Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Democratizing Work Primer
In this introductory workshop, GWI provides a window into the kinds of relational shifts that facilitate a culture of shared leadership. We touch on the tools, policies and practices that support democratic decision making, and offer a glimpse into how they can be put into action. You will emerge with a sense of how to start taking steps towards sharing power in your organization or working group.
Continue reading“Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement” with Fern Tiger
How can communities ensure that their voices genuinely shape the policies and decisions that impact their lives, their neighborhoods, their cities?
While participation is central to democratic ideals, meaningful influence in government, education, nonprofit, and especially corporate decision-making remains rare. Too often, “community engagement” is reduced to public relations—accessible primarily to those with time, access, and insider fluency.
This talk introduces Creative Instigation: an approach to authentic engagement that blends the field methods of documentarians and ethnographers, the strategic rigor of community organizers, the contextual depth of qualitative research and journalism, and the grounded imagination of socially engaged artists. The goal is not performative participation—but durable institutional and social change.
Drawing on complex, multi-year projects spanning rural Maui County, metropolitan Phoenix, activist communities in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the corporate landscape of a global biotech firm, Fern Tiger will describe creative efforts to rebalance power and confront social, economic, and political inequities.
At its strongest, Creative Instigation does more than inform decision-makers. It elevates historically marginalized voices, reshapes narratives, and catalyzes solutions rooted in lived experience. In a time of eroding trust in institutions and widening inequality, authentic engagement is not optional—it is foundational to democracy itself.
About Fern Tiger
Fern Tiger is the founder and creative director of Fern Tiger Associates (FTA), based in Oakland, California. The firm is grounded in the belief that “with reflective strategy and innovative design, positive and constructive social change is not only possible—it is inevitable.”
Trained in art and media, with advanced study in human–environment relations, and art and cognition, Fern Tiger built a transdisciplinary approach to strategy and research—one that bridges creative inquiry with policy and systems thinking. Her work has led to professorships in diverse departments from art to public policy and urban studies; she has served on the faculties of Pennsylvania State University, Washington University in St. Louis, Arizona State University, and the University of Washington Tacoma. Fern has published and lectured broadly on topics related to the nonprofit sector, authentic community engagement, and the dynamic intersections of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. www.ferntiger.com
This event is offered in partnership Radio Kingston & Rough Draft Bar & Books
In Conversation with Báyò Akómoláfé
Join us as we welcome Báyò Akómoláfé to the GWI Greenhouse for an author talk. A posthumanist polymath and “trans-public” intellectual, Báyò Akómoláfé has produced a vast body of work that presents a startling picture of the world in perpetual process and radical relation. Through an ever-growing archive of books, articles, interviews, social media posts, workshops, and rituals, Akómoláfé seeks to interrogate the fundamental assumptions and epistemological gaps in our current culture in crisis.
You can experience more by visiting Dancing With Mountains where Bayo offers an invitation to inhabit the cracks where the world is still being made.
Listen to The Good Work Hour episode from July 2024, Rethinking Our Relationship to Reality with Bayo Akomolafe
Báyò’s new book Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader presents a poetically arranged selection of Akómoláfé’s short-form writings, which draw inspiration from Édouard Glissant; Gilles Deleuze; Gregory Bateson; Octavia Butler; Fernand Deligny; Chinua Achebe; the adventures of Esu, the Yoruba monster-trickster and crossroads figure; and more. A tightly curated composition of aphorisms, anti-epiphanies, prose poems, and philosophical fragments, Selah invites readers into the thicket of Akómoláfé’s thought, weaving together threads of his most critically creative concepts—such as ontofugitivity, ecocognitive assemblage theory, parapolitics, and postactivism. Taking its title from an enigmatic Hebrew word that appears throughout the Book of Psalms—one that suggests a moment of ecstatic exclamation or musical notation—Selah is a book that can be read in an hour or studied for years, kept by your bedside or passed among friends like an open secret. For those already swimming in the depths of Akómoláfé’s language, as well as those encountering his dynamic body of work for the first time, Selah offers an accessible and ecstatic entry into a visionary thinker’s signature thought and poetics.
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]
Qigong & Tai Chi Class
Qigong and Tai Chi for health and vitality! Learn and practice the gentle, meditative art of Qigong–a practice that has ancient Taoist roots, but is just as vital now, with our hectic, computer based lifestyles. We will cover a basic morning wake-up routine, the Eight Brocades, Tai Chi (Yang Style Short Form), meditation, and whatever strikes the groups fancy! This GWI community class is free and open to the public. All experience levels welcome; no commitment necessary. Please email to confirm (as classes are occasionally cancelled) – [email protected]