An inquiry might begin with a provocative question, a riddle, or an idea that unsettles something we thought we knew. It could draw on contemporary research or longstanding wisdom, introduced by a scholar, facilitator, practitioner, or Fellow. These perspectives can challenge a familiar belief or change how you understand an experience.

Learn through your senses, emotions, movement, and interaction with others and the world around you. Artists and practitioners introduce experiences that take you beyond thinking and talking. You might notice a physical response, trust an intuition, or recognize something you couldn’t reach through explanation alone.

Your everyday life becomes a place to experiment. Try paying attention differently, changing a habit, or approaching a difficult conversation in another way. Experiments can be small or significant. You have your monthly partner and the group alongside you as you try, reflect, and adjust. Difficult experiences give you something to learn from, too. Sharing a challenge with the group can help another Fellow recognize something in their own life or see a different way forward.

Come together to reflect on experiences from gatherings and daily life. Fellows and facilitators listen, ask questions, and challenge explanations that come too easily. You have time to work through what felt difficult, hear how others experienced things, and make connections across the weeks. What you learn together informs what you try next.

On the last Sunday of each month, reflect on what you’ve experienced and what you want to explore or express further. Give it a form: perhaps a poem, a symbol, a useful tool, or a ritual you want to bring into your life or the Fellowship.

An Offering can be individual or shared, physical or experiential. It can remain within the Fellowship. The practice helps you make the experience your own and prepares you to draw on the year’s work for the culminating public event.