Tinkering in the Spirit is a spiritual learning design committed to creating spaces for spiritual people to increase their equitable practices by joyously reflecting, critiquing, learning, and transforming. Tinkering in the Spirit implements learning opportunities for spiritual people to name the ways in which they operate in inequitable practices and then seek to dialogue, create, and struggle with strategies to do less harm to other entities. Tinkering in the Spirit is a design of love, community, and revision that centers the unknown, unfinishedness, and co-creation.

Tinkering builds on a foundation of play, focus, purpose, and desire. People tinker because they want knowledge and change. Tinkering is a form of traveling and learning with different entities, amongst diverse ways of knowing, and through different spaces. Tinkering is a way of being, a way of utilizing energy to answer a call that has brought you face-to-face with wonder and a yearning for exploration because you realize there is more to know, do, and be.

Tinkering in the spirit is a spiritual practice that draws upon the ideas that we can and should be evolving as spiritual entities. Tinkering in the spirit requires the acknowledgment that transformation is possible, craved, and being spoken into existence. Tinkering in the spirit must be both an individual and collective act of honesty, integrity, risk, and vulnerability. Tinkering in the spirit requires data creation, data collection, data exposure, data analysis, data implications, and ultimately changes in practice.

• Three hours of learning explorations that center the intersections of spirituality and in/equities

• Individual and collective work

• Content related pre-work

• Opportunities to create and work with various materials in different modes, including movement, visuals, and oral

• Anchored in questioning and revisionist thinking