As we enter the new year, and go from midwinter towards early spring, these evenings around the fire are an opportunity to explore what is calling us - where are we called to bring our attention as the seeds prepare to become shoots overground.

For five monday evenings will gather with the fire as our center and the forest around us. We will spend time sharing around the fire, and going out in the forest to encounter the beings there as well as the different parts of ourselves that come alive through these encounters.

who

This is for you if you recognize yourself in some of the below:

- You long to ask deeper questions for yourself and in community with others

- You find it overwhelming to be a human in these times of polycrisis and don't know how to be in that, or dont want to be carrying that alone.

- You know that you need deep soul/heart nourishment to have strength to be with the uncertainties of our time.

- You long to belong without having to perform.
- You long to connect more with nature - inside yourself and around you

- You want to spend some time this winter sitting in the dark around a fire and be together in a way humans have been together for about 1 mio years.

what

As we go through these evenings, there will be a focus both on following each persons individual thread of what is unfolding, and paying attention to the collective threads, listening for how our diversity of voices weave together. We are more than a bunch of individuals coming together to do self-development. We are learning to listen to the collective wisdom that comes from each of us bringing ourselves there more fully.

We will share stories and stirrings around the fire through the practice of 'council' - a group communication practice that recognizes that each of us carries a piece of the whole, and through sharing in these ways we can practice finding our own voice, opening up to others, embracing differences and listening for the collective story. We will get to know the different forms of council, and learn by practicing.

Each time there will be a prompt to go into the forest with; an invitation that helps us open up the wisdom that comes from these encounters between our inner nature - our feelings, intuition and curiosity - and the outer nature - all the being and elements and life we are entangled with.

In between each fire, there will be suggested practices or resources to dive deeper into.

This offering is inspired by my experience of holding similar regular fire gatherings open for anybody the last two winters.
Now I long to go deeper with an ongoing group, to be able to build on what we move through together and to go deeper into the practices, the teachings and the relationships built.

"you can feel that Anna holds the space from lived experience and from their own wild queer being, their open being themself ~ that makes it possible for me to be me. I love that there is no set way to do things in the invitations Anna brings in. We are all adventurers."

• - Hannah, participant in fire gatherings

"After a fire evening I always think: "What is it I choose to spend my life on? Why is it so important to get up, fo to work, come home, lay in the couch and watch TV, just to then start over agan? Why can we not have a fire evening every evening".

- Embla, participant in fire gatherings

practicalities

When: Following Mondays from 17-19.30: 19/1, 26/1, 2/2, 9/2 and 16/2.

Commitment to the whole journey is required, and we can talk about it if you are unable to attend one of the evenings. It will be a group of max 8 people.

Where: A public fireplace in the forests/beaches of Aarhus

For signing up, please send an email to anna.irgensmoller@gmail.com

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gifting

I am finding my way, and learning along the way, with working with gift economy, while living in a capitalist system. It is important for me that this is accessible for people in all financial situations, and that it is not a commodity. I will offer this as a gift as I have done previous times, but this time make my own financial situation and the work that goes into this more transparent.

For the money that comes in to match the time I put into it, and my own basic financial needs (as well as VAT and tax requirements), the total amount coming in should be 10.000 kr.

With a group of 8 participants, that is 1200 kr/ person for the whole journey, and if there are 5 participants, it is 2000 kr/person.

I am writing this to give you something to navigate from, not to make a set price. Please feel into what you can and will give, knowing that your worth or generosity does not depend whether you give less or more. There is also a possibility of giving in several rates or getting in touch with me about other forms of exchange.
I thank you for being with me in this enquiry of healing our relationship to money, detangling it from our worth, recognizing our privileges and trusting the flow of money.