deeply and contemplate country: the blessings of land, water, people, culture, spirit.

This space can be a place for rest and calm in between actions, and to learn a contemplative way to Acknowledge Country in meetings.

What to expect: We will walk together from the Drill Hall to Lincoln Gardens and sit in a circle. We will start as always with Acknowledgements of Country, of the Climate Crisis and a Regen reminder. We will formulate Group Agreements, the things that we need from the group to ensure that we feel safer. We encourage you to participate in any way you feel able to.

Then, in small groups we will create a shared reflection on love and courage by taking it in turns to reflect on a prompt or on what the previous speaker shared. We speak or sit in silence. We pause and pass to another person.

We reflect together on the experience.

We will be at Lincoln Square when U. Bill arrives to set up and ready to listen, learn and respectfully acknowledge the smoking ceremony which starts at 5:00 pm. Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/acknowledgement-of-country-rebel-4-life?source=direct_link&

Covid safety

Covid still hasn’t gone away so, if you’re coming to the Drill Hall, we are asking you to take a RAT test and to seriously consider wearing an N95-or-higher mask indoors.  N95 masks and surgical masks, RATs and hand sanitiser will be available at the Welcome Table. Let’s keep each other safe to keep on rebelling for life.

This contemplative action is part of Extinction Rebellion Victoria’s Rebel For Life, four days of action on climate.

Extinction Rebellion Victoria acknowledges that we rebel on the stolen lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.