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 otherWisdom Circles
RED MOON
Pleasure
July – August 2025
August 2025
Neodecadence/Frugal Hedonism
Neodecadence/Frugal Hedonism
As the old adage goes, “money can’t buy happiness.” Of course, money often allows folks to meet their materials needs – which is an important prerequisite for happiness and security. But beyond that, what happens when we reframe our relationship with luxury and decadence by striving for the simple pleasures in life? Maybe rather than shooting for a fancy vacation abroad, the next gadget, we would get more fulfillment and satisfaction from long slow walks, sunny naps, fresh cream, and splashing in the creek. What other creative sources of decadence have we not even considered, and what stands in our way to reclaiming them?
Carnival
Carnival
Carnival is a radical break from the norms of everyday life. As David Fleming says it is "the reminder that normal, good behavior is not a habit, but a matter of choice." A chance to get silly, creative and wild together in community breeds a sense of camaraderie, unity, and unlocks ideas and relationships that may not be possible in the normal course of life. It teaches us about ourselves and our greater physical, social, and emotional environment in a new way. How can we make space for more carnival as the summer winds down?
Neodecadence/Frugal Hedonism
Neodecadence/Frugal Hedonism
As the old adage goes, “money can’t buy happiness.” Of course, money often allows folks to meet their materials needs – which is an important prerequisite for happiness and security. But beyond that, what happens when we reframe our relationship with luxury and decadence by striving for the simple pleasures in life? Maybe rather than shooting for a fancy vacation abroad, the next gadget, we would get more fulfillment and satisfaction from long slow walks, sunny naps, fresh cream, and splashing in the creek. What other creative sources of decadence have we not even considered, and what stands in our way to reclaiming them?
Carnival
Carnival
Carnival is a radical break from the norms of everyday life. As David Fleming says it is "the reminder that normal, good behavior is not a habit, but a matter of choice." A chance to get silly, creative and wild together in community breeds a sense of camaraderie, unity, and unlocks ideas and relationships that may not be possible in the normal course of life. It teaches us about ourselves and our greater physical, social, and emotional environment in a new way. How can we make space for more carnival as the summer winds down?
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.