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The Art of Unravelling
A seasonal practice of rewilding, mourning and emergence
The Seasons

Season of Drifting

Learning to move with the tide

The second season in The Art of Unravelling moves to the edges: the places where one thing meets another, where land dissolves into sea, where old certainties give way to what has not yet found its shape. Drifting is not passivity. It is an active stance that asks us to stay open, to sense what is emerging before it has language, and to notice what arises once we stop forcing forward motion.

Thirteen posts carry the season in the order they were written, across three blocks of four weeks: personal drifting, social drifting, and organisational drifting, each widening the practice from the self outward.

In plain terms

What is the Season of Drifting?
The second of four seasons in The Art of Unravelling, a practice of moving with the tide rather than against it. It runs across three blocks of four weeks, widening the practice of sensing and staying open from a personal scale to a social one, then to an organisational one.
Do the thirteen posts need to be read in order?
No fixed order is required. The list below sets out the order the posts were written in, opening with the welcome to the season and closing with the pile that gathers the whole twelve weeks together.
Is drifting the same as being lost?
No. Drifting is deeply attuned rather than directionless. It asks for an ability to sense the subtle, relational and emergent, and to trust what is moving before it can be named or measured.