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.Â
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 otherWisdom Circles
Frost Moon Theme
Supernatural
October – November 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.
November 2025
Ghosts
Phantoms, spirits, apparitions, poltergeists, wisps of white vapor, floating sheets with eye holes cut out. Spooky as they may be in popular fiction, there’s certainly more to ghosts than blockbuster films. Whether interpreted metaphorically, felt bodily, or dismissed as mythical while hurrying past a creepy graveyard, ghosts are well understood as ancestors, legacies, and former or lingering presences on the land. They can be meaningful ways of relating to and understanding the past. Who are our ancestors’ ghosts? Who are the ghosts who inhabit the land on which we live?
Witches
The vilification of witches and witchcraft was a crucial, and very intentional, part of the process of capitalist enclosure. It is one of many examples of genocide against women, pronatalism, demonization of traditional knowledges, disruption of non-male solidarities, and the beginnings of the invisibilization of women's labor. Despite these attacks, people persecuted by patriarchy and sacrificed to capital practiced resistance and solidarity that still persist strongly today. So too do the spaces for holding unconventional and traditional wisdoms of those villified as witches. In this discussion, we will explore what it means to be a witch, why they have been made so feared, and how we might reconnect with witchcraft. Acclaimed feminist historian and author Max Dashu will join us to lead this discussion.
Ghosts
Phantoms, spirits, apparitions, poltergeists, wisps of white vapor, floating sheets with eye holes cut out. Spooky as they may be in popular fiction, there’s certainly more to ghosts than blockbuster films. Whether interpreted metaphorically, felt bodily, or dismissed as mythical while hurrying past a creepy graveyard, ghosts are well understood as ancestors, legacies, and former or lingering presences on the land. They can be meaningful ways of relating to and understanding the past. Who are our ancestors’ ghosts? Who are the ghosts who inhabit the land on which we live?
Witches
The vilification of witches and witchcraft was a crucial, and very intentional, part of the process of capitalist enclosure. It is one of many examples of genocide against women, pronatalism, demonization of traditional knowledges, disruption of non-male solidarities, and the beginnings of the invisibilization of women's labor. Despite these attacks, people persecuted by patriarchy and sacrificed to capital practiced resistance and solidarity that still persist strongly today. So too do the spaces for holding unconventional and traditional wisdoms of those villified as witches. In this discussion, we will explore what it means to be a witch, why they have been made so feared, and how we might reconnect with witchcraft. Acclaimed feminist historian and author Max Dashu will join us to lead this discussion.
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.
About
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.