31/03/2024
Yesterday I announced that Autumn Animals will go quiet on social media for a few months while I try to create more space and a slower pace of life for myself and business cat Lewis.
I'll be joining the wonderful people from for a three-month-long action inquiry to explore questions about grief and slowing down. This is what they say about their work...
"At the Slow Work Garden, we have a deep and abiding trust that there are more compassionate, kind and loving ways to live and work – and that as a collection of humans, we have the creative capacity to draw these ways into the fabric of the everyday. One of the ways we do this is by hosting action inquiries – p*er learning journeys where we come together with others to co-explore and live into big questions as guides for living, moving and feeling in the world. Questions like, ‘What if we learnt to slow down?’ and ‘What if we learnt to organise cyclically?"
"[...] in collaboration with the wonderful Christina Watson (), host of the recent Death x Life Huddle, [we] explore the question: What if we learnt to grieve together?
From the beginning at The Slow Work Garden, we named 'grieving' as one of our slow work practices. For us, practising something is living it, embedding it in the everyday. This journey is for people who are drawn to exploring the expansiveness of grief, what it means to grieve as a practice, and the potential of grief as a portal for imagining and world building."
So, this work is not only going to be important and grounding for me as a person but also for my work as an End of Life Doula and the guardian of a super senior cat.
I'll be back with content in the autumn, ready to watch my sapling grow into a majestic bright orange Japanese Maple tree.
