a radical experiment in healing, caretaking, relating, and losing our way ... and "embracing ourselves as both cute and pathetic" ... inspired by the work of Vanessa Andreotti & Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures

for healers, therapists, organizers, community builders, care workers, and anyone who wants to practice navigating collapse with accountability and compassion

What is “Praxis”? The process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice; the practical application of theory, turning ideas into action

from Co-Sensing with Radical Tenderness by Dani d’Emilia, Vanessa Andreotti & GTDF Collective

Co-sense with RADICAL TENDERNESS and …
Be receptive to the teachings of your shadows.
Mourn your illusions, compost your shit, ferment yourself.
Learn from repeated mistakes. Make only new ones in the future.
Discover a whole bus of different creatures inside yourself.
Look into the mirror and release the fear of disappointability, rejection and abandonment.
Face your complicity in violence and disinvest from arrogance, superiority, and status.
Let go of the fear of ‘being less’, the pressure for ‘being more’ and the need for validation.
Deprivatize failures, depersonalize lack. We all fuck up, we all cry.
Deactivate your expectations for belonging and focus on unlearning the logic of separability.
Embrace yourself as both cute and pathetic, be courageously vulnerable.

Curious?

If you want to join the experiment, or learn more before committing, fill out this short form and I’ll be in touch to schedule a conversation.

*This will be the first iteration of a Hospicing Modernity praxis group and much of what we do will emerge as we gather. An orientation of curiosity, generosity, flexibility, and the courage to try new things is essential.

*We will meet in-person, monthly or bimonthly, for 2-3 hours in Durham or Hillsborough, NC. Meeting times will be determined by participants’ availability.

*You do NOT need to have read Vanessa’s books to join.

*You DO need to be awake to the possibility of near-term societal collapse. By joining this group, you agree not to take any fixed position about what the future holds. You agree to be open to imagining futures that include both disaster and healing.