Dear lovely faeries,
This email contains instructions for participating in and creating heart space for this weekend's international on-line faerie heart circle. We encourage you to read this entire email, which includes important information about the unique world of on-line heart space. We strongly encourage you to join us--- we have received RSVPs from faeries around the world, including our brave fae sisters in Bangkok, who will be waking up to log in at 4AM Sunday, Thailand time. Faeries have also RSVPd from Seoul, Madrid, England, Germany, and Australia. We will be well-represented with Americans and Canadians also.
Why are we doing it? Because the heart circle is such an important tool/technology for spreading faerie consciousness. Some faeries are unable to access heart circles at in-person gatherings. We also are aware that a new generation of potential faeries is making a regular home on the internet, and we need to figure out how to engage with them. So we are doing this experiment.
This email, describing that experiment, includes four sections:
1) Logging in to the heart space
2) Creating the heart space
3) Cautions and Caveats and
4) Documenting the experience (so we can improve it even further in the future).
Please note: the password for the Radical Faerie chatroom you will enter is Yoohoo . We encourage you to print out this entire email and have it handy during the heart circle.
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A word of encouragement: Though these directions may seem complicated, they are easy to learn, and your log-in process will become very easy once you have experimented a bit. So please, if you have time, play around in Stickam prior to this weekend's circle.
1) LOGGING INTO THE HEART SPACE (we encourage you to try these steps prior to the circle itself-- you can try out the chatroom directions on another existing chatroom):
a. Using Stickam as a site for heart circles: Stickam is designed to allow multiple users to join a video/audio/text conversation. When you join the Radical Faerie room, you can 1) see and hear participants in the room who are on camera or have microphones; 2) transmit your own video/audio; and 3) enter text into the text chat. If you do not have a video camera or microphone, you can still participate in the circle by typing your comments into the text box.
b. Joining Stickam: Point your brower to www.stickam.com/viewJoin.do . Sign up for a free membership. You may want to consider using your faerie name as your login name. Complete the registration process.
c. Now login to Stickam with your username and password.
d. Point your browser to the Chat Room area (listed on the menu at the top of the page): www.stickam.com/chatRoomEn.do . A list of available chat rooms will appear. Scroll through the list and find the room named "Radical Faeries". Click on the button "Enter" next to this chat room, and you will be prompted for a password. Enter: Yoohoo . Note: The Radical Faerie chatroom will be available starting at 3PM Eastern Standard Time Saturday, USA, and the circle will begin at 4PM Saturday EST. Please join the room early if you wish to try out its features prior to the beginning of the circle. We are passwording the chatroom in order to avoid the possibility of random, curious stickam members joining the room.
e. You will now be asked to click on acceptance of the Stickam rules. Click OK.
f. You will now enter the Radical Faerie heart space. The room contains three windowpanes: 1) a windowpane containing 12 boxes in which you can see participants who have cameras/microphones. 2) a windowpane for text chat and 3) a windowpane that lists all faeries who are currently in the heart space (including you).
g. Special Note for those wishing to use video/audio: In order to use the video/audio feature, you must set the Flash player to find the video camera and microphone on your computer. To do this, position your cursor over one of the twelve video boxes, and right click (Windows)/ ctrl click (Mac) to bring up the Flash options. Look for the small icons for a microphone and a video camera, and click on these to make sure that they are set corrrectly for the microphone and video camera resident on your computer. For those who need help with this, please arrive at the Radical Faerie heart space early and we will do a short tutorial on setting up cameras/microphones. If you are able to get on-line in advance to try video/audio in another chatroom we recommend this.
Once your audio/video is set up, you can click on one of the 12 available boxes and a dialogue box will pop up asking if you allow the flash player to access your video and audio. If you click "Allow", your video and/or audio will stream into the stickam system, and you will be viewable and hearable.
h. How do I choose which faeries I get to see in the video boxes? You have the ability to choose which faeries you see in the 12 video boxes. If there are more than 12 faeries with us this weekend who have video or audio, you can "dock" and "undock" faeries from the windows. To undock (remove) someone, simply click their window and look for a small "x". When you click on this "x", the faerie in that window will disappear (though you will still be able to hear them). To "dock" (add) a faerie into an empty box, click on her/his name in the list of faeries to the right, and if he/she has a camera/mic available, you will see the "dock" option when you click on their name, and simply click on "dock" to have them appear in one of the empty boxes. Note: You can only dock someone if there is an empty box for them, so you may need to undock someone if all boxes are occupied.
i. A note on lag: Since stickam will be managing audio/video/text streams from around the world, there is sometimes a lag from the time you type/speak, to the time that others are able to read/hear. Please be patient and wait for the words to arrive.
j. A note on muting: We recommend muting your microphone if you are not speaking. This both reduces noise, and reduces the amount of information that stickam must process, thus reducing lag. So please- mute your mic if you are not speaking.
k. A note on freezing: Sometimes (depending upon your internet connection) you will see the room freeze up. If this occurs, click on the "Reload" button at the top of the chatroom.
2. CREATING THE HEART SPACE
a. A note on time: Since participants will be joining us from multiple time zones, and both daylight and standard time zones, we encourage you to check to make sure that you join us at the right time. The heart space will be opened by Lady B, who is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This is Eastern Time Zone, USA. You can see the time details for Philadelphia at www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html . The heart space will open at 3PM EST Saturday, and the circle will begin at 4PM EST Saturday. If you have any questions or are unsure of your relative time, please contact us at bartlett.cd@gmail.com .
b. Grounding: We recommend that you arrive at the heart space early if possible. You should have some time to do personal grounding, become acquainted with the space, and ask questions. We welcome grounding rituals, such as burning of sage, lighting candles, chanting songs, etc. We have a huge global heart space to create, and we need you to bring all of your magic and rituals with you.
c. Being present for the Circle: It may be tempting to multitask while in the heart circle (check email, surf the web, etc.). We recommend that you take a risk of being fully present for the circle while it lasts.
d. Opening of the Circle: The Circle will open at approximately 4:05 PM EST Saturday. We will most likely follow a format that looks (approximately) like this:
1. Introduction to the Heart Space / How to participate/ What is a heart circle
2. Introductions of all circle participants (brief hello-- name, and one fun detail about yourself).
3. Announcements from the Circle
4. Grounding of the Circle
- Grounding Ritual
- Calling the Directions (we still need folks for many of the directions- contact bartlett.cd@gmail.com if you are interested).
i. North
ii. South
iii. East
iv. West
v. Center (Dirt, Bremerton, Washington State, USA).
- Reading of the Tarot Card (FireRising, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
e. Sharing from the Heart (we will complete at least one round of the circle, and seek consensus about whether to continue after that).
f. Closing ritual
3. Cautions and Guidelines
a. The internet is a porous space, and you should expect that there is a possibility that anything you say or type could be recorded by some person or group. We want you to be aware of this reality. Given this reality, we discourage sharing of illegal activities in the Circle, but we will not (of course) censor anything that is said. Just keep in mind the realities of electronic communication in the modern era.
b. This heart circle is an important experiment. It will no doubt be gorgeously imperfect. Please keep your own notes on what you think works and doesn't work, so that you can share them with the person/s who will be documenting the circle.
c. . What is the talking stick? Faeries are used to having a physical talking stick that indicates who is sharing. Since we will not be able to pass a physical talking stick, we will make use of the list of chat participants (in the right hand windowpane) and proceed down the list both for introductions and heart sharing. When you are finished sharing, you could say "I pass the talking stick to (next person on list of faeries)."
d. Language: This weekend's circle will be facilitated in English, but we welcome faeries who speak other languages. Please speak/type the language you are most comfortable speaking.
4) Documenting the Experience: A number of us (including Cetacea from Texas, USA) will be helping to document the experience. If you have written comments, please send them to bartlett.cd@gmail.com. We are hoping to being to have regular on-line circles, and we want to make them as powerful as possible.
I think that is it for now. Please do call/email with questions. Lady B's phone is (1)-267-977-0638, AOL Chat=bartlettfree; Skype= harveymilk email= bartlett.cd@gmail.com .
We are very excited for this adventure!
Lady b Philadelphia Awen Storm Madrid
SAVE THE DATE-- Saturday, December 15th and Sunday, December 16th
(PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CORRECT TIME ZONE- CORRECT YOUR TIME FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IF NECESSARY--- ALL TIMES FROM GMT-- EMAIL IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS).
11 AM (Sunday) Chatham Island
10 AM (Sunday) Auckland
9 AM (Sunday) Suva
8 AM (Sunday) Faerieland Sanctuary, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne
7 AM (Sunday) Brisbane, Adelaide
6 AM (Sunday) Perth, Tokyo, Seoul
5 AM (Sunday) Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong
4 AM (Sunday) Bangkok, Hanoi
3 AM (Sunday) Kathmandu
2 AM (Sunday) Islamabad, New Delhi
1 AM (Sunday) Tehran, Dubai
12 Midnight (Sunday) Baghdad/Moscow
11PM (Saturday) Cape Town, Athens, Jerusalem
10 PM (Saturday) Folleterre, Terschelling, Rheingold Faeries, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris,
9 PM (Saturday) GMT, Edward Carpenter Community, Dublin, London, Casablanca
7 PM (Saturday) Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro
6 PM (Saturday) Santiago, Buenos Aires
5 PM (Saturday) San Juan, Halifax
4 PM(Saturday) EST, Destiny, Blue Heron, Hermitage, Amber Fox, Philadelphia, New York, Havana
3 PM (Saturday) CST, Short Mountain, Kawashaway, San Salvador
2 PM (Saturday) MST, Denver, Zuni Mountain Sanctuary, Nayarit-Mexico.
1 PM (Saturday) PST Breitenbush, Wolf Creek, San Francisco, Seattle, Starland Retreat
11 AM (Saturday) Kalani Resort, Hawaii
This email contains instructions for participating in and creating heart space for this weekend's international on-line faerie heart circle. We encourage you to read this entire email, which includes important information about the unique world of on-line heart space. We strongly encourage you to join us--- we have received RSVPs from faeries around the world, including our brave fae sisters in Bangkok, who will be waking up to log in at 4AM Sunday, Thailand time. Faeries have also RSVPd from Seoul, Madrid, England, Germany, and Australia. We will be well-represented with Americans and Canadians also.
Why are we doing it? Because the heart circle is such an important tool/technology for spreading faerie consciousness. Some faeries are unable to access heart circles at in-person gatherings. We also are aware that a new generation of potential faeries is making a regular home on the internet, and we need to figure out how to engage with them. So we are doing this experiment.
This email, describing that experiment, includes four sections:
1) Logging in to the heart space
2) Creating the heart space
3) Cautions and Caveats and
4) Documenting the experience (so we can improve it even further in the future).
Please note: the password for the Radical Faerie chatroom you will enter is Yoohoo . We encourage you to print out this entire email and have it handy during the heart circle.
===============================
A word of encouragement: Though these directions may seem complicated, they are easy to learn, and your log-in process will become very easy once you have experimented a bit. So please, if you have time, play around in Stickam prior to this weekend's circle.
1) LOGGING INTO THE HEART SPACE (we encourage you to try these steps prior to the circle itself-- you can try out the chatroom directions on another existing chatroom):
a. Using Stickam as a site for heart circles: Stickam is designed to allow multiple users to join a video/audio/text conversation. When you join the Radical Faerie room, you can 1) see and hear participants in the room who are on camera or have microphones; 2) transmit your own video/audio; and 3) enter text into the text chat. If you do not have a video camera or microphone, you can still participate in the circle by typing your comments into the text box.
b. Joining Stickam: Point your brower to www.stickam.com/viewJoin.do . Sign up for a free membership. You may want to consider using your faerie name as your login name. Complete the registration process.
c. Now login to Stickam with your username and password.
d. Point your browser to the Chat Room area (listed on the menu at the top of the page): www.stickam.com/chatRoomEn.do . A list of available chat rooms will appear. Scroll through the list and find the room named "Radical Faeries". Click on the button "Enter" next to this chat room, and you will be prompted for a password. Enter: Yoohoo . Note: The Radical Faerie chatroom will be available starting at 3PM Eastern Standard Time Saturday, USA, and the circle will begin at 4PM Saturday EST. Please join the room early if you wish to try out its features prior to the beginning of the circle. We are passwording the chatroom in order to avoid the possibility of random, curious stickam members joining the room.
e. You will now be asked to click on acceptance of the Stickam rules. Click OK.
f. You will now enter the Radical Faerie heart space. The room contains three windowpanes: 1) a windowpane containing 12 boxes in which you can see participants who have cameras/microphones. 2) a windowpane for text chat and 3) a windowpane that lists all faeries who are currently in the heart space (including you).
g. Special Note for those wishing to use video/audio: In order to use the video/audio feature, you must set the Flash player to find the video camera and microphone on your computer. To do this, position your cursor over one of the twelve video boxes, and right click (Windows)/ ctrl click (Mac) to bring up the Flash options. Look for the small icons for a microphone and a video camera, and click on these to make sure that they are set corrrectly for the microphone and video camera resident on your computer. For those who need help with this, please arrive at the Radical Faerie heart space early and we will do a short tutorial on setting up cameras/microphones. If you are able to get on-line in advance to try video/audio in another chatroom we recommend this.
Once your audio/video is set up, you can click on one of the 12 available boxes and a dialogue box will pop up asking if you allow the flash player to access your video and audio. If you click "Allow", your video and/or audio will stream into the stickam system, and you will be viewable and hearable.
h. How do I choose which faeries I get to see in the video boxes? You have the ability to choose which faeries you see in the 12 video boxes. If there are more than 12 faeries with us this weekend who have video or audio, you can "dock" and "undock" faeries from the windows. To undock (remove) someone, simply click their window and look for a small "x". When you click on this "x", the faerie in that window will disappear (though you will still be able to hear them). To "dock" (add) a faerie into an empty box, click on her/his name in the list of faeries to the right, and if he/she has a camera/mic available, you will see the "dock" option when you click on their name, and simply click on "dock" to have them appear in one of the empty boxes. Note: You can only dock someone if there is an empty box for them, so you may need to undock someone if all boxes are occupied.
i. A note on lag: Since stickam will be managing audio/video/text streams from around the world, there is sometimes a lag from the time you type/speak, to the time that others are able to read/hear. Please be patient and wait for the words to arrive.
j. A note on muting: We recommend muting your microphone if you are not speaking. This both reduces noise, and reduces the amount of information that stickam must process, thus reducing lag. So please- mute your mic if you are not speaking.
k. A note on freezing: Sometimes (depending upon your internet connection) you will see the room freeze up. If this occurs, click on the "Reload" button at the top of the chatroom.
2. CREATING THE HEART SPACE
a. A note on time: Since participants will be joining us from multiple time zones, and both daylight and standard time zones, we encourage you to check to make sure that you join us at the right time. The heart space will be opened by Lady B, who is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This is Eastern Time Zone, USA. You can see the time details for Philadelphia at www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html . The heart space will open at 3PM EST Saturday, and the circle will begin at 4PM EST Saturday. If you have any questions or are unsure of your relative time, please contact us at bartlett.cd@gmail.com .
b. Grounding: We recommend that you arrive at the heart space early if possible. You should have some time to do personal grounding, become acquainted with the space, and ask questions. We welcome grounding rituals, such as burning of sage, lighting candles, chanting songs, etc. We have a huge global heart space to create, and we need you to bring all of your magic and rituals with you.
c. Being present for the Circle: It may be tempting to multitask while in the heart circle (check email, surf the web, etc.). We recommend that you take a risk of being fully present for the circle while it lasts.
d. Opening of the Circle: The Circle will open at approximately 4:05 PM EST Saturday. We will most likely follow a format that looks (approximately) like this:
1. Introduction to the Heart Space / How to participate/ What is a heart circle
2. Introductions of all circle participants (brief hello-- name, and one fun detail about yourself).
3. Announcements from the Circle
4. Grounding of the Circle
- Grounding Ritual
- Calling the Directions (we still need folks for many of the directions- contact bartlett.cd@gmail.com if you are interested).
i. North
ii. South
iii. East
iv. West
v. Center (Dirt, Bremerton, Washington State, USA).
- Reading of the Tarot Card (FireRising, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
e. Sharing from the Heart (we will complete at least one round of the circle, and seek consensus about whether to continue after that).
f. Closing ritual
3. Cautions and Guidelines
a. The internet is a porous space, and you should expect that there is a possibility that anything you say or type could be recorded by some person or group. We want you to be aware of this reality. Given this reality, we discourage sharing of illegal activities in the Circle, but we will not (of course) censor anything that is said. Just keep in mind the realities of electronic communication in the modern era.
b. This heart circle is an important experiment. It will no doubt be gorgeously imperfect. Please keep your own notes on what you think works and doesn't work, so that you can share them with the person/s who will be documenting the circle.
c. . What is the talking stick? Faeries are used to having a physical talking stick that indicates who is sharing. Since we will not be able to pass a physical talking stick, we will make use of the list of chat participants (in the right hand windowpane) and proceed down the list both for introductions and heart sharing. When you are finished sharing, you could say "I pass the talking stick to (next person on list of faeries)."
d. Language: This weekend's circle will be facilitated in English, but we welcome faeries who speak other languages. Please speak/type the language you are most comfortable speaking.
4) Documenting the Experience: A number of us (including Cetacea from Texas, USA) will be helping to document the experience. If you have written comments, please send them to bartlett.cd@gmail.com. We are hoping to being to have regular on-line circles, and we want to make them as powerful as possible.
I think that is it for now. Please do call/email with questions. Lady B's phone is (1)-267-977-0638, AOL Chat=bartlettfree; Skype= harveymilk email= bartlett.cd@gmail.com .
We are very excited for this adventure!
Lady b Philadelphia Awen Storm Madrid
SAVE THE DATE-- Saturday, December 15th and Sunday, December 16th
(PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CORRECT TIME ZONE- CORRECT YOUR TIME FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS IF NECESSARY--- ALL TIMES FROM GMT-- EMAIL IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS).
11 AM (Sunday) Chatham Island
10 AM (Sunday) Auckland
9 AM (Sunday) Suva
8 AM (Sunday) Faerieland Sanctuary, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne
7 AM (Sunday) Brisbane, Adelaide
6 AM (Sunday) Perth, Tokyo, Seoul
5 AM (Sunday) Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong
4 AM (Sunday) Bangkok, Hanoi
3 AM (Sunday) Kathmandu
2 AM (Sunday) Islamabad, New Delhi
1 AM (Sunday) Tehran, Dubai
12 Midnight (Sunday) Baghdad/Moscow
11PM (Saturday) Cape Town, Athens, Jerusalem
10 PM (Saturday) Folleterre, Terschelling, Rheingold Faeries, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris,
9 PM (Saturday) GMT, Edward Carpenter Community, Dublin, London, Casablanca
7 PM (Saturday) Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro
6 PM (Saturday) Santiago, Buenos Aires
5 PM (Saturday) San Juan, Halifax
4 PM(Saturday) EST, Destiny, Blue Heron, Hermitage, Amber Fox, Philadelphia, New York, Havana
3 PM (Saturday) CST, Short Mountain, Kawashaway, San Salvador
2 PM (Saturday) MST, Denver, Zuni Mountain Sanctuary, Nayarit-Mexico.
1 PM (Saturday) PST Breitenbush, Wolf Creek, San Francisco, Seattle, Starland Retreat
11 AM (Saturday) Kalani Resort, Hawaii
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