Join Yaupon Place’s first-ever BOOK CLUB
Have you been longing for community space that moves beyond just the what’s and why’s of “resistance,” but actually helps you explore how to live a life of peace and justice: ethically, soulfully, integrated, embodied? Well, this is your time. This is that group. And this is definitely that book. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day, by Kaitlin B. Curtice.
Yaupon Place is excited to partner with Union Presbyterian Seminary’s “Leadership Institute” to host this transformative book club for all interested.
Listen to the podcast interview from Chris Burton (Leadership Institute director) of Emily Nyce (Yaupon Place founder/director, and book club facilitator) as she speaks to the intersection of this book with Yaupon Place’s vision for community at the park.
This book club will meet for four weeks, every Wednesday evening, 6-8pm
October 11 - online
October 18 - online
October 25 - online
November 1 - at Yaupon Place
(a culminating online gathering for those participating from out-of-town can potentially be scheduled for another night)
contact Emily Nyce or Chris Burton if cost is at all a prohibiting factor, and we will make sure you can still join!
“In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.
Curtice shows that we can learn to practice embodied ways of belonging and connection to ourselves and one another through everyday practices, such as getting more in touch with our bodies, resting, and remembering our ancestors. She explores four "realms of resistance"--the personal, the communal, the ancestral, and the integral--and shows how these realms overlap and why all are needed for our liberation. Readers will be empowered to seek wholeness in whatever spheres of influence they inhabit.”