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Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:59 pm — Post subject: The Guild of Healers in Motion
The Guild of Healers has gotten moving in recent weeks. Perhaps it was motion sideways, backways, or someotherways, (we’re not sure) but we’ve started moving, and that’s what was important. Without going into the entire story here, I’ll say simply that as soon as we gathered in our webside chatroom we realized in toto that something vital to the restoration of the guild was missing. It wasn’t information regarding the Guild’s D’ni history, although having so little of that has made defining our identity rather, er, difficult. No, that vital something was the people, the community. No surprise there, I expect.
There are some activities that do well in 2D. The activities of this particular guild need three (or more) dimensions. Why that is so we weren’t able to say at the time, beyond the strong feeling that we knew it was so. But the truth is that we knew it in toto and we were then primed to do something about it. When Tai’lahr invited us to think about Second Life, (after the collective gasps) the lasting reservation was really my own. The Guild is a D’ni Guild and is rooted in the Cavern. Never mind that we’re trying to follow in the footsteps of 1. an intolerant, prejudiced fellow so unhelpful to Ti’anna that current guild members won’t identify with him, and 2. guild members who must have been immersed in the most sensitive areas of the whole D’ni community yet left us no records of any of their medicines, materials, ingredients or methods – no, nevermind those (minor?) obstacles… we were going to make something of this tiny guild.
After some ado, we decided that a temporary space in Second Life couldn’t hurt anyone and it would give us a place to meet. So an outreach group explored that possibility; their decision was that it was viable. After two weeks of fussing, taking crash courses in moving maga-prims, terraforming, and object slicing and dicing, we set up an Outreach Retreat on the Eder D’uru Island. Many, many thanks to Tai’lahr and Dagda for hours of help.
Since the Retreat wasn’t quite ready, we hosted the June 13 Silk Road Event on the Eder D’uru Mall Roof. D’niJ Ktahdn, creator of the event, played beautiful and fitting music while taking us on a journey from east to west along the ancient silk road on the surface. The event was very nice and quite well attended. A few joined us in our public community 2D chatroom, which will be open for all events such as this one. Importantly, many folks left the event feeling better. Huzzah! In conjunction with the physical Retreat, we also set up a SL Outreach Retreat group through which we can share information and announcements. The notices for that group reflect those on our forum and here on MOUL.
Since the outreach team set up the retreat the ideas have begun to flow. We are beginning to talk about what the guild is, what being in the guild means, and the types of activities we can do to involve the community. What we do seems to help define who we are, so we are planning more large-scale events and small-scale Retreat meditations. Kneb and Tai’lahr mentioned a “Healing Uru” community and worlds-wide type of activity during Mysterium -- discussions about that have begun on the Guild of Healers’ Forum.
It has been a very busy time, but loads of fun. The best thing about it is that guild members have realized these types of events will easily migrate back into the Cavern once it is open again. I myself have designed much of the retreat, which has taught me what we need (and don’t need) when it is time to settle in our own Age. So we are taking advantage of the Retreat to build on our ideas, establish our identity, and keep searching for historical information regarding the Guild. Our little guild membership is now growing – a good sign that we might be doing something helpful.
We’ll post here as there are updates and news. Feel free to join us on our forums or in the Retreat. You are most welcome!
There are some activities that do well in 2D. The activities of this particular guild need three (or more) dimensions. Why that is so we weren’t able to say at the time, beyond the strong feeling that we knew it was so. But the truth is that we knew it in toto and we were then primed to do something about it. When Tai’lahr invited us to think about Second Life, (after the collective gasps) the lasting reservation was really my own. The Guild is a D’ni Guild and is rooted in the Cavern. Never mind that we’re trying to follow in the footsteps of 1. an intolerant, prejudiced fellow so unhelpful to Ti’anna that current guild members won’t identify with him, and 2. guild members who must have been immersed in the most sensitive areas of the whole D’ni community yet left us no records of any of their medicines, materials, ingredients or methods – no, nevermind those (minor?) obstacles… we were going to make something of this tiny guild.
After some ado, we decided that a temporary space in Second Life couldn’t hurt anyone and it would give us a place to meet. So an outreach group explored that possibility; their decision was that it was viable. After two weeks of fussing, taking crash courses in moving maga-prims, terraforming, and object slicing and dicing, we set up an Outreach Retreat on the Eder D’uru Island. Many, many thanks to Tai’lahr and Dagda for hours of help.
Since the Retreat wasn’t quite ready, we hosted the June 13 Silk Road Event on the Eder D’uru Mall Roof. D’niJ Ktahdn, creator of the event, played beautiful and fitting music while taking us on a journey from east to west along the ancient silk road on the surface. The event was very nice and quite well attended. A few joined us in our public community 2D chatroom, which will be open for all events such as this one. Importantly, many folks left the event feeling better. Huzzah! In conjunction with the physical Retreat, we also set up a SL Outreach Retreat group through which we can share information and announcements. The notices for that group reflect those on our forum and here on MOUL.
Since the outreach team set up the retreat the ideas have begun to flow. We are beginning to talk about what the guild is, what being in the guild means, and the types of activities we can do to involve the community. What we do seems to help define who we are, so we are planning more large-scale events and small-scale Retreat meditations. Kneb and Tai’lahr mentioned a “Healing Uru” community and worlds-wide type of activity during Mysterium -- discussions about that have begun on the Guild of Healers’ Forum.
It has been a very busy time, but loads of fun. The best thing about it is that guild members have realized these types of events will easily migrate back into the Cavern once it is open again. I myself have designed much of the retreat, which has taught me what we need (and don’t need) when it is time to settle in our own Age. So we are taking advantage of the Retreat to build on our ideas, establish our identity, and keep searching for historical information regarding the Guild. Our little guild membership is now growing – a good sign that we might be doing something helpful.
We’ll post here as there are updates and news. Feel free to join us on our forums or in the Retreat. You are most welcome!
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