Ripples and Rumbles: Disorientation and Imagination (Getting Lost in the Wild Mystery)

The Series

Subversion. The dictionary definition is “to turn from below.” At Big Waves, we yearn to turn things …the things that are getting in the way of collective liberation. We work with organizations pursuing that vision, and we focus on the turning. We think about subversion, and we think of “below” as places that are hidden, unspoken, taken for granted, and invisible. Inside ourselves, and in our relationships.

Last year we talked about this in a series of public, recorded conversations we called Ripples and Rumbles. We talked about queerness, power, conflict, and reconciliation. We’ve been thinking about those conversations, and how so many of us sense there is a different leap we can make, a hidden path we can find, beyond all of the big hearted and heavy lifting so many are already joined in. One of the explorations we are most energized by is an exploration of knowing, not knowing, and its realms. What kinds of knowing are prioritized and reproduced, and what kinds are ignored or silenced? How are our efforts to transform affected by this? 

We are exploring this with others again, in a series of public and recorded conversations that we are calling Ripples and Rumbles: Subverting Knowing. It is a five part series, setting the stage first with the story of knowledge as we understand it today, and then considering less dominant forms of knowledge: outsiderness, edge work, disorientation, imagination, and sensual and embodied knowing. We will close with a step back from knowing, to being.

The Fourth Conversation: 

"Disorientation and Imagination (Getting Lost in the Wild Mystery)"

Think of a time you felt disoriented. What about getting lost? Are these unsettling things? What if we felt these experiences as an opening, a chance to see what’s been unseen? Wandering out of our familiar paths and patterns can let in wildness, mystery and imagination. We might find that we like to be turned around, that it revives a connection to ourselves and ways of being that we didn’t know we’d misplaced. Join Brook and Amani Will for a conversation about how less knowing, and more wonder, might bring unexpected and forgotten ways of understanding ourselves and the world. 

Amani Will (he/they/we) is a Mixed Media, Augmented Altar-nate Reality, Fractal Liberation Collagist; An Embodied, Mindful, Transgenerationally Therapeutic, Creative Liberation Coach, Counselor, and Council for Change Makers in a Changing World. We honor, synthesize, & unpack cross cultural information, innate wisdom, and soul retrieval, to help dismantle internal & external systems of oppression & free up embodied, integrated, creative liberation. Our main mediums are film, music, & Inner Equity Coaching Council.

Join Brook and Amani for this fourth conversation in the Big Waves series Ripples and Rumbles: Subverting Knowing.

Link to join will be emailed to registrants in the week of the conversation.