otherWisdom Circles
Regular open gatherings where we learn, reckon, and reweave together at the edge of change. otherWisdom Circles are the pulse of and portal to otherWise.
We meet online and in place to share questions, stories, and seasonal rhythms. Here, we welcome complexity, hold space for grief and grounded hope, and practice moving with generative uncertainty. Not to save the world, but to savor and stay true to it—and to each other.
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Upcoming Circles
Upcoming otherWisdom Circles
Collage concept of “Mirroring the Unseen”, a forthcoming art project by Niels Devisscher for otherWise
Long Night Moon Theme
Mirrors
November – December 2025
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.
Upcoming Events
otherWisdom Circles
Archetypal Reflections
December 10, 2025
1:00 pm
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2:30 pm
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We each have multiple sides to our existence — different ways we’ve reflected throughout our lives, and the fractals of our existence in this current moment. When we launched otherWise, we came up with 16 archetypes of people who might find value in our community, or 16 different attempts to articulate some of the many forms people find they’ve come to inhabit in modernity. These archetypes are like mirrors held at different angles, showing different parts of us from different perspectives, how we show up in different contexts. We all contain multiple archetypes, some described here, and maybe others we’ve yet to put to words. In this session, we’ll go through the archetypes that we feel make up the fractal accumulation of our existence. Read more
otherWisdom Circles
ReVillaging
December 30, 2025
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Revillaging is about putting the theory of how to be-long into practice, in our places. We take what we learn from traveling (literal travel, and metaphorical travel through literature and discussions), and learn how to adapt these lessons to our unique circumstances in place. A village is how we humans and non-humans live together. The scope and range of a group of people is determined by availability of energetic input. In revillaging, we consider the essential needs of our communities and lost skills needed to meet them with a grounded, realistic view of our entanglement with the Earth and in the midst of a wounded planet, and fractured culture. Read more
otherWisdom Circles are regular, lightly structured spaces where we gather to reckon, to reweave, and to remember what it means to be learners together at the end of an era.
In a time when many conversations collapse into performance or polarization, our Circles offer something rarer: patient, porous spaces where complexity can breathe, where relationships matter more than rightness, and where curiosity leads the way.
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In these spaces, we learn from each other across different stages of transition—experiencing firsthand the fits, starts, failures, bends and breakthroughs of moving beyond dominant systems.
otherWisdom Circles give you a chance to attune to the cycles of the moon. In an effort to inhabit other-than colonized time, we select themes to loosely align with the named Moon (in the Northern Hemisphere). Online otherWisdom circles are open to newcomers.
We meet three times each lunar cycle—during the waxing, fullness, and waning of the moon—to move with seasonal and personal rhythms.
In addition to our online gatherings, we host in-person Circles in places where clusters of participants are experimenting with land-based, communally rooted ways of living—including the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, Western North Carolina, and County Galway, Ireland.