PLAYGROUND

Almost anything you read these days begins with a laundry list of all the simultaneous crises we are witnessing. Yes, the world is being fucked up by a tiny group of megalomaniacs. Thank you for the context. I think most of us are aware. 

If, despite the chaos and collapse - you still dream of a liberated future, have enough space-time-presence to collectively shape it, and feel ready to metabolize that knot of outrage and fury that lives inside you into the seeds of a flourishing future, we invite you to join the playground. 

It’s a community where we gather (virtually and physically) to release what is ending, remember what was always there, and dream the liberated futures we long for into being.

We convene as time and energy allow. Our approach is grounded in three rhythms of practice:

• Release | pausing to examine the histories, systems, and stories that have shaped our worldviews, asking what we want to carry forward, and what we’re ready to release.

• Remembering | seeking knowledge and wisdom across lineages, learning (in some cases remembering) to access, practice and trust different ways of knowing and being, in relationship.

• Dreamwork | imagining and playtesting the liberated futures we long for from a place of joy, pleasure, generosity, and kinship - attuning and attending to the impact of our choices on the generations, communities and ecosystems yet to come.

These are the principles guiding our rhythms of practice:  

• Imagination is a human right and an obligation.
  Colonialism has an insatiable appetite. It devoured our lands, labour and lineage. Then it came for our minds - our attention, presence, and imagination. Reclaiming imagination is a radical act in refusing colonialism and dreaming in the direction of collective liberation.

• Grief is a portal.
  Grief is love, longing for a place to go. Neglect metastasizes grief into cancer, whereas tending to what’s ending - in our bodies, relationships, communities, organizations, systems and structures - becomes a practice of letting go, in order to make way for what is emerging. 

• Knowledge exceeds what can be measured.
  There are forms of knowledge that may not fit within worldviews that have been shaped by colonialism. They go by different names - dreaming, intuition, ancestors, land, more-than-human kin networks, the erotic, indigenous wisdom. Accessing, practising and trusting these forms of knowledge does not negate what we think we know. It expands it.

• The futures we long for must be practiced in the present.
  This is space-time to imagine and playtest liberated ways of being and doing, in relationship. No panels. No passive roles. No spectators. We are active co-creators, world-builders and good future ancestors (in training).

JOIN THE COMMUNITY

Complete this form. Membership is free. Events and gatherings are paid (sliding scale).