Welcome to Story Paths.
Why stories? Because they help us imagine together, for one reason. They help us see possible pasts, possible futures.
Welcome welcome, welcome.
Today is a special issue. The audio version has music, so do have a listen. I’ll also share an amazing course that a friend and mentor of mine is putting on.
Let's start with the music. I recently traveled southward to Kentucky to visit a dear friend. There, amongst other wonderful experiences, I met a man called Isaac Fosl-Van Wyke. He was playing his songs at a little club, along with an artist who goes by the name Mother Marrow.
One of Isaac's songs, Coming of Age, fits so well with the theme of these last episodes, about a Third Ethics, about becoming aware of the wider world, of the times in which we live, and the gifts and responsibilities this time bestows upon us.
This song is called Coming of Age. Have a listen in the audio version.
Isaac’s whole album is excellent. You can it at these links.
Bandcamp, the best way I know to support artists directly.
Apple Music (pays artists a bit more than Spotify)
Spotify, who don’t pay artists nearly enough!
Also…
There’s about an upcoming course offering by Laura Burns, a friend and mentor of mine.
Now, there's different ways that I could describe Laura, as I know her, and many other ways besides. And of course, describing a person in words is not the only way to behold them. Which is to say that Laura is an enigmatic, witchy, rooted, seeking, queerly questing, midnight-walking, daylight-jousting-sing-song-songbird-exchanger kind of lady. I'm glad to have encountered her work.
I participated in the last course on this topic that she offered, and now she’s offering it again. It’s called:
Lessons from the Field: Tending the Ancestral Soul
A systemic approach to land, transformative justice and ancestral healing.
In this course, Laura is bringing a very interesting, interwoven cluster of insights. This offers a radical way of looking at the dynamics between victims and perpetrators. This might be really interesting for people who are in the field of nonviolent communication or restorative justice, where the first goal is to stop further harm, and then to help heal the hurter, to help them become a positive agent in the world, nourishing the fundaments of life that they once harmed.
The course starts soon! It’s on May 1st, then every Wednesday after that until June 5th.
What’s Included?
6 Weekly Sessions - 2.5hrs - plus recordings. Sessions are every Wednesday 6.30 - 9.00pm BST, Online via zoom.
50min One-to-one session.
Material to explore each week, including Guided Audio Meditations, and shared reading resources.
In conclusion, Laura is a lovely, like, welcoming person deeply mystical, witchy and cool, and I recommend this and all of her offerings. She’s also doing really wonderful stuff with earth-soul connection ceremony and natural dye fabrics. She's just a really neat lady, so definitely sending love her way.
Until the next
Theo
A song for these times, and a course for you and your relations