Worm Time Dialogues - Autumn Equinox

Worm Time Dialogues follow the Wheel of the Year and are a gentle invitation to attune to the rhythms and cycles of nature, and explore your relationship to nature time. If you are feeling the weight of the fast-paced, productivity-focused, mechanistic experience of time, then this workshop is for you.

This Worm Time dialogue will draw inspiration from the energy and wisdom available to us at Autumn Equinox. This Pagan and Celtic festival (taking place this year on 23rd September), is a threshold moment and marker between seasons as we start to prepare to move into the dark half of the year. Together we will explore what we can learn and experience by paying attention to nature's rhythms. 

“Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.” - Lao Tzu

What is a Worm Time dialogue?

This workshop is an invitation to slow down, listen, reflect, share and connect with yourself, others and the world around you. It is grounded in the principles and practice of Bohm Dialogue - a facilitated listening practice that allows individuals to develop communication, thinking and relating skills and groups to deeply enquire together, share meaning and create new thinking. It combines this with the emergent philosophy of 'Worm Time.'

Worm Time, formerly known as ‘doing nothing,’ is a period of creative rest, where we can

-metabolise our experiences
-compost our thoughts and feelings
-turn over new ideas

Like the magically complex world that exists in the soil under our feet, allowing ourselves creative rest, is the time for the invisible ‘work’ to take place. The integration of our outer and inner worlds that allows us to feel balanced and whole. It is this journey back to wholeness that can allow us to feel ourselves as vital and thriving parts of the interconnected web of life. 

Prioritising time to slow down and connect with others, in a space that gives permission to be your authentic self, can also be a powerful tool of resistance and replenishment in our current overly mechanistic and capitalistic cultures. 

Session overview

10:15-10:30 - Arrivals
10:30 - 11:00 - Welcome, check-in and mindfulness
11:00 - 12:00 - Framing exercises
12:00 - 12:15 - Short break
12:15 - 13:30 - Dialogue
13:30 - 14:30 - Lunch break
14:30 - 15:00 - Framing exercises
15:00 - 16:15 - Dialogue
16:15 - 16:30 - Short break
16:45 - 17:30 - Closing activity  

The session incorporates short framing exercises, individually, in pairs and small groups. These simple creative exercises are designed to cultivate curiosity and stimulate deeper thinking on universal experiences and feelings that can be explored in more depth during the dialogue. The dialogue itself is practised in a circle: creating an inclusive and non-hierarchical space. The process requires deep listening that allows for inquiry into what is important to individuals and the group. Participants are not required to speak unless they feel moved to do so; the group will follow the ‘flow of meaning’ and moments of silence are welcome. Dialogue does not require agreement during the process or specific outcomes. However, it does require a willingness to participate with respect, openness and non-judgement.

Find out about further dialogues here.

A note on pricing
I believe that the world urgently needs more dialogue, and that the experience and skills of dialogue should be accessible to anyone. I keep my public facing dialogue workshops as low-cost as possible, to cover the cost of venue hire for in-person workshops and a small contribution for online sessions. 

• If the cost is still inaccessible to you and you would like to attend please get in touch.
• If you are an organisation and would like to discuss how dialogue could benefit you please get in touch. My facilitation and dialogue work in organisations is what allows me to offer low-cost public dialogues.
  jessica@creatingmeaning.club