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.
Engage
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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Terroir with Trevor Warmedahl
March 30, 2026
6:30 pm
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8:00 pm
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How to Fall In Love with the Future with Rob Hopkins
May 13, 2026
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
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Read
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
Sap Moon Theme
Arrangements and Asymmetries Cycle
February – March 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.
Gifts All Around Series
Gifts All Around is a three-part series exploring economies of generosity, even and especially in tough times. Through seed sharing, collage art, and participatory practice, we’ll gather to reimagine economic life beyond transactional norms — and notice the gifts already moving among and within our communities.
Moves Toward Relationship
May 12, 2026
5:30 pm
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7:30 pm
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Together, participants will learn to spot transactional patterns in everyday interactions, reflect on how those patterns show up in food systems and community life, and experiment with alternative relational practices — gestures that invite curiosity, reciprocity, and wider, wilder ways of being together. Expect reflective exercises, facilitated dialogue, and hands-on creative exploration in the welcoming, art-centered space of Hard-Pressed.
Piecing Together Economic Life
April 14, 2026
5:30 pm
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7:30 pm
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Through fresh framing, hands-on collage, guided reflection, and small group conversation, participants will articulate the challenging and creative realities of economic life circa 2026, while imagining oikonmia and visualizing what an economy rooted in care and wellbeing might look like if it were inherent to living in Vermont.
The Gift of Seed
March 17, 2026
5:00 pm
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8:00 pm
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Come ready to reflect on your own gifts, connect with neighbors and strangers alike, and leave with seeds — and inspiration — to help cultivate more abundant futures for your family, community, and all generations yet to come.
