| Your Name | Casey Pilgeram |
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| Email Address | cpilgeram@hotmail.com |
| Cohort Assignment | Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Santa Fe, Winter-Spring 2025 |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Mother to Runa (4) and Samih (5), wife, neighbor, organizer to change our inherited public education model. |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I see my role as revealing existing (often invisible) systems, activating people, and inviting exploration of our unlimited human potential! I have access to many bring, inspiring people through living in co-housing with many change-makers. I have a large shared space to invite people in for food and gathering. |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I want to help, along with many others, birth a new, human-centered (brain & relationship, project-based, future thinking) public education system. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | I would like to learn how to identify my feelings and needs more readily. I would like to decrease how often I take things personally. I would like to practice better self-care (more sleep and exercise). I would like to be able to respond honestly, without sugar-coating something. |
| 5. And for professional growth? | I would like to learn how to be a more effective organizer! I'm taking an intensive training for this for a week in May. |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have invested in the creative works of many- read many books... listened to lots of music... looked at lots of art. I try to be present and curious about the wisdom of elders and children. I have put countless hours of free time (many hundreds probably) to get where I'm at. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Buddhism, Quakerism, feminism, queer theory, Indigenous wisdom, permacultural thinkers, philosophy, political science, naturalist thinkers. Just observing the changing seasons. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I believe that humans are expressions of consciousness, that we are consciousness born into physical bodies to experience the physical world. I'm aware that these physical bodies into which we're born contain arguably the most advanced technology on earth: the human brain. I believe all creatures, plants, and beings-- that this earth, has consciousness. I believe that we are all part of one cloth. I believe humans have the power to propulsively co-create abundance, healing, and creativity on earth, or... we can engage in degrading cycles at our peril and the peril of our mother, this earth. I believe unconscious (sometimes conscious) stories animate our behavior-- dictating which cycle we engage in (regenerative or degrading). Therefore, it's our job to tell compelling, revealing stories to re-align humanity with our purpose and potential. To quote a favorite musician, Jain: "You got your soul! You got your brain! See what you can do with your hands." |
| Date Created | February 4, 2025 |