Events Schedule
Upcoming WisdomCircles
Pleasure
Discernment
Discernment
At harvest time, awash in abundance, we are faced with many choices. choices about what to keep and what to give away, about what to eat quickly, and what to store, and the best way to make use of all that we have. In this session, we can literally and metaphorically assess our harvest and decide what we offer in feast, what we pickle, what we ferment, what we sweeten into jam, what we pause in the freezer, what we salt, and what we dry to reconstitute later. In this conversational online gathering, we will swap stories about when and how we’ve made choices about what to salvage, valorize, or toss, and exchange some techniques for literal and metaphorical preserving and upcycling.
Unsettling Grief
Unsettling Grief
Unsettling Grief is an opportunity to collectively explore grief and genocide, tending to the unnameable sorrow for the unjust mass death of Palestinians at the hand of empire. Through collective witnessing of the shared grief we refuse to look away from, we gather online for this grief circle to honor the unfathomable sorrow in our hearts for the mass death of Palestinians at the hands of empire. So we may discover a different kind of opening. An overlooked crack in the foundation of modernity's violences, a way of moving through sorrow that resists apathy, passivity, or acceptance. A way for our love of life to outweigh our fear of death – strengthening our endurance for witnessing so much grief and sorrow – and build our capacity to show up to fight what presently feels overwhelming.
Generosity
Generosity
We have been taught by the hyper-individual dominant culture to hoard our excess, to save for a rainy day, as our mainstays against the intentionally insecure competitive economy. Many of us are hyper-aware of the inequality all around us, and deciding how, and how much to share can be daunting and paralyzing. As with so much un- and re-learning, it takes practice to be generous. This conversational gathering will help us to explore generosity (amid material abundance and scarcity and mindsets of the same). We hope to also support attendees in identifying how to engage in giving without feeling taken advantage of.
Vessels otherWisdom Circle
Vessels otherWisdom Circle
Different containers are appropriate for storing, carrying, and collecting different contents. As the contents change, the container might need to change as well. You can store yarn in a loosely woven basket, but you cannot carry water. You can ferment kefir in a glass container, but it requires attention and active care, so that you burp the container before it shatters. Some containers are temporary, and others hold forever. Some carry seeds, others carry ancestors. In this discussion, we will discuss the oft-overlooked importance of the vessels we carry and those that carry us.