Join me for the Running With Wolves Reading Group, where we explore reading as a door to the wild Self—to soulful, spirit-led wisdom and embodied becoming. Recognizing that stories can either free the human brain or keep it enchained, we will read for insights into the keys the stories hold for our personal and collective liberation. In live meetings, we will individually and as a group integrate our insights, and create capacity to actively choose the aliveness available to us in and as consciousness and Earth-community.
During each meeting, I will provide unique frameworks for engaging with the readings so as to enable self-inquiry, collaborative conversations, agential ritual, and other processes of active becoming.
During each meeting, I will provide unique frameworks for engaging with the readings so as to enable self-inquiry, collaborative conversations, agential ritual, and other processes of active becoming.
From July through December, we will focus on visionary literature.
I see visionary literature as the edge of revelation. Visionary memory remembers what has been and what is possible. Reading a book a month, in these first six sessions we will consider: What can we learn about ourselves, our relationship to earth/nature and to each other? What can these books tell us about our/other worlds, so as to invite possibilities into reality? How can we image new ways of being through reading as we engage with reading in community?
I see visionary literature as the edge of revelation. Visionary memory remembers what has been and what is possible. Reading a book a month, in these first six sessions we will consider: What can we learn about ourselves, our relationship to earth/nature and to each other? What can these books tell us about our/other worlds, so as to invite possibilities into reality? How can we image new ways of being through reading as we engage with reading in community?
DATES
Please mark the dates for our upcoming live online meetings on your calendar:
2022 — 12pm to 2pm PT
• July 13
• August 10
• September 14
• October 12
• November 9
• December 7
2023 Dates — coming soon
You will be sent a link to access the live meetings once you register.
Please mark the dates for our upcoming live online meetings on your calendar:
2022 — 12pm to 2pm PT
• July 13
• August 10
• September 14
• October 12
• November 9
• December 7
2023 Dates — coming soon
You will be sent a link to access the live meetings once you register.
FOR THE NEXT MEETING (July 13)
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The book we will begin with is The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. Le Guin’s writing, as Margaret Atwood says, concerns itself “with the nature of human nature,” making it an ideal opening book for us. According to Le Guin herself, The Dispossessed came from her encounters with “a whole mess of utopias” in the wake of her need to understand her own opposition to the US war on Vietnam. “Knowing only that I didn’t want to study war no more, I studied peace,” she reflected. Let’s read this visionary book to see what what comes alive for us about ourselves and each other.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
(1) How much is the investment?
Tuition for the reading group is $12-$21 sliding scale for the month. You can register for a single session, or sign up for a monthly membership. The membership can be stopped at anytime.
Registration fees are on a sliding scale, allowing for different price points, to make these sessions accessible for folks with different financial experiences.
(1) How much is the investment?
Tuition for the reading group is $12-$21 sliding scale for the month. You can register for a single session, or sign up for a monthly membership. The membership can be stopped at anytime.
Registration fees are on a sliding scale, allowing for different price points, to make these sessions accessible for folks with different financial experiences.
If registering for a single session, please be sure to do so by the day before the live meeting to get access!
(2) Do I need to have read the book by the meeting date?
Ideally, yes. It would help you drop into the fluidity of our conversations more meaningfully. But if you have not been able to finish the book/text we are reading, that's fine–you will still contribute to the field of the class if you were present with the pages you did read, and brought that to the meeting with you.
(3) Is there an online community in addition to the live online meetings?
Not yet, but an online Running With Wolves community is in the works. The intention is for the online community to become a place to engage and explore with other readers, as well as access video recordings and additional resources. (Please see below if you are interested in serving as a community intern.)
(4) I would love to be considered for an internship.
We would love to hear from you! Please apply here.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Monica Mody, Ph.D. M.F.A., is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She writes and presents internationally on cross-border perspectives, visionary poetics, art and spirituality, and other ways of knowing. She is Core Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe, and also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Dr. Mody was born in Ranchi, India, and lives in San Francisco, ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. She has studied and circled with elders, wisdom-keepers, and medicine holders from many earth-based and indigenous traditions, developing an interconnected worldview rooted in ancestral non-dual practices. She has also facilitated divinatory, grief work, community and women’s healing sessions, spaces, and circles.
Monica Mody, Ph.D. M.F.A., is a transdisciplinary educator, poet, writer, and theorist at the intersections of earth-based wisdom, whole person philosophy, and embodied regenerative consciousness. She writes and presents internationally on cross-border perspectives, visionary poetics, art and spirituality, and other ways of knowing. She is Core Faculty in the Ph.D. program in Visionary Practice & Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe, and also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Dr. Mody was born in Ranchi, India, and lives in San Francisco, ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples. She has studied and circled with elders, wisdom-keepers, and medicine holders from many earth-based and indigenous traditions, developing an interconnected worldview rooted in ancestral non-dual practices. She has also facilitated divinatory, grief work, community and women’s healing sessions, spaces, and circles.