June 2019
Come of Age – The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble ~ ON
"Getting older is inevitable; becoming an elder is a skill. Where is that difference to be learned? " Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW June 20-23, 2019 at Orphan Wisdom, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada (details below) The sages seem to be departing. Elections enthrone Change, that’s all. The tribal lines are deepening. And there's the weather, and the waters. The appearance of it all is this: It's getting worse. And worse: We’d rather be defeated than persuaded. Perhaps we will be. In a time like…
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Orphan Wisdom Apprenticeship
Saturday July 27-Saturday, August 3, 2019 at Orphan Wisdom, Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada (details below) 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 thought and act that…
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Orphan Wisdom School Graduate Class- People Come Through Rain & Rune meet People by the Times Begotten ~ 2019 fall
First Graduate Class: People Come Through Rain & Rune meet People by the Times Begotten Wednesday, October 2nd - Sunday 6th, 2019 We would not have guessed it, years ago, but the longer the Orphan Wisdom School is up and running the more that people with undiagnosed, undisclosed and indefensible proneness to learning unwelcome things about what they know, and proneness to life, appear. Now you are scholars who have completed your first 4 sessions. You have provoked weddings and…
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