Catch a glimpse of yourself, coming alive
Together with Alex Carabi, I created Yellow in April 2020.
For three years we formed small online groups which gathered every two weeks, for two hours, over a period of five months, to explore and learn together.
What is most distinctive about this was what it was not. There were no learning objectives, no agenda, no titles or professional biographies, and no curriculum.
Instead, Yellow allowed people to build connection, intimacy, and trust, using highly varied stimuli (including art, food, or movement), learning about themselves and their work in the process. We designed it in response to them.
After three years and over two hundred sessions, we exhausted both ourselves and the format, so instead of online courses, and with the pandemic over, we started to run physical events and activities. These retain the open, emergent, largely unstructured approach, and have different themes – like writing, film or process philosophy.
If it sounds very open and ill defined, that’s because it is. It is my firm belief that we need some spaces where we don’t try to determine or control things in advance. I often wonder why we seem to want to know everything that happens before it does – even if you could achieve it (which you can’t) doesn’t that just make life incredibly dull..?.
Thus Yellow runs counter to what we normally – it acts as a ‘counter-space’ where the unimagined or unanticipated can emerge.
If that makes you curious, then you can find out more here.