otherWise is a cosmolocal learning community.
We offer small, place-rooted gatherings and deep, slow virtual inquiry. Together, we practice shared rituals and commons-sense.
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otherWise offers regular otherWisdom Circles: community conversations to reckon, reconsider, and reveal wisdom. We also curate learning experiences on a wide range of topics, from gardening and motherhood to grief work and care and creativity at the margins.
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EverGreen Books
otherWise has partnered up with Chelsea Green Publishing to bring you into online conversation with authors of new books with timely themes and evergreen relevance.
Accidental Seed Heroes with Adam Alexander
March 4, 2026
5:30 pm
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7:00 pm
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Finding Lights in a Dark Age with Chris Smaje
January 13, 2026
5:30 pm
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7:00 pm
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Welcome to the OtherWays, original essays and stories from from the edges of endings and the reaches of return, written and curated by the otherWise team.
Mirror Self
Provisioning Plenty, Discerning Enough
What is Cosmolocalism?
Featured Series
Rehearsing Our Return to an Earth-Bound World of Many Worlds
Rehearsing Our Return to an Earth-Bound World of Many Worlds is a four-part exploration of how we might practice village-dreaming, village-being, and village-doing in an unraveling world. Each part invites us into a different layer of the work: from reweaving community as so much of the familiar unravels, to remembering how land shapes us; from recovering vital skills and rhythms, to loosening our grasp on the modern story and turning toward the non-dual and plural. These arcing pieces arrange into a spiral, encouraging us to return differently, again and again.
I reVillaging: the Dreamwork and Doing of Unintentional Community
II reGrounding: Land as Site, Source, and Shaper
III reSkilling: Providential Pursuits Shape the Ethics & Energetics of Village Life
IV reTurning: Rearranged & Restoried
Upcoming otherWisdom Circles
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reVillaging
December 2025 – January 2026
otherWisdom Circles are regular open gatherings where we learn, reckon, and reweave together at the edge of change. They are the pulse of and portal to otherWise.