| School of the Small and Imperfect. A second school begins May 21st! We are in an unprecedented position. We have access to information, images, activities and stories from across the entire planet in real time. In our desire to help, fix, accompany, fight, and exact justice, we march, boycott, lobby, repost the perspectives that need amplifying, and try to convince people to care about what we care about. Our attention is on the planetary perspective. The thing is, we aren’t meant to see constant images of events we cannot directly affect, nor witness terrors unfolding in far away places. We aren’t meant to see this much; we aren’t built to endure it. In dedicating ourselves to the planetary perspective and the attempt to be on the right side of every complexity, we lose our agency. We lose the opportunity to connect and affect practical change right where we are. Anxiety and overwhelm set in. Despair and depression often ensue. Loneliness and stuckness are rampant. We don’t make things anymore. We feel lost. We forget what it is to be present, wild, and imperfect. We have convinced ourselves that how far we can reach is more important than what we can hold.The suggestion is not to stop taking global action. Instead, the question becomes: what am I missing here in order to locate attention there? We need spaces where we can be humans, rather than representatives of an ideology or a demographic, with other humans who want that, too. We need to steer ourselves back to where we are, what we have, and what we can change, even if it’s not sexy, important or externally validating. Click for more info We are so pleased to be able to bring you a second weekly School of the Small for folks who can’t make it to our current time slot. Wednesdays 10:30pm-12am India 6pm-7:30pm Central European 5pm-6:30pm UK12pm-1:30pm Eastern9am-10:30am Pacific |
 The School of the Small and Imperfect meets weekly to form an ecology of connection, attending to what is here and now and creating with whatever presents itself. Surprise. Discovery. Challenge. Invitation. We bring our attention to what is emergent. In a world that’s loud and demands much of us, we turn again and again to the small and imperfect. Read more about the school |
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