Welcome to Enchantable!
Enchantable is
Public pedagogy (a publication, a resource, a practice)
in the form of essays, love letters, meditations, spells, blessings, & lesson plans
on the interbeing and entanglement of enchantment and disturbance, joy and suffering, reimagining education, peace, magic, dreams, mindfulness, and beyond.
Incantations, blessings, meditations, field notes for an enchantable life.
Welcome, welcome, dear reader!
Welcome enchanted yearnings.
Welcome dreams and wild things
And passion purpose burnings.
Welcome reimaginings
And welcome questions churning
May this be a space for us
To explore our deepest learning.
-From The Year of Enchantment
Is the academy enchantable?
In 2023, I set an intention to get more writing out into the world in a way that was easy for me to do and accessible for people to read. While writing an article about (re)enchanting education, I asked the question, “Is the academy enchantable?” My friend KD noted that this word - enchantable - would make a great name for the Substack I had been talking about starting, and thus Enchantable was born.
I am a professor of peace studies and peace education, mother, witchy mindfulness practitioner, earth lover, poet, and I write about the entanglements of all these themes in my life. I have a PhD in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies, and a masters in Peace Education, which I share to say that I have devoted my life to dilligently studying, practicing with, and living these themes. I offer Enchantable as a form of (what I hope is) accessible, poetic scholarship.
I offer you the re-enchanting education spell1, which captures the heart of Enchantable, and from which Enchantable was born:
May we find enchantment wherever we are
In the clicks of our keyboard,
In the sound of birdsong outside our offices and classrooms.
May our enchantment be a radical act
Of reclaiming attention
Of dwelling in the mundane magic of being alive on this precious planet
Of remembering other ways of knowing
Of reaching beyond what we know
Towards wonder, curiosity, awe.
May we feel enchantment in our bodies
A gentle smile on the lips
Tingling, electric
May enchantment remind us of the deep wisdom communicated by our bodies in each moment.
May our enchantment be an act of liberation
Of institutional transformation
May it be a pathway towards composting stuck destructive energy
Towards life-affirming and life-generating ways of being, knowing, and living.
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Written for and originially published in the Peace Chronicle.
