“At the timeplace when we finally look up, gaze on the horizon, which horizon will we see, which horizon will we move toward?”

— Norma Kaweloku Wong, Zen Priest, Activist & Indigenous Strategist

A monthly circle to imagine and weave our stories of the future we wish to build from these times of disruption. To look towards the horizon with Hope, Courage & Clarity

Significant parts of our society are crumbling, dying, preparing to compost. It is a frightening, unpredictable time. It can be so easy and understandable to focus our attention on the chaos, fear, pain, the shock-and-awe tactics being thrown at us in order to distract us from the fact that the Beast of patriarchal, white supremacist culture is in it’s death throes.

Something new will be born from this, a new world will be built. What form it takes depends on where we focus our attention.

“Awareness is what determines the impact of the pattern—awareness of self, others and the conditions of this moment.””

— Lineages of Change Tarot Deck, adrienne maree brown

What if we chose to focus our attention on the openings present in the chaos? On the potential of a beautiful world growing from the compost of the Beast that is dying? Everything that has been created by humanity was first birthed into someone’s imagination.

Let’s do this together

You are invited to join a cohort of dreamers and action-seekers who will join these monthly gatherings to dream, plan and take action together in service of the future we are weaving.

Supported by community, and by practices that help us regulate our nervous systems to navigate the discomfort of telling a beautiful story about the future when our present feels so lost, at this free gathering we will:

• Drop into community together through embodiment practices

• Be led through sensory visualizations designed to evoke in our imagination specific details about the world you wish for your descendant's to live in

• Weave all of these stories together through a ritual circling process

• Create space to hold the discomfort and other challenging feelings caused by the tension between our current reality and the world we long to create

• Leave with clarity and intention around your next right action in the direction of the story you have woven, and suggested practices to keep your momentum going in between sessions.

Here are the details, and read on for more context:

Structure: This round of the Loom will run for 9 months, meeting on Zoom each first Wednesday of the month. Each gathering will take us through the structure above, while remaining responsive to the needs of the group in a given gathering. In this way, you will create a multi-layered and nuanced vision of the world you wish to leave to your descendants, and identify and enact the consistent, small steps that are yours to take within your spheres of influence.

Register for the series, and attend as many as you wish. Recordings will be made available.

When: We hold the Story-Caster’s Loom every first Wednesday of the month between November and July 2027. Our first gathering will be on Wednesday, November 4th, 4:00 - 6:00 Pacific Time / 7:00 - 9:00 Eastern Time.

Where: Live on Zoom (link provided at registration)

Investment: Offered on a donation basis, a contribution that you can make joyfully and without hardship to sustain the work of imagining us into a better future.

Some More Context:

Everything that has been created by humanity was first birthed into someone’s imagination.  Every transformed future lived into was first a story dreamed and spoken by courageous people who were born for the times in which they lived. Who cast their stories into the future through their actions.

We have the opportunity—now, in this moment, and again and again as we move from here—to dream into the beautiful world that is emerging from the ashes of the Fallen Tower, even as the Beast’s terrible death throes still shake the Earth.  This is also the opportunity to allow these dreams to focus and guide our actions moving forward, just as a vision board helps to guide the actions we take in service of our personal goals.

To be clear, this is not an exercise in toxic positivity, we are not here to “good vibes” over the very real dangers and problems we face, nor distract us from the hard work ahead of us.  This is a recognition that if we ONLY focus on these challenges, on the enormity of this moment, we are far more likely to feel afraid and overwhelmed, to remain in reactivity instead of proactivity creativity, and to align our actions with despair rather than with joy and possibility.  We must be able to see, to feel, what we wish to experience in the world, so that we can be it. 

And so I’m going to invite you into a tender, perhaps frightening and vulnerable practice: To dream and story-cast together about the beautiful world that is even now taking root in our hears and in the world.