Connection for a Different Way of Learning/Knowing

Rooted in Relationship, Received through Reverence

As I deepen in connection with small-scale visionaries like Tebogo and Jenny, I find myself entering into a way of learning that is entirely different from anything I experienced in the dominant systems I was raised in. There are no curricula, no modules, no steps to master. There are no credentials. There is no performance.

Instead, there is presence.
There is trust.
There is voicenote and laughter.
There is the rustle of dry grass in the wind, the scent of wild flowers, the sunlit stillness of the landscape.
There is intimacy with the more-than-human world that I’m not being told about—I’m being invited into.

This way of learning is not fact-based or extractive. It is whole-sensory. It is energetic. It is emotional, embodied, and relational. It arrives in tone, in rhythm, in pause. It emerges through a field of mutual respect and reverence that we’ve cultivated together—not with any plan or intention—but through the simple commitment to show up as we are, without judgment or expectation.

In this space, knowledge is not transferred. It is imbued.
It is not consumed. It is received.
It does not live on paper. It lives in the body, the heart, the breath.

This kind of learning is not a method. It is a way of being with.
It cannot be scaled, but it can be felt.
And once felt, it cannot be forgotten.

It is relational transmission.
It is mutual becoming.
It is the reweaving of ways that were never meant to be torn apart.