Our capacity to respond to the intersectional crises of our time depends not only on our willingness to act, but on our capacity to listen. We are accustomed to thinking of agency as something we exercise as individuals: deciding what matters, determining what needs to be done, and taking action. Another form of agency becomes possible when we understand ourselves as participants in a larger web of life and allow our actions to emerge through relationship with the living Earth.
What might it mean to be guided by a wisdom greater than our own, without assuming that we already know what that wisdom is saying? In our time together we’ll explore listening as a practice of collective discernment — listening to one another, to the places we inhabit, and to the living world of which we are a part.
