Post #3730911

2026-07-10 22:28 UTC

I have the opportunity to give a class at a local venue, and even have someone help me advertise it. I want to tie together our conception of Practice as well as something pragmatically related to land stewardship, but I'm trying hard to nail down exactly how to frame this. Something like (not as a title for the class, just to name the concept): - Stewardship through Practice and Practice through Stewardship - Learning the rhythms of the land to reconnect with oneself and place in the whole -- who are we in the context of the land? - Right "awakening" through right action -- kind of stepping away from consumptive New Ageism and into degrowth/deconsumption and more rooted practice that involves landwork as ritual Does anyone have any thoughts? Is this train of thought follow-able at all?

Replies (3)

@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social 2026-07-10 23:26

@Siiin@pagan.plus This makes perfect sense to me and sounds like a great idea.

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@ard_the_rich@mastodon.art 2026-07-11 11:44

@Siiin@pagan.plus your mind is full of thoughts and ideas and enthusiasm. Lovely. Don't miss out any of that in your class. However, a headline is different, not just a dense version of same thoughts, another layer. You intuitively know it, so you ask. The title should give a purpose, a motivation, a why. Not what and not how. It must be short; one thing, not a sequence. And motivation is an emotional thing. This twist in thinking is very challanging. I also don't have a golden answer. (continue)

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@Siiin@pagan.plus 2026-07-12 20:11

For pragmatic reasons I decided to initially pitch an arc of classes that's more focused on the systemic concepts of closed-loop homesteading in a resource-stressed environment, because the venue I ended up choosing to host with is unlikely to accept the other topic. And then when considering hosting the originally proposed topic online to folks here who may be interested, I realized, maybe this is too close to something @fey@pagan.plus is already hosting? So I may save this concept for a future class once I feel out the local audience a bit and maybe talk to some of the other local venues that might be more conducive to such a class. That said, would anyone here be interested in the hard skills courses being offered online?

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