Focusers Guide to the Galaxy. Listening at the Edge of the World Series: language as world-making in Lakota thought
10th June 2026 - 29th July 2026 Zoom
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Listening at the Edge of the World is a seven-session lunchtime series exploring language, land, and the felt sense of a living Earth through embodied, Focusing-based encounters with global thinkers, poets, and Indigenous wisdom carriers.
Each session invites slow, reflective attention to a key voice and theme:
10 June — Nick Estes on language as world-making in Lakota thought, where reality is understood as ongoing relationship and process.
17 June — Ailton Krenak on the Earth as relative, challenging human separation from nature and modern ideas of ownership.
24 June — Robin Wall Kimmerer on grammar and the aliveness of language, showing how speech can either objectify or reanimate the more-than-human world.
1 July — Winona LaDuke on land as living memory and responsibility, grounded in place-based Indigenous knowledge and futures.
8 July — Martin Prechtel on grief and praise as ecological relationship, where grief becomes love in reciprocity with the world.
22 July — Bayo Akomolafe on slowing down at the edge of becoming, shifting from urgency toward attunement and uncertainty.
29 July — Wangari Maathai on rooted ecological action, where small embodied acts become participation in long-term planetary healing.
Together, the series offers a shared space for inquiry where meaning arises through experience, presence, and relational listening rather than abstract interpretation
Pricing
Single Session: £15 (£12.50 concession, £6 financially strapped)
All 6 Sessions: £60
Beyond Financially Strapped: By donation