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As we enter into June, For The Wild is excited to share a bit of what’s going on in our lovely web of a community.

This month, For The Wild asks how we might tap into unexplored sides of ourselves, unfurling new corners of the mind, body, and soul as we find ways to engage our intellects, see the earth as muse, and take meaningful action in the direction of our dreams.

RACHEL CARGLE on a Renaissance of Our Own /332

SLOW STUDY: Bayo Akomolafe's We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks!
Last Chance–Course Ends June 9th

As we look forward to Bayo’s upcoming We Will Dance With Mountains course and subsequent Slow Study, we are winding down sales of 2022’s We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks! Access to this iteration of the course will end on June 9th, 2023. If you haven’t had the chance to purchase the course yet, now is the time! When you purchase the course you will receive evergreen digital access to the audio lectures, transcripts, and digital course book.  

About the Slow Study: 
This course is a series of lectures and practice prompts from our 2021 global course–We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks!–edited into a learning journey for you to explore from your home at your own pace.

We Will Dance With Mountains is a carnivalesque course in postactivism (a formulation of Bayo), a matter of fissures, fault lines, cracks, openings, seismic shifts, endings, and fugitive marronage. The course (often described as an expedition or a wild adventure by previous participants) is about recuperating our connections with a ‘world’ that can no longer be seen as dormant, mute and passive. It is about coming to new senses, and co-generating new practices of place-making in partnership with the more-than-human world. In short, the course is about becoming with-nesses. About what we do when hope gets in the way, when forward movement no longer leads to interesting places, when justice obstructs transformation, and when victory keeps us tethered in carceral dynamics.

Through curated sessions, shared explorations, emergent rituals, lectures, and side events, Into the Cracks! longs to push toward the unthought, the yet-to-be-tried, and the surprising, by exploring new nuances and complexities in the postactivism field summoned by Bayo Akomolafe.

Purchase the Slow Course here!

For The Wild is delighted to share avaya's new course with our community! We are so excited about the themes in this course, and hope that they resonate with you as well. Use the promo code FTW20 for 20% off General Admission tickets

Sensing Harm by Design is an upcoming six-week online course, created and facilitated by Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective and organized by advaya. It is designed to support you to activate dispositions that can expand your capacity to navigate increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA).

In response to the current modern-colonial system that requires harm by design, this course offers a container and methodology for: interrupting patterns, letting go of harmful attachments and co-dependence with the system itself, and committing to a process of cognitive, affective, and relational “decluttering”—as a continuous practice.

Through this course, you will feel better equipped to navigate complexities, uncertainties, and complicities and being more motivated to do difficult work, including the work of composting shit and the work of building relationships grounded on trust, respect, reciprocity, consent and accountability.

The course runs from 26th June to 31st July, on Mondays, 5–7pm UK. Use code FTW20 for 20% off General Admission tickets.

Find out more and register here: courses.advaya.life/sensing-harm-by-design

Our friends at Wanosh Forest Garden and Healing Grounds are offering an incredible workshop in comprehensive Earth stewardship. Taking place at Wanosh, a Community Center located in Pomo Territory of Northern California, the workshop includes daily hands-on building sessions supplemented with lectures on the theoretical background you need to design and build effective natural structures, including a thorough grounding in both the structural and thermal properties of different natural materials and the fundamentals of passive solar design.. 

This is an incredible opportunity to spend two weeks learning both important skills while immersing yourself in an off-grid forested and mountainous site amongst a community of folks committed to Earth regeneration. Wanosh is graciously offering a discount code to the For The Wild community, use the code FORTHEWILD10 for 10% off when you sign up for this course here or any of their other course offerings.

We’re grateful for spaces like Wanosh that are working to help us remember ourselves as caretakers and prioritizing the interconnected healing journey of humanity and Earth.

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