Events Schedule

Right before much of the world enters the dominant-cultural hegemony Christian holiday of empire-sanctioned celebration, worship, and consumption, we’ll explore the original roots of what this holiday and many others sought to celebrate: the sacred. This is not a session centered on any one organized religion or holiday. It will be a conversation about what we find sacred in the world, and how we relate to what in our lives – no matter what religion, spirituality, or ...

In a recent interview on the Upstream podcast, author and philosopher Roman Krznaric shared insight into how the dominant culture's expansive colonization extends not only geographically, but temporally. "The tyranny of the now," or the short-term thinking so ubiquitously incentivized and enforced by financial markets, 24/7 media, digital consumption, political campaign cycles, workplaces, and even unassuming technologies like the clock, leads us to obsess over the immedi...

This shorter cycle’s will focus on slower, quieter themes as we begin the new calendar year that will surely be full of more disruptions and uncertainty. As winter begins to settle in deeper for us in the northern hemisphere, we’ll sit with the elements that accompany this time of year (but are relevant, of course, anywhere on Earth at any given time, no matter your hemisphere of habitation): presence, darkness, and patience.

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Darkness — non-metaphorical, the lack of light in the physical world — is an increasingly rare phenomenon, although it certainly feels like we have an abundnace of darnkess in these northern hemisphere winters. Darkness — metaphorical, all the difficult things in the world – is, unfortunately, not an increasingly rare phenomenon. For this call, we’ll focus mostly on the former, but just as it’s crucial to acknowledge the necessity of darkness for the critters ...

"Good things come to those who wait." “Patience is a virtue." Perhaps, but at the very least we all have experienced the necessary practice of patience in our own lives. On our final call of this shortened cycle, we'll convene around the practice and lessons of patience, which can feel especially challenging when we feel so much urgency.

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