Within our communities, and, indeed, our inner lives, many of us are sensing a shift. There is an unraveling of what once felt steady happening. And it is accompanied by a awareness that something new is trying to take form. In these in-between spaces, care and creativity become ways we stay oriented, connected and capable of responding to change – whether gradual or disruptive, relieving or unwelcome. They are survival literacies that help us make meaning in transition and imagine new possibilities even as the familiar rearranges itself. Beyond that, they help us tend to that is tender and what needs to be held with patience and attention.
In this session, we will explore how edges, whether ecological, emotional, cultural or systemic, serve as fertile sites of imagination and change. Rather than seeing the edge merely as a site of rupture or precarity, we'll consider it as a space where new questions, relationships and ways of knowing become possible. Through shared reflection and dialogue, and collective meaning-making, we will explore how care shapes our creative processes and how creativity expands our capacity to care.
Guiding questions include:
1. How does beginning with care shift the way you understand creativity?
2. What becomes possible when we stop rushing toward answers and instead sit with the questions that resist immediate resolution?
3. What edge are you currently living with or navigating? What might they be revealing?
4. How does practicing care shape the way you respond to uncertainty or transition?
Entry to this community gathering if free for all and offered in the spirit of the gift.