Growing Mycelial Care Networks

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Sam & Sadie Koenig Community Garden
237 East 7th Street
New York

Mushrooms are natural community organizers…what can we learn from them about selfhood, care, and reciprocity?
I and Thou relationships with other beings 
Mycelial networks – what anarchist principles do they reflect? Autonomy, mutual aid, free association
Relationship anarchy.
How can we relate to other species in a way that recognizes their full being? And how can this nurture our own capacities for care of other people and our world?
Please join us for this hybrid workshop & discussion where we will:


🍄Explore how we can decolonize our understanding of care by practicing mutual aid


🍄Reflect on systemic (including the ‘mental health care’ system) and communal failures of care that we have experienced


🍄Discuss how we can grow sustainable mycelial networks of communal care as an act of resistance to systems of oppression


🍄Look at mycelium and hear about relationship cultivated through study


This event will also include group discussion on healing-centered harm reduction, the impact of identity and intersectionality on these topics, as well as how we can center the values of anti-racism, anti-capitalism and the dismantling of white supremacy through our relationship with ourselves, each other and society at large.