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Bayo Akomolafe

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Sophie Strand

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Satish Kumar

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Vandana Shiva

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Charlotte Du Cann

Charlotte is a writer, editor and co-director of The Dark Mountain Project.

Charlotte's most recent book, After Ithaca is about recovering our core relationships with the mythos and the more-than-human world, revolving around the Underworld tasks of Psyche. She teaches collaborative writing and lives between the beet and barley fields of East Anglia and its wild salty edge.

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Kinship: Being Together

A transformative online course exploring community, relationality & belonging in the worlds we live in. What does it mean to belong? What does it mean to be in relationship with the ever-unfurling world we find ourselves a part of? What, exactly, is community? And who do we really mean when we say _we_? The Kinship 2022 course is an exploration into being together in a time when being apart has fractured our relationship to self, other, and the more-than-human in ways that have left us painfully adrift. It is a timely collective inquiry into how community, relationality, and belonging can revitalise our sense of aliveness as creatures of and participants in this animate earth, and how such a renewal might influence our actions towards greater flourishing. _One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone._ Shannon L. Alder

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Why kinship?

Excerpts from Part 1 of the online inquiry: Kinship: An Exploration into Being Together with Gavin Van Horn, Jeremy Lent and Charlotte Du Cann. In this session we began by framing our collective crises through the lens of relationship. We wanted to ask: how have our ways of relating created destruction? Where have we been separated from reality, each other, and our more-than-human kin? Why does the "crisis of relationship" matter? We focus on the loss of belonging which resides at the core of many of the crises we face. We want to understand why belonging is integral to life, the ways we relate, and how we flourish as human (and more-than human) beings. We will explore how kinship as a form of relationship and belonging is crucial during these times of unravelling.