Fellow Traveller >>

                                             is a walking meditation and workshop for writers, artists and other wayfarers.

Western knowledge systems work in grids. Land-based life ways work in loops. In walking the streets and cross-ways of any major city, we might begin to perceive the ontological impositions of colonial knowledge-forms on land, time, physical space, and the individual and collective bodymind. We may begin to track their impact on how we move, see, write, speak, listen and think.

In cultivating anti-imperial ways of thinking, speaking and writing, we might consider first: how do we make loops out of grids? 

How do we begin to write and think with place as a collaborator, rather than as an object or setting? And: what story-forms, or other beings, might accompany us, as we move through our places as storytellers? Who are our fellow travellers? 

The shapes of global serpent lore provide an opening into undulating language. How do we move through space as the serpent does- close to the ground, attuned to vibration, and receptive to the subtlest of cues? Through cultivating intuitive, rather than directional, ways of moving, how do we increase our capacity for listening? What other story-forms or beings might be invoked to tend the crossways of language, place, the body, and the spirit? How might their companionship re-shape our thinking, and the stories we seek to tell? 

This workshop takes the form of a 1hr daily walk, with guided instructions, and accompanying workshop. It is adaptable in format and length: it can be for a group of participants, or a solitary participant, online or in-person. It can be delivered over the course of one day. However, for optimal depth, this process should unfold over a three day continuous period, or a three week long durational period with three weekly cohort meetings.

The fee for delivery of this workshop starts at 800 USD for a one day session. 

This workshop was first delivered for graduate students at NYU, at the invitation of Dr Gayatri Gopinath. 

Access note: this workshop involves traversing physical space on foot, however adaptations are available for wheelchair users and other in need of mobility modifications.