Unlearning Modernity. Attuning to the Interbeing 

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This series is a virtual year-long learning journey designed to accompany and deepen the experience of our four in-person Interbeing Learning Journeys next year. Each monthly session aligns with the themes explored in each journey, offering a space for collective reflection, learning, and imagination across distances.

Together, we will dive into topics such as regenerative practices, ancestral wisdom, the generative power of ritual and sound, and the intricate connections between life, death, and celebration. Guided by voices from diverse territories and cosmovisions, this series weaves a rich tapestry of insights to support activists, changemakers, and seekers on their paths of unlearning and reimagining.

Let these sessions be a bridge between worlds, anchoring us in shared purpose as we explore new ways of being and belonging.

Participation is open to all those interested and donations are invited.

Next sESSION:

Remembering Earth’s Wisdom: Coca, a teacher plant, reencounters Chavín, an ancestral vision

May 22, 4pm UTC
This session is an invitation to journey into the heart of Andean cosmovision, where the coca plant serves as a bridge between spiritual, ecological and ancestral knowledge. We will explore how this sacred teacher plant connects communities to the timeless wisdom of the Chavín culture and its deep relationship with the natural world. Join us to reconnect with the profound teachings that continue to guide and inspire the Andean worldview. Sign Up

Facilitator

Carlo Brescia
Born in Lima and residing in Huaraz for 24 years, Carlo Brescia is a researcher, filmmaker, and founding member of the non-profit cultural association Vasos Comunicantes, dedicated to promoting intercultural and educational projects rooted in Andean cosmovision, sustainability, and respect for ancestral wisdom. He has conducted extensive research on the Chavín de Huántar ceremonial center and has organized several international events focused on Andean culture, sustainability, and paradigm shifts. In addition to his publications and audiovisual projects, he co-leads the WikiAcción Peru project to diversify knowledge on ecology, gender, and culture within Wikimedia platforms.

Past Sessions:

Portals to Enlivened Listening

April 23rd, 4pm GMT
“Anything that engages the ways that we experience life itself, can act as a portal in your life.”~Akilah Richards This presentation will invite participants to expand their frames of reference to engage with music listening in new ways. As a portal; beyond evaluating, beyond consuming, and as contemplative traditions suggest - “beyond the tyranny of like and dislike.” Drawing on what I have learned as a musician and dj, I will offer a few tools and toys for a lifelong learning exploration of radical listening. The primary themes we’ll explore are practices encouraging listening in novel ways. As Sufi teacher W.A. Mathieu says, “The truth is, most of us have to learn specifically the single, pure act of listening to music.” This is even more prominent as we grapple with constant distractions in modern culture. In our brief time together we’ll explore practices, suggest resources and encourage the liberating power offered by deepening our listening. Read the Highlights

Facilitator

Cliff Berrien

Cliff Berrien is drummer-percussionist, dj and music educator with over 45 years of experience focused on the rhythms and music of the African Diaspora and many other global music traditions. He has recently been exploring cultural expressions of collective joy as transformative ways to develop creativity, cultural dexterity and to cultivate somatic awareness through music, movement, art and the use of creative and self-reflexive practices including Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed. He’s here to joyfully share his passion for what might beneficially contribute to healing and liberation for self, others and the planet.

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Whispers of the Dunes: Unraveled by Silence

March 20th, 5pm GMT

This is an invitation to embark on a storytelling journey into the heart of the desert - not as a physical place, but as a state of being, an ethereal space pregnant with ontological and epistemological possibilities. Together we will explore the symbolism of the desert across cultures and faith traditions, letting these questions guide us through our pilgrimage back to the source:

  • What happens when we allow ourselves to be unmade by silence?
  • How can the wisdom of the desert guide us on our journey of unlearning modernity?
  • What practices can help us cultivate and nurture our inner desert?
Read the highlights

Facilitator

Hajar Tazi
Storyteller and ecosystem weaver in the field of regenerative development and education from Morocco. Drawing inspiration from the way natural ecosystems flourish, Hajar cross-pollinates amongst regenerative projects and organizations and spreads the mycelium of radical collaboration in service to the full round of Life. Inspired by indigenous cosmovisions and spiritual ecology, Hajar is on a journey of reclaiming and uncovering ancient and new ways of belonging to the Earth. She nurtures the soil of reverence and deep relationality with self, others, and nature to support the blossoming of life-sustaining ways of being, thinking, and relating, paving the way for the Symbiocene.