Samhlíocht
IRISH · TO IMAGINE · TO ENVISION · TO DREAM
A ten-month space for reclaiming and rewilding imagination — somewhere to practise dreaming otherwise, together, in community and in your body.
SOMATIC SUPPORT COLLECTIVE STUDY IMAGINAL PRACTICE
The Invitation
A steady space for imagining otherwise together
Imagine a group of people who already sense what you sense — who don't need you to justify why any of this matters. A space where the longing for something different is not treated as naive, but as necessary.
A place to dream out loud. To vision together. To build the muscle for longing and imagining — rooted in what is, reaching toward what could be.
Not by escaping the present but practising the skills to meet it differently.
Samhlíocht is that space.
Come and imagine with us.
SAMHLÍOCHT creates a steady, supportive space where we can meet the present moment and begin to practise imagining beyond it together.
Join us. Dream. Imagine. Practice. Fall in love with the future
Something in you knows this can't be all there is.
And yet the days fill up — work, responsibilities, the constant stream of news arriving before you've processed the last thing. It becomes harder to stay connected to any real sense of possibility. Harder to feel what’s still alive in you, beyond urgency and reaction.
We are living through witnessing ongoing genocides, climate collapse, and rising authoritarianism. Systems are unravelling. Violence is being normalised. The world is scary. Many of us can imagine the end of the planet more easily than the end of capitalism — and that does something to the body, to the nervous system, on what feels possible to imagine.
Over time, the body can contract. Attention narrows. Imagination thins. It can start to feel like nothing truly new is possible, like the future is inevitable.
But that closing down isn’t the truth and it isn’t neutral.
It’s something we’ve been shaped into.
Imagination isn’t just personal. It’s political. It lives in the body, and it needs space, slowness, and relationship.
It needs to be practised.
This ten-month programme is a space to return to that practice
What it is
Ten months of dreaming, practising, imagining otherwise
Samhlíocht ( the Irish word for imagining) is a ten-month programme dedicated to reclaiming imagination as a shared, political, and embodied practice. Drawing on thinkers like Adrienne Maree Brown, Bell Hooks, Staci Haines, Manchán Magán, and Rob Hopkins, it invites participants to dream beyond collapse and capitalism as a way of practising and shaping the futures we want to live into. Across ten months, we will read, move, listen, write, and notice — trusting ourselves, each other, and our bodies as guides toward new future
This is a slow, steady space to reclaim imagination not as a trait you either have or don't, but as a living skill that can be practised, grown, and returned to. We let imagination come back gently, with eyes open. We dream beyond the limits of what feels possible right now.
And we practise living differently — not waiting for a better moment to arrive.
How we gather
Monthly online session Sundays, 10 am–12 pm — experiential, body-based sessions with breakout conversations, storytelling, reflective writing, and the occasional time travel.
Monthly on Tuesdays, 7.30pm–9 pm — a book club session for deeper reflection on what we're reading together.
One half-day in person in September 2026, 10 am–1 pm.
““The future must enter into you long before it happens.”
SAMHLÍOCHT: Arc of the 10 Months
We begin by noticing how our imagination has been shaped by and how this manifests in our bodies and lives.
From there, we practise imagination as an embodied, collective skill through somatic practices, shared reflection, and study.
Over time, we move into imagining futures together and noticing how the futures we imagine influence how we act in the present.
Over ten months, we move from conditioned limits to collective possibility:
Phase 1: Rooting
We begin by building trust, and asking what shaped our imagination in the first place. Through somatic practice and collective inquiry, we explore the cultural and personal limits that have narrowed our sense of what's possible, and begin to loosen their hold.
Phase 3: Practising
Dreams without practice stay abstract. These months are about falling in love with the future, cultivating curiosity, desire, and the rehearsal of possible worlds.
Phase 2: Dreaming
With roots established, the group opens into possibility. We strengthen our imagination by exploring both/and ways of being. We take imagination into ancestral and non-linear time. And we bring all of that into collective visioning.
Phase 4: Becoming
We close by gathering what has grown. We name what has shifted, create personal and collective manifestos, and build the practices that will carry this work forward long after the programme ends.
The underlying belief of this offering is: you can't imagine well if you don't feel steady or safe enough in your body, you can't dream collectively if you haven't remembered how to dream personally, and dreaming without practice stays abstract.
So the programme moves from the inside out, body, self, relationships, land, future, and from the personal to the collective throughout.
Why Imagination? Why Now?
Cultivating imagination is not about escaping or bypassing the reality of these times. It is about practicing skills for these times. To resist. To build. To create worlds that are not yet here but need to be.
Imagination is the muscle that allows us to envision differently, to see beyond the limits capitalism and fear impose.
If we are to spend time imagining, visioning, dreaming, let it be a practice that equips us—to notice, to act, to care, to rewild our thinking and our hearts.
Now is the time to reclaim our capacity to imagine.
Not as a luxury, but as a necessity.
What Samhlíocht offers
A space where imagination is taken seriously — as a political act, a somatic practice, and a collective skill worth developing together
Monthly sessions that create a gentle rhythm, resourcing and continuity in reclaiming and rewilding our personal and collective imaginations.
A reading and practice journey through thinkers and guides — Adrienne Maree Brown, Bell Hooks, Rob Hopkins, Manchán Magán, and others
Somewhere to bring the grief, the longing, the love and the stubborn belief that something else is possible and have it met
Who This Is For
SAMHLÍOCHT is for those who:
Sense that imagination is political, ecological, ancestral
Learn best through practice, reflection, and conversation
Want depth without heaviness
Are willing to show up imperfectly
You want to think and feel your way into different possibilities, with others
Seek to fall in love with the future before it arrives
This is not for those seeking quick fixes, formulas, or purely therapeutic spaces.
📚 What We’ll Explore
Thought-provoking works from Adrienne Maree Brown, Bell Hooks, Rob Hopkins, Mancha Mangan, and more
Somatic practices to connect body, mind, and imagination
Exercises to tune into land, relationship, and emerging futures
Collective inquiry into care, ecology, intimacy, and reciprocity
“Nature is imagination itself” - William Blake
FAQs
How does it work? Samhlíocht runs over ten months and combines two types of live online gatherings each month: a Sunday session (10am–12pm) for experiential, body-based practices, storytelling, breakout conversations, and reflective writing, and an optional Tuesday book club discussion (7:30–9pm) for deeper collective reflection.
Before each book club session you'll receive guided readings — though there's no right way to engage.
Come as you are.
When are the sessions? What time do we meet? Monthly Sunday sessions run from 10am–12pm, and optional monthly Tuesday book club discussions run from 7:30–9pm, both on Zoom.
Sunday dates are:
May 24th, June 21st, July 19th, August 23rd, September 20th, October 18th, November 22nd, Dec 20th, Jan 24th Feb
Tuesday dates are: June 10th, July 8th, August 5th, September 9th, October 7th, November 4th, December 9th, December 20th, January 13th, February 10th
What is Samhlíocht about? Samhlíocht (the Irish word for imagining) is a ten-month programme dedicated to reclaiming imagination as a shared, political, and embodied practice. Drawing on thinkers like Adrienne Maree Brown, Bell Hooks, and Rob Hopkins, it invites participants to dream beyond collapse and capitalism — not as escape, but as a way of practising and shaping the futures we want to live into.
What do you mean by "somatics"? Somatics means tuning into what's happening in your body.
Throughout the programme, somatic practices — such as grounding, breath awareness, and stillness — are woven in to help you connect body, mind, and imagination. You don't need any prior experience with somatics to participate.
How many people will be in the group? There will be 10-25 the programme is designed where everyone has room to participate, reflect, and show up at their own pace and in their own way.
What if I can't make all the sessions?** All Sunday sessions are recorded and available for the duration of the programme. The monthly book club discussions are also optional, giving you flexibility in how you engage.
Will the sessions be recorded?** Yes. Recordings of the Sunday sessions are included in your registration and accessible for the full duration of the programme.
How much does it cost? Registration is 500 for the full ten-month programme.
A payment plan is also available at 3 monthly payments of $425. Registration closes March 31st, 2026.