Living One Courses
This year we are offering companions courses for each of the three series in our 2025 series, Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment. Issy Clarke provides an overview of the upcoming topics and speakers for each series. A week prior to each Living One webinar, you will receive a set of relevant readings, links, and information pertaining to the upcoming speaker; after each session, you will receive an experiential exercise and also have a direct opportunity to ask the speaker any questions. Issy will hold two discussion sessions; one midway through the series and another at the end. Each discussion session will run for about an hour, but may go a bit longer if our discussion runs over. If you can’t make it to one or more sessions, we encourage you to enroll anyways as all discussions will be recorded and available for later viewing.
Series One Course
This first series, Attending to the More-Than-Human World, explores the ethics of attention –why it matters when we unhook our minds and attention from human privilege and ground in the perspectives of Animals, Plants, Rivers, Seas, Forests. Six incisive thinkers discuss ways to pay deep and loving attention to Animals and Plants. Through various approaches – empathy, shared embodiment, animism and holism – they offer thoughtful and practical guidance on how the well-being and self-determination of our fellow earth-beings can be supported and revitalized.
Series Two Course
Much of the “unseen,” revealed by Buddhism, animism, and other wisdom traditions, is excised from mainstream reality and relegated to the uneasy realms of mythology – even eccentricity. Encounters with the Unseen delves into the critical ethical and ontological dimensions emerging from nonduality and our existence in a world of persons, only some of whom are human. Journey with us into unseen territories and discover how this deeper understanding can expand and restore wholeness and connection with the vitality of our living cosmos!
Series Three Course
This third series of conversations, A Re-enchanted World, continues exploration into “unseen” worlds. The mercantile, capitalist, realist-Cartesian paradigm has supported scientific, technological, and industrial advances, but stripped our psyches and imaginations – even our very perceptions and understanding – of the richly entangled, convivially connected nature of life on our living planet. You are invited to join conversations with people who have shed their cultural blinkers and experience the wonder of existence.
