Black Spirituals and Protest Songs

In these gatherings, we will incorporate ritual, contemplations, discussion, art, writing and other ways of representing what we feel and know. This will provide an opportunity for communal witnessing of our felt responses to the environmental suffering that is taking place all over the world, and especially in the lives of marginalized populations.

The Zen master Dogan said that awakening is intimacy with all things. We will explore how our practice can lead to being a co-participant in intimate relationship with the very alive natural world in which we are embedded. Who knows, we might even become animists!

In this 7-week Ubuntu-based decolonial journey, we explore the impact of colonisation on our bodies, minds, family systems, communities, and worldview through an intersectional lens of oppression. In a world entangled in poly-crises, we will examine the assumptions, investments, and desires that sustain these challenges.