🌀✨The Meld
🔖 A placeholder for The Meld: A newsletter about connecting dots, gathering people, and the alchemy of the in-between
🔖 This is soft placeholder for: The Meld.
I live for connecting the dots— between ideas and people, between who we are and who we want to be, between each other. It’s in that space we live in possibility.
The Meld is a container where we can explore the in-between. We’re noodling on:
togetherness: How might we think relationally? How might we create new containers for care and community?
time & thresholds: How do we navigate transitions? What rituals support us? How do we hold change?
translation: How might we listen more deeply? What lies underneath our words and stories?
transdisciplinarity: How might different worlds speak to one another? What happens when we cross-pollinate different perspectives and practices?
I’ll be sharing from 15-years of practicing design in the social sector, a lifetime of creative ritual & gathering, and original trans-disciplinary research on holding people through transformation.
Meld is for the pattern-finders— seeking meaning outside any discipline. It’s for the boundary-spanners and link-finders— those connecting dots between worlds. It’s for the change chaplains and design doulas—who are holding our organizations and projects into what’s possible. It’s for the connection alchemists—who gather and bricolage belonging in our life. The weavers and welders—who’s craft is in bringing pieces of the world together.
A preview— comment to nudge forward:
To Meld: Playful alchemy and the mysterious etymology of melding
What we can learn from newsletters from nuns, papergirls, and father of kindergarten?
Corridors, hallways, and portals: Designing the in-between spaces
Book duets, emergent libraries & literary paths: Conversations between books & humans
The choreography of change: What we can learn from dance and alternative notation about change?
Prototyping possibility: Lessons in worldbuilding from Summer Camp
Darn it: Beauty in our broken spots and the craft of creative repair
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