Foundation CourseA transdisciplinary journey with leading hearts and minds of our time
Embark on a spiritual homecoming, reconnecting with your cultural roots, inner wisdom, and the deep sense of belonging to the earth and all beings.
taught by Eve Annecke
Module 1Relating & Relationships
How we come to relate to ourselves, others and the more-than-human creates the context from where our actions, beliefs and attitudes arise. In the first module, we dive into relating. We explore practices, ways of being and ways of knowing that allow us to come into deeper relationship with Life. With Pat...
Chapter 1
Opening Session
Chapter 2
Deep Dive With Merlin Sheldrake, Riane Eisler & Pat McCabe
Chapter 3
Q&A With Merlin Sheldrake, Riane Eisler & Pat McCabe
Chapter 4
Workshop: Relating with Eve Annecke, Ruby Reed and Christabel Reed
Chapter 5
Practice: Relating, Part One With Christabel Reed
Chapter 6
Practice: Relating, Part Two With Christabel Reed
Module 2Food & Farming
A holistic approach to personal, social and ecological wellbeing must explore not only the kind of food we eat but, more importantly, the way in which our food is grown and produced. Industrial agriculture is destroying the health of people and the planet. What are the solutions? With Dr Vandana Shiva (ph...
Chapter 1
Opening Song: Sinalo Dlanga
Chapter 2
Deep Dive With Vandana Shiva, Brooke Bridges, Jyoti Fernandes, Ian Solomon-Kawall, Amber Tamm & Josina Calliste, Hosted by Ruby Reed
Chapter 3
Q&A With Vandana Shiva, Brooke Bridges, Jyoti Fernandes, Ian Solomon-Kawall, Amber Tamm & Josina Calliste
Chapter 4
Inclusive Food Flows in Cape Town With Shawn Alimohammadi
Chapter 5
Q&A With Shawn Alimohammadi
Chapter 6
Workshop: Food, Farming & Growing Community With Dee Woods & Kos Gangsters
Chapter 7
Q&A With Dee Woods & Kos Gangsters
Chapter 8
Practice: Relaxation With Christabel Reed
Module 3New Economies
Many of us think about economics as men in suits on Wall Street or Politicians arguing about money, but the economy is inextricable from social and environmental justice and interconnects us all. It is present in almost every element of our lives and dominates global culture and society. In this module, we...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With Jason Hickel, Alnoor Ladha, Helena Norberg-Hodge & Camila Moreno
Chapter 2
Q&A With Jason Hickel, Alnoor Ladha, Helena Norberg-Hodge & Camila Moreno
Chapter 3
Workshop: New Economies With Shaun Chamberlin
Chapter 4
Q&A With Shaun Chamberlin
Chapter 5
Informal Economies With Shirley Mambadzo
Chapter 6
Q&A With Shirley Mambadzo
Chapter 7
Practice: Morning Movement With Christabel Reed
Module 4Depression, Addiction & The Shadow
For many of us, addictive behaviours and depression play a critical role in the way we, or our loved ones, experience life. In Module Four, we will explore the shadow, the trickster, depression and addiction. How can we be gentle with and in touch with the less-comfortable aspects of our being? How can we ...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With Jay Griffiths, Lyla June & Bayo Akomolafe
Chapter 2
Q&A With Jay Griffiths, Lyla June & Bayo Akomolafe
Chapter 3
Workshop: Addiction With Colin Dunsmuir
Chapter 4
Q&A With Colin Dunsmuir
Chapter 5
Practice: Sound, Part One With Christabel Reed
Chapter 6
Practice: Sound, Part Two With Christabel Reed
Module 5Death & Grief
How do we collectively and individually hold death? What effect does the modern day's "War on Death" have on our personal and collective psyche and our ability to feel truly alive? How does this denial affect the way we treat the natural living world? In this module, we explore the place of death and how w...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With Charles Eisenstein, Stephen Jenkinson & Kaira Jewel Lingo, Hosted by Ruby Reed and Eve Annecke
Chapter 2
Grief-Tending: Embracing Grief as Teacher, Fertile Growth and Healing With Sara Zaltash
Chapter 3
Death Meditation With Amie Roberts
Chapter 4
Workshop: Death & Grief With Colin Campbell & Selena King
Chapter 5
Q&A With Colin Campbell & Selena King
Chapter 6
Practice: Morning Movement to Stretch & Strengthen With Christabel Reed
Module 6Embodiment, Movement & Trauma
Somatics is the study of the soma, a Greek word that means "the living organism in its wholeness". It is a methodology for transformation that helps us understand that change doesn't come simply from thinking differently. The process involves shifting what we understand, what we can feel, and what we pract...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With Christine Caldwell, Rae Johnson and Sister Euphrasia Nyaki, Hosted by Christabel Reed
Chapter 2
Q&A With Christine Caldwell, Rae Johnson and Sister Euphrasia Nyaki
Chapter 3
Workshop: Embodiment, Movement & Trauma With Ra Vuyi Qubeka
Chapter 4
Practice: Embodiment With Christabel Reed
Module 7Consciousness, Spirituality & Meditation
If we haven't cultivated mindfulness in our attention, how do we ever expect to break out of the cycle of crises response? Meditative practices are instrumental to catalysing harmonious change on both a personal and collective level. Through mindfulness and meditation we can deepen our ecological connectio...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With Rupert Sheldrake, Matthew Fox & Satish Kumar. Hosted by Ruby Reed
Chapter 2
Workshop: Nature Connection With Dr Sam Gandy
Chapter 3
Nature Connection Practices With Dr Sam Gandy
Chapter 4
Practice: Meditation With Christabel Reed
Module 8Myth, Story & Imagination
In a world of divisions and polarisation, shared stories allow us to come together, shift narrative, hack culture and truly drive change. In Module Eight, we will be joined by mythologists and storytellers to delve into the mythic imagination. With Sharon Blackie (an award-winning author, psychologist, an...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With Colin Campbell & Carolyn Hillyer, Hosted by Eve Annecke
Chapter 2
Workshop: The Blood Feathered Earth: Witchcraft, Runes and the Well of Memory With Andreas Kornevall
Chapter 3
Q&A With Andreas Kornevall
Chapter 4
Practice: Breath Development With Christabel Reed
Module 9Reimagining Activisms
How can we re-imagine "activisms" and transform our methods and attitudes to ensure both inner and outer transformation? How can we expand our understanding of who we are and where we are, whilst building cross-movement solidarity and co-creating transformative societal change? How can we unite, within and...
Chapter 1
Deep Dive With brontë velez, Alastair McIntosh & Adrian Kawaley-Lathan, Hosted by Christabel Reed
Chapter 2
Q&A With brontë velez, Alastair McIntosh & Adrian Kawaley-Lathan
Chapter 3
Practice: Cultivating Discipline for Greater Freedom With Christabel Reed
About the course
Ultimately, we will be going on a journey of falling deeper in love with our embodied existence and exploring how we support the transition towards a just and regenerative future.
In a world where the old maps just don’t work anymore, we are on the hunt for an adventure in creating new ones. Different coordinates. Recharting our course to find our way home.
It’s nonlinear. And the questions that intrigue us are: What is home? Who on earth am I? What do I do? Alternative economies, other ways of knowing and being, relating, community, being in our bodies, myths and stories, death, addictions, poetry, prayer and practice.
A different coordinate each month navigated by: an evening gathering with amazing guests; a practical workshop; individual journeying through practice, dreamwork, one-on-one meetings with us.
If you’re the kind of person who is a little on the edge, or already stuck in, who may or may not consider yourself ‘spiritual’, and still deeply curious, who yearns to make a difference in the world, and for whom life matters, then come along and join the fray.
A Journey Home: it’s entering new thresholds, finding portals of possibility and creating different stories - dynamic, gritty and cool.
- 9 Modules
- 49 Sessions
- 42 Speakers
- Curated readings, resources and embodied practices
- Community discussion area
- Exploring what it means to be human in the world today.
- Building a sense of belonging and developing purpose.
- Building connection, resilience and inner strength.
- Exploring different ways of being and knowing.
- Learning and experiencing practical wisdom.
- Further developing abilities to connect with ourselves, nature, community and that which is often invisible.
- Creating perspective and understanding of interconnections and patterns
- Falling in love with the world again and again through re-enchanting active change
- Further developing an ability to navigate times of transition and crisis.
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It's been a while since I finished this course, which took me through the fallout of the global lockdown, started me thinking about how to bring all the different parts of myself to my work and life and encouraged literal and metaphorical journeying 'home'. What I most enjoyed was the variety it offered and the way that it melded the personal, collective and ancestral. There were different ways to learn together, in pairs and individually and the final collection of the work generated as a community is something that I can return to every now and then as a resource for my work in social justice, dance and liberation. Highly recommended!
