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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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