STAGGERED • SUMMONED • STILLED

Stephen Jenkinson
at the Orphan Wisdom Hall
Ontario, Canada

STAGGERED • SUMMONED • STILLED
A Thinking Man’s Brush With Neurodegeneration

July 16-19, 2026
Orphan Wisdom Hall
Ontario, Canada

It’s good to be wrong about yourself from time to time. It lets other people in.

A year ago I thought I was in a swoon of disablement. No school. No Grief/Mystery. No being cool. I was in the death grip of a beast, almost pure prey, curled in upon myself.

Seems I was off a bit in the prognosis. What a difference a year makes.

During that year I wrote – or staggered, with a pen. I’d no book in mind, no audience, no cause. Not survival, not sanity. It was what I had for instinct. I was barely there.

It’s a book now, though, due out in early July 2026. Just in time for a decent read before this new session.

-Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson’s
Trembling, Still:
The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse
to be published 7 July 2026,
will be the body and soul of this session.

A PDF copy of Trembling, Still goes to each registrant.

For details about this book, visit:
Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse

I admit I am mad keen to take the veil down off the pages, and wonder with you about mind, brain, degeneration, soul, God.

And am I ever desirous to open the doors of the old home of Orphan Wisdom to you, and shrug off the foregone for a while.

In that beamed hall we’ll get after some big work this time.

-Stephen Jenkinson

Details

July 16, 2-5 pm: Welcome table opens, followed by evening session.
July 17 and 18: Two sessions per day.
July 19: Event concludes at noon following morning session.

Tuition Includes

• Six sessions with Stephen in the Orphan Wisdom Hall
• Handmade meals
• PDF access to the new book Trembling, Still: The Awful Clarity of a Mind in Eclipse

Tuition does not include accommodation.
We offer on-site private and shared rooms ranging from to $150-$350 per person for the event. We also offer onsite camping for $45 per person, you provide tent, tarp, bedding and all tools. Otherwise there are local hotels and motels available.

Tuition

$1800 – Tuition
$1500 – Per member for each family attending together, seniors, students, and those who wish to qualify for financial consideration

From Trembling, Still:

“We go out of our minds sometimes. Sometimes it’s for keeps. /where do we go when we do? Out of our mind, into what? God willing, we’ll be beyond caring by then. Having done so, do we ever go back, then? Are the ties that bind stretched like the elastic waist of old foundation garments? Will our minds take us back, once we’ve philandered? Does being in our minds ever lose its appeal? Is it like going out of business?”