the remix
2024
Growing cultures of connection, courage and creativity in troubled times
Join our 6-month action-learning course centered on composting & re-imagining the story of separation.
May-October 2024
You’ll take part in building a creative community of practice-driven change.
Practicing & upholding the change you long to see in the world through live, creative experiments & building kinship with all life.
Apply today to join the next cohort starting May 2024.
6 months to develop life-centric habits & practices
creativity in service to life.
Learn to notice, sense into & work with dying cultural stories
Gain tools & practices for collective imagination work
Develop & integrate habits for building kinship with all life
Grow trust in your own creative intelligence and actions
We are living of a dying story*.
A story of separation from nature, self & each other .
This story has shaped an extractive system of beliefs, norms, structures and ways of knowing that perpetuate exploitation and break-down of our living earth. Deteriorating human and more-than-human health, dividing us from our diversity.
We can’t think our way out of this alone.
We must learn to experience the Earth as alive.
We must radically re-imagine what is possible, then practice & uphold different worlds through new ways of being & creating committed communities of practice.
Will you join us?
*With thanks to Vanessa Andreotti who speaks of ‘expiring stories’ in Hospicing Modernity
How does it work?
Live sessions with guides & guest teachers
Over the 6-months we will follow a journey in tune with the Earth’s rhythm with dedicated time & space for:
Phase 1:
immersing/noticing
Phase 2:
imagining/dreaming
Phase 3:
integrating/becoming
Each phase will be supported by live, participative Zoom sessions with guest speakers & guides.
Opening & closing ceremony
All teaching & sessions on this course are held on Zoom but for our opening & closing ceremony you’ll be guided to create an earth-based ritual with your own lands.
Optional weekly check-ins led by our guides
Every week we will hold open hours to stay connected to the process, nurture accountability, support & build our community of practice
You receive:
Guided opening & closing ceremony with the land where you are
6 x live zoom session with guest teachers
Exclusive audio content
Weekly optional check-ins led by our guides
Creative provocation to deepen your practice in each phase of the course
Experienced guides & mentors
Access to Ongoing Community of Practice & WA group
10% off selected future experiences
Your guides
Got questions about the course? Get in touch to chat with us.
Mark De’Lisser
Poet, Youth Mentor, Space Holder and Creative.
Evva Semenowicz
Experience designer, ritual maker & somatic practitioner
Dan Burgess
Regenerative catalyst, creative activist, co-designer. co-author Stories for Life
Mark Sears
Nature Inspired Facilitator, Wild Guide and Soulful Activist.
Guest teachers
Bayo Akomolafe
Author & trans-public intellectual, chief curator @ Emergence Network
Azul Carolina Duque
Artist & Educator, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective
Ella Saltmarshe
Writer, Educator, Creator The Long Time Project, Inter-Narratives Community
Anab Jain
Designer, futurist, filmmaker, educator, Co-founder Superflux Studio
Ted Hunt
Critical, speculative designer, exploring alternative paradigms
Dates
17th-19th May
Opening ceremony weekend
28th May 6:30-8:30pm*
Session with Bayo Akomolafe
4th June 6-8pm
Session with Azul Carolina Duque
16th July 6-8pm
Session with Ella Saltmarshe
30th July 6-8pm
Session with guest teacher TBC
3rd September 6-8pm
Session with Ted Hunt
26th September 6-8pm
session with Anab Jain
5th-6th October
Closing Ceremony weekend
All times are UK, all time-zones welcome. All sessions will be recorded.
Cost
Payment plans: You can pay the course fee in monthly installments.
The fee can be claimed as a business expense or employee personal development.
Standard £1650
This rate covers the basic costs of hosting this course.
Scholarship £750
We’re able to offer scholarship spots for people with limited proportional income.
If the standard rate prohibits you from joining, we encourage you to apply for a scholarship rate.
To apply for a scholarship, please email hello@becomingcrew.com
Words from the Remix 2023 participants
“The Remix is a wild journey through story with a stellar cast of guest speakers and wonderful creative provocations. As new ideas became clearer, old ones began to disintegrate. I feel inspired and full!”
“Loved every minute. expands your mind and warms yer heart. was honestly everything I'd hoped it would be and more.”
“Becoming Crew are a magical team of humans, lovingly cultivating the world we need. A beautifully designed and immersive learning journey that stays with you long after the closing ceremony.”
This adventure is for you if
You have a creative practice (writing, making, music, coding, performance, events, holding space, healing, growing, arts, activism, etc - any form of expression)
You’re drawn to the idea of becoming/practicing new stories instead of only theorising them
You’re open to strange encounters with more-than-humans, ancestors, your own edges and others
You want to participate in growing a community of practice-driven change
“We need new stories, but new stories are not entirely left to us.
The invitation as we depart on The Remix is to listen and to be in touch with things that are not yet storied.
To open ourselves to strange encounters.
Maybe then the terms and the words and the sentences for new stories will happen to us.”
Bayo Akomolafe, course guest teacher
Join us in practice-driven change
how does the change you long to see in the world live through you?
This adventure follows the becoming crew experiential (un)learning methodology and convenes around Stories for Life - an offering for storytellers, carriers and shapers seeking to step more intentionally into service to life in these mysterious times.
Stories for Life weaves the work, thinking and ideas of many humans, ancient and modern.
It invites our attention to two key stories in our modern industrial cultural narratives: the story of our relationship with nature and the story of how we measure success.
The project emerged from an open inquiry into the role of stories in helping shape life-sustaining economic systems.
Kickstarted by The Spaceship Earth, Green Economy Coalition and The Wellbeing Economy Alliance.
Stories for Life was featured on the big screens at Glastonbury Festival 2022.
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