In May 2024 we also started the first for Europe learning circle based on Vanessa de Oliveira’s Hospicing Moderninty. This was another outcome of the international integrative retreat we hosted in Bulgaria, where we collectively recognized this body of work as an important foundation for discovering what is ours to do under the Healing Circles Europe initiative and its future offerings.
“What if the motivation to survive alongside one another in a finite planet in dynamic balance…will come through being taught collectively by the disease itself? What if collective healing will be made possible precisely by facing – together – the end of the world as we know it?”
The Hospicing Modernity book offers some powerful and challenging invitations to reconsider our dominant assumptions about progress, knowing, and relating. It confronts us with our conditioning and helps us and see through the nested and interdependent crises we are living through and reimagine how we may live through these collapses with humility and grace.
It gives us the medicines and tools for facing the death of the current project and the parts of us that sustain it; to expand our capacity for holding complexity, paradox, and disillusionment. And to be in service to a different future, from a place of hope.