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There is a lot going on in the world. We cannot do it all. Not to mention: the times are urgent… we must slow down. That being said, we would still like you to know about some of the electrifying, worlds-worlding, side-eye-glancing, upside-down and inside-out events and occurrences that ten is hosting, supporting or uplifting.
Re-imagining Education Conference: Cycles of Change
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Ecoversities Alliance
WHEN: Thursday, February 26th – Sunday, March 1st
WHERE: Online everywhere
The REC is a space where reimagining is understood as a living cycle — rich with ups and downs, twists and turns, and journeys inward and outward. It is based on the belief that how we learn changes how we live. In this fifth iteration of the online conference, the REC becomes an emergent research experiment and a living laboratory for critical pedagogy. This year, we learn from the changing cycles of our collective work and from the wisdom of the Earth and its elements.
To learn more and register, click here.
The School of Cracks
{Báyò event}
WHO: The Garrison Institute, Báyò Akómoláfé and Laura Peña Zanatta
WHEN: Online: Wednesday, March 4th; Tuesday, March 10th; Saturday, March 21st | 11:30am EDT | In-Person: Friday, March 27th – Tuesday, March 31st
WHERE: Online Everywhere & In-Person: 14 Mary’s Way | Garrison | NY | U.S.A.
With rising fires and blood-orange skies inflamed by loss, genocide, and the drift of authoritarian winds, the weather forecast for the futures we hope for doesn’t look too good. In the middle of multidimensional storms, a singular question – emerging from the anxieties of our days – pierces the spin of things: what do we do? How do we become responsible to these moments of ruin and rule? This course explores the idea that societal systems and certainties have inherent fissures (cracks) that serve as potent sites for unexpected transformation and new ways of being.
Learn more and register here.
FORE-PLAY
{ten Public Event}
WHO: The Emergence Network
WHEN: Saturday, March 21st | 11:00 am EDT
WHERE: Online Everywhere
We want to think, share, and practice together to expand our capacity for play. We are being called to remember a forgotten truth in the midst of busy, modern lives: play is medicine. And, at ten, we’ve been asking: WHAT IS PLAY? How do we become more playful? How can we make ourselves available to the spirit of play (especially if its very essence resists trying, planning and predictability)? To find out, we’re hosting a FORE-PLAY SESSION (you read it right!) where we’ll dive into some of these questions to learn more about what play is and how it works on us before we create our 2026 offerings. We’ll use games, World Café conversations, storytelling and collective somatic noticing to learn together about play.
Register for some FORE-PLAY here.
Journey through Grief
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Lama Rod Owens
WHEN: March 2026 – March 2027
WHERE: Online Everywhere
In the tradition of spiritual abolition, grief is understood to be a teacher and partner, helping us to recognize that grief is the tension we feel as something changes, forcing us to figure out who we are in this shifting. And grief is the uncomfortable experience of not getting what we want. Mourning is how we tend to grief – through expressing the experience of discomfort, ambiguity, somatic embodiment, and ritual. Join Lama Rod for this spiritual abolitionist journey where they will rely on the wisdom of Tantric Buddhism, African spirituality, the Black Prophetic tradition, American Indigenous traditions, & sacred herbalism to understand and experience why our full embodiment of freedom must center tending to our broken hearts while invoking real joy to hold the labor of liberation.
Learn more and register here.
Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Alixa Garcia
WHEN: Saturday, January 24th – Sunday, May 31st
WHERE: Online everywhere (in-person option upon completion)
It begins with the body – the first territory we can liberate. Imaginal is a six-month journey including communion with the body, supporting the remembrance of nature as the ultimate creative force, and the cultivation of a liberatory imaginal praxis. Imaginal supports disidentification from the inherited colonial language that has captured thoughts and imagination using decolonial and creative somatics to bring bodily awareness to our imagination praxis. After completing the online course, participants may join an in-person gathering in the sacred landscapes of Peru for an additional cost.
Seeds of Radical Renewal Fellowship
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Emergence Magazine
WHEN: Wednesday, May 6th – Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 (online) | Tuesday, June 16th – Saturday, June 20, 2026 (in-person)
WHERE: Online everywhere & In-person: Devon | UK
The Seeds of Radical Renewal Fellowship will create an incubator of emerging leadership and creativity with an approach based on integrating the ontology of spiritual ecology, the adaptive leadership framework, and the power of art and story to create alchemical spaces of regeneration and renewal. With the guidance of guest teachers — acclaimed writer, artist, and thinker James Bridle; adaptive leadership teacher Dana Karout; and filmmaker, author, Sufi teacher, and Emergence Magazine executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee —participants will take part in five online sessions, leading up to a five-day in-person retreat at Sharpham Trust in Devon, England.
Celebrating Not Knowing
{ten Kinship Event}
WHO: Nose to Nose
WHEN: Sunday, July 26th – Friday, July 31st
WHERE: Peredur Centre | West Hoathly Road | West Sussex | East Grinstead | UK
In a world that often demands certainty, how can we embrace the unknown with openness, curiosity, and playfulness? How can we hold space for deep inquiry, creative exploration, and embodied wisdom? Celebrating Not Knowing is an immersive retreat that invites participants to explore personal, social, and systemic transformation through three unique but interconnected modalities: Social Presencing Theater (SPT), Clowning, and Courage & Renewal Practices. It is a rare opportunity to engage with three internationally recognized facilitators — Arawana Hayashi, Vivian Gladwell, and Penny Williamson — each bringing a distinct yet complementary approach to accessing insight and resilience through embodied practice, deep listening, and clowning improvisation.
Learn more here.