What does it mean to gather around "regrowing a living culture"?

I've been using that phrase to talk about the monthly coffee mornings I'm doing in London and I thought it might be worth going back to where I picked the phrase up.

Late in 2023, my friends Dougald and Anna ran a course with that title as part of their "school called HOME" but the phrase had been rolling around in our interactions for a while before that.

Dougald explains some of the territory to be explored in this short video, from which I've taken the following questions.  These are the kinds of things that I'm interested in sharing experience about when we get together on these Fridays.

• What does it mean to speak about a living culture?

• What does doing this say about the ways of living that most of us grew up taking for granted around here lately?

• What are the first moves of regrowing? The simple practices that we can start with in the places we find ourselves in now?

• What are the daring moves that might be called for?  The places it might just be possible to intervene within the big systems of the world, as we have known it, to help create the conditions of possibility for presently unimaginable futures?

• How do we find each other and stay sane and face the depth of the trouble the world is in without letting that just paralyze us 

The next one is next Friday, June 6th.  See you there, if you're near.