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May 2020
Orphan Wisdom School: People Come From Away ~ overseas class (4/4)
This session is for Orphan Wisdom School scholars who have come to be known as 'Those Come From Away'. SESSION 1 of 4: May 17th-21st, 2017 in Llanrhian, Wales, UK SESSION 2 of 4: May 30th-June 3rd, 2018 in Árneshreppur, Iceland SESSION 3 of 4: May 22nd-26th, 2019 in Llanrhian, Wales, UK SESSION 4 of 4: May 24th-28th, 2020 St. David's, Wales, UK led by Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW, Founder and Principal Instructor of The Orphan Wisdom School. NOTE this is a closed class,…
Find out more »July 2020
Die Wise, While There is Still Such a Thing as Wisdom
This is not a training, not a qualification, not something you might get for yourself instead of the standard schooling. This is disqualification. This is something you might get for yourself because of your standard schooling. This is disillusion of the stoutest kind. Linger over 'disillusion', though, and you might catch the spirit of radical investigation, relentless uncertainty, naked wonder, that will inform our meeting. You might in these few days together find a willingness to get out from under what brought…
Find out more »2020 Orphan Wisdom Apprenticeship
Tuesday July 14th - Sunday, July 19th, 2020 at Orphan Wisdom, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada - Apprenticeship went the way of old courtesy in most working environments long ago. But apprenticeship is an old courtesy. It was there in the Mystery Schools, in the guild halls, in any place people were willing to marry discipline to the desire for understanding, to sire purposeful lives, achieved and contemplative lives that were indivisible from their daily lives. Discipline: The uncommon rigour of…
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