Gestures Toward a Living Culture
12 week online course
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This 12-week online course introduces foundational material at the heart of a soul curriculum, meant to re-enchant our lives, nurture our imagination, honor our longings, welcome our heartbreak, inspire our authentic impulses, remind us of the mythical, and hopefully give us the courage to become more naturally ourselves together and reclaim a sense of meaning and mystery. Each week we will explore a different and related theme.
Content
Collective Wound & Repair of the World
Ancestral Inheritance
Dreams, Imagination & Creativity
Beauty & Enchantment
Ritual, Community & the Sacred
The Well of Grief
Obstacles & Separation – Shame & Trauma
Outcasts, Protectors & Predator
Wild Kin & Animate World
Intimacy, Love & the Soul friend
The Terrain of Initiation
Prayer as Embodiment
Intention — Although this course is an introduction to the material, it is also an experiential training of sorts. At its most lofty, to help ripen us into adults and true elders that know who we are, what we serve, and to whom and what we belong. It is meant to deepen our soulfulness, presence, wisdom, compassion, and eccentricity as well as our sense of belonging in community. It is my hope that this seed will grow and nurture a robust community of practice, study and communion that meets with regularity to engage the curriculum. To offer virtual opportunities for deeper dives into the material. To invite guest teachers and collaborators from various related and interconnected fields. To host in person, on land, retreats and longer form trainings. We practice the communal art of villaging as an antidote to the dis-ease, fragmentation and individualism of the modern world.
Form & flow — Attunement & embodiment practice, dyad check in, 45 minutes of interactive teaching, 30 minutes of small group work (explicit instructions and guidelines will be given, including writing prompts) and a 20-minute question and answer section to go over ideas, questions, concerns as a larger community.
Participation
· Recordings of each session (presentation and q/a only) will be available.
· You may purchase the recording of the classes without attending - which will provide exposure to the content of the work and my teaching style without the villaging community component of the course.
· You can sign up for the course and watch the recordings when it works for you.
“ “Belonging is where people co-create the future together.” ”