Action Inquiries

At the Slow Work Garden, we have a deep and abiding trust that there are more compassionate, kind and loving ways to live and work – and that as a collection of humans, we have the creative capacity to draw these ways into the fabric of the everyday. One of the ways we do this is by hosting action inquiries – peer learning journeys where we come together with others to co-explore and live into big questions as guides for living, moving and feeling in the world. Questions like, ‘What if we learnt to slow down together?’, ‘What if we learnt to organise cyclically?’, and ‘What if we learnt to grieve together?’

We see this work as deep, collective practice – and we are inviting you into practice with us with our two latest action inquiries running from January/February and into Spring 2025:

Action Inquiry: Slowing down together

In a new collaboration with Maria Dorthea Skov, host of the recent Living The Good Life Huddle, we’ll be exploring the questions: What if we learnt to slow down together?

We see slowing down and cyclicality as essential for change and transformation, and we’re interested in exploring slowing down as an enabler of creativity and collective imagination. Starting in January 2025, this journey is for people who are interested in building a ‘slowing down practice’, and to stay with the trouble of slowing down in a world focused on speed – especially when there is great urgency and strength of purpose in the work to be done.

Action Inquiry: Grieving together

After the success of our recent inquiry into grief, we’re coming together again with collective imagination host and grief practitioner Christina Watson to explore the question: What if we learnt to grieve together?

We see grieving together as an essential part of what it means to live and work in these times, and we’re interested in exploring grief and grieving as creative practice. Starting in March 2025, this journey is for people who are drawn to exploring the expansiveness of grief, what it means to grieve together as a practice, and the potential of grief as a portal for imagining and world building.