The Slow Work Garden

The Slow Work Garden is a collective of creative facilitators dedicated to the design and living of slow work.

We live in a time of planetary emergency that is difficult even to think about. Huge shifts are needed in order to build a regenerative future for ourselves and our planet. But the fast pace of modernity and its relentless pursuit of ‘more’ keeps us distracted and exhausted. The world around us suffers as we make choices out of convenience, profit and efficiency, rather than choices aligned with our own values. It’s increasingly difficult for even highly ‘purpose-driven’ people and organisations to separate from the idea that productivity and speed = worth and success. We must engage in a paradox: the act of urgently slowing down.

We believe it’s possible to live a generative life in rhythm with the natural order of things; to learn to re-ritualise our lives, sit with the anxieties of our souls, and give life to other ways of knowing and being.

We come together to co-create a living pedagogy of slow work for individual and collective regeneration, and as a community of practice who can work with some of the most pressing issues of our time.