Who are we and why are we here? Beginning a utopian emergence process
Channel: Come Together Counseling
Date: 2024-02-27

This video is the first in my utopian emergence series, as previously announced in my video, "Utopian Emergence." In this series we'll be exploring the concept of utopia and what it will look like to engage with it creatively. If you follow along with me on this journey throughout this series, you'll get the opportunity to engage with what YOU think utopia could be.

My initial plans with this series were to have a discussion group running alongside it, but that's not going to work out this time. However, there WILL be a discussion group in the future - probably right after all the videos in the series are out.

In this video I discuss the initial "getting to know you" steps of building an intentional group centered around utopia, as well as this question of how are we going to engage with utopia.

The icebreaker engagement questions are, "What important identities do you hold? What do those identities mean to you? How did you come to understand yourself in this way?"

and, "What does utopia mean to you? How did you develop this understanding of utopia? What are your hopes in engaging with this concept of utopia?"

00:00 Introduction
00:53 Chapter One: Who are we? (Building Relationships)
06:37 Interlude
07:59 Chapter Two: Why are we here? (Purpose)
12:13 Chapter Three: Looking to the next video: Why dystopia? (Looking at the world)

Thumbnail Credits: Photos by NASA and Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

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Intro/Outro music by CAMPERGRAY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3geOZzWJmUTkxpX8BPIRTI

Interlude background music recorded by meeeeee