Facilitation
I design and facilitate workshops to inspire critical thinking and feeling through experiential learning.
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Digital Wisdom with the College of Modern Anxiety (upcoming)
I will be co-facilitating this 5-week evening course supported by Westminster Council on developing critical thinking towards the use of social media and AI tools.
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Escaping McMindfulness: On the Commodification of Craving
I facilitated this participatory workshop exploring consumer capitalism's dependence on our perpetual craving and the promise of satisfaction. We explored the Buddhist teaching of samsara to examine how cycles of suffering are sustained under capitalism, where satisfaction and fulfilment are sought after yet never fully realised. Workshop details available here.
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Feel Tank: On Ambivalence, Dissatisfaction and Disappointment
I ran this experiment in reflecting on and exploring the complexity, ambivalence, and perhaps nonsensical nature of feelings. More information about this on my projects page.
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Critical Hedonism(s): On the Politics of Desire
I led this group discussion on the politics of desire at a Degrowth festival in Germany with activists and campaigners from across Europe. We explored how we may desire differently in ways not dependent on economic growth and consumption, with examples from our own lives of ways we find pleasure and happiness that are collectivist and anti-capitalist.