The Ground We Gather On

This is a gathering place for the questions, resources and conversations shaping my practice. It brings lived experience into contact with research, philosophy, cultural knowledge, spirituality and the work of thinkers who help me see familiar subjects differently.

The resources shared here are not intended to form a definitive curriculum or present a collection of settled conclusions. They are openings: essays, books, talks and ideas that invite further attention.

A highlighted work is not necessarily one I endorse in full. It is one that interrupted an assumption, offered unexpected language or opened a question worth staying with.

Current highlight: Hospicing Modernity — Vanessa Machado de Olivera

In the Spotlight

Current highlight: What Climate Collapse Asks of Us — Báyò Akómoláfé

Akómoláfé reflects on urgency, crisis and the limitations of responding to complex problems through greater speed and control.

Why it caught my attention: His questioning of urgency speaks to my desire to protect the pace and integrity of inquiry. Slowing down is not indifference or inaction; it may allow us to notice what our fastest solutions repeatedly overlook.

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Current highlight: What Climate Collapse Asks of Us — Báyò Akómoláfé

Akómoláfé reflects on urgency, crisis and the limitations of responding to complex problems through greater speed and control.

Why it caught my attention: His questioning of urgency speaks to my desire to protect the pace and integrity of inquiry. Slowing down is not indifference or inaction; it may allow us to notice what our fastest solutions repeatedly overlook.

Explore the other themes:

  • Cyclical Knowledge explores what changes when menstrual, hormonal, seasonal and life cycles are treated as sources of information rather than inconveniences to overcome.

    This strand is growing alongside my Peaceful Periods Facilitator training in holistic womb care for teens. I am interested in how cyclical awareness might reshape education, care, creativity and working life—particularly within environments organised around consistency, constant availability and linear productivity.

    The inquiry brings embodied experience into conversation with research, cultural knowledge and contemporary menstrual-health frameworks. It does not assume that one rhythm, method or account will apply to every body.

    Current highlight: In the FLO — Alisa Vitti

  • Education & Inquiry follows questions that do not remain neatly inside the classroom.

    Here, education meets philosophy, economics, politics, spirituality, history and culture. I am interested in what educational environments transmit beyond their formal curriculum: whose knowledge is treated as authoritative, what kind of person a system expects us to become and how learning might cultivate responsibility without demanding unquestioning obedience.

    This section will gather short reflections, talks and other resources that complicate familiar ideas about teaching, authority, progress and belonging.

    Current highlight: The Crisis in Education — Hannah Arendt

  • Books in Conversation is a space for reading across traditions rather than placing a single author or discipline above the others.

    Instead of conventional reviews, I will offer concise notes on the questions a book raises, the assumptions it unsettles and the other voices it calls into the room. A work of political philosophy might sit beside a reflection on care, spirituality, education, economics or embodied knowledge.

    The aim is not to produce a final judgement about each book, but to notice what becomes visible when different texts—and the worlds from which they emerged—are allowed to encounter one another.

    Current highlight: Consciencism — Kwame Nkrumah