The Course

The decolonial vision of the pluriverse—a world in which diverse epistemologies, ontologies, and forms of praxis exist—is inherently relational. Pluriversality therefore offers a critical reorientation to the intersecting ecological, economic, and social crises of our time which, in our view, require relational solutions.


Relationality means interconnection and interdependence. To be in relationship is to be open to being transformed by the co-called other; to be able to learn, integrate, adapt, and recalibrate as new information, perspectives, and ways of sensing emerge. Opening to relationality in this way calls us to resist rigidity and righteousness, and the impulse to cling so tightly to our own view(s) that we end up obscuring, dominating, or shutting out other views. Relational practice invites us to learn to experience complexity, contradiction, and difference without needing to seek control or even total coherence.

A core tension within pluriversal praxis and relational practice in general is the constant push and pull between the self and the collective—between the me and we—and how expansive or contracted that collective becomes. We see how this is often expressed in our need to remain rooted while also being able to grow; our yearning to expand while also being able to contract; and our desire to belong while also being able to bridge. A central question for our work therefore is: How do we stay grounded in our lineages, lands, communities and approaches to liberation, while remaining open to other ways of knowing, being, and doing? How do we become truly relational, pluriversal?



What you will learn

One-worlding is not just an abstract idea—it points to a subtle, pervasive, and persistent habit that seeps into our bodies, beliefs, relationships, and our cultural practices. And yet, there are what Deleuze and Guatari called lines of flight—small fractures, glimpses of something different, something emergent and possible, that offer a way through. We might catch glimpses of these lines of flight when we encounter one another in our mutuality, divinity, and power; when we feel the softening of the grip of a reified sense of who we are or what we think; when we are met with grace, forgiveness, understanding, curiosity; and when we experience even momentary joy, aliveness, “okayness.” The question for us then becomes how do we not just find the cracks, or the lines of flight, but also: how do we practice our way out of these patterns of one-worlding?



Tina Strawn



katie robinson



Brooke Lavelle


Farah Mahesri


Maha El-Sheikh


Katrine Bregengaard


Jorge Salazar





The Arrow Journal and Courage of Care recently released a special issue entitlted, The Power of the Pluriverse. Read the opening essay via our substack here.


This five-week seminar series will build off of the ideas in this special issue, and include embodied reflection and group discussion and practice. We will also take a flipped classroom approach to this seminar, by which we mean we will provide short talks and digestible materials via our online teaching portal for participants to view on their own time. Our seminar time will function as a learning lab, with guided practices, reflection, and time for workshopping issues emerging in our organizations and movements.


Registered attendees will receive a .pdf of this special issue.


*We encourage participants to attend live and join the full series, if possible, to support our container and community. Sessions will be recorded if you cannot make all the sessions and/or if you wish to engage with the seminar as a self-study.

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