Practicing New Worlds

What are you practicing?

This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons, even if we can’t quite perceive the details from here, and who wants to be practicing  toward that world. We’ll be exploring ways we can be doing that even right now, especially right now, in the midst of all THIS.

To ground our conversation, we’ll be sitting with Andrea Ritchie’s latest book, Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, which is full-to-bursting with interviews and stories from organizers all over Turtle Island, folks who are practicing ways to care for people, create more safety, and “shape change” away from punishment and incarceration and toward a future where collectively we have everything we need to survive and thrive. We’ll be able to ask questions of Andrea and one another, and we’ll also spend time in practices of various kinds–imaginative, embodied, spiritual–with the goal of discerning our next steps toward the just, juicy, and joyful worlds we are conjuring.

Oh, and by the way, the “you” in that question above is plural as well as singular. Feel free to bring your comrades and co-laborers with you, or to come on your own to experiment with practices you can take home to your communities.

Please read the book in advance; you can get a copy here, or request it from your local library. An audiobook is also available.

NOTE: Scholarships are available for this event! To inquire, just email lydiawk [at] kirkridge [dot] org with the amount you can afford to pay.