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Written by Mathura Mahendren, a collaborator, author, and facilitator on this project; the blog provides rich reflections about our meta-process in which we used the nascent idea of the Mortal Method to fully develop the method itself – kind of as a pilot of the method; the blog also functions as a testimonial of the method’s effectiveness and the ingredients for its success.
The Mortal Method Development Retreat: Gathering Around a Specific, Disputable Purpose
The Mortal Method Development Retreat was a successful gathering in part because it had a specific, unique and disputable purpose. In her book, The Art of Gathering, gathering expert Priya Parker...
The Mortal Method Retreat: The Power of Preparation
Alongside honing a clear purpose for the Mortal Method retreat, another key contributor to its success was in how we prepared for our time together. This preparation, which took several forms,...
The Mortal Method Retreat: Challenging Dominant Norms within Academia
Note to reader: As we name ‘dominant norms within academia’ within this piece, we want to acknowledge the longstanding and continued efforts that have been stewarded within the academy, across...
The Mortal Method Retreat: Taking an Emergent, Responsive Approach
“It is a commitment to a different way of being, and it's an emergent approach, which means you're not going to do a study and have an outcome and then apply it, but it's in the process of doing it...
The Mortal Method Retreat: Contending with Paradox
Engaging with the Mortal Method, and with our mortality in general requires cultivating a relationship with and a tolerance for paradox. One of the dictionary definitions of paradox is “something...
The Mortal Method Retreat: Using Creative and Body-Based Exercises for Meaning-Making
Meaning means what one intends to convey, indicate, refer to. Meaning is significance. Making refers to forming (something) by putting parts together. Making is constructing and creating. In this...
The Mortal Method Retreat: Its Impact On Us
In the ethos of Octavia E. Butler’s quote: “All that we touch we Change, all that we Change, Changes us”, we the practitioners of the Mortal Method, have both shaped and been shaped by the method....
The Mortal Method: Connecting with Mathura & Her Offerings
Dear reader, If you've read this far in this blog post series, you have a sense of how I move in the world - as a facilitator, designer, researcher, and storyteller. If while reading these posts...
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