Generative worlding
Generative Worlding was inspired by two experiences.
The first was Bayo Akomolafe's description of worlding, shared in These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home: 'There are no beginnings that appear unperturbed, pristine and without hauntings. And there are no endings that are devoid of traces of the new, spontaneous departures from disclosure, and simmering events that are yet to happen. The middle isn’t the space between things; it is the world in its ongoing practices of worlding itself’.
The second was the response my husband, W (an amazing designer and maker of electric guitars), had to a post-Facilitation Pods session where I was trying to put into words the depth of insight, attention, wisdom, and care within the pods, where he said he wished he could be a fly on the wall.
For GW, the 'world in its ongoing practices of worlding itself' is explored through ecological enquiry, meaning that we become curious about, pay attention to, and become intimate with humans as ecological beings. Utilising this ecological enquiry, GW brings the listener into the room as a small group attentively and gently explores their lived experience of what it means to be ecological, informed by and informing neighbourhoods, place, ancestral lines, current events, histories, ecoystems, social systems, social constructs, cultural stories, other humans, the more-than-human, and possible futures. GW, therefore, looks to live the question: 'What can we discover of worlding when we sit together in ecological enquiry?'
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