What’s all the commotion about?
Wonder upRising guidebooks call upon us to wonder and question the world around us, our collective values and our participation. What’s just? What is our culture telling me? Who wins and who suffers? What role am I playing in this? We are asked to examine our institutions, processes, cultural norms and personal habits around issues of social, environmental, and relational well-being.
How the guidebooks work:
It’s a bridge between mindfulness and social justice.
It’s a personal growth tool that helps us grow aware of our beliefs, patterns, passions and work in the world.
It encourages us to look outside ourselves and our own lives.
It helps us identify the water we swim in: where we live in the cultural landscape.
It helps us process trauma.
It expands our thinking and grows our capacity to wonder.
It acts as a third thing. It is a something, a place we go, rather than a someone, asking the evocative questions for us to engage with. It offers neutrality.
It questions our actions, habits and lifestyle.
It questions our privilege, our anthropocentrism, and equity in the world.
When used in groups (using the facilitation guide):
It equalizes voices and who gets to talk.
It’s a community building tool that models a new way to be together and hear each other.
It holds space for diverse ages, races and beliefs.
It creates an opportunity to hear from people who hold different stories than we do.
It’s a practice place where we can sit in the “I don’t know”, consider more than one solution or opinion. We can practice neutrality. No answer is right or wrong. The questions are open-ended.
where does it work?
Self-study and transformation
Team/community-building, culture creation
Creative innovation arenas
Book clubs looking for something new
Boardrooms and Board retreats
Facilitation trainings
Churches & places of worship
High school & university curriculum
Relationship building
Communities with diverse members
Co-housing/Intentional communities
Co-working spaces
Yoga studios/teacher training