Highlands Center for Natural History: Becoming Wild – Animating the Audacity of the Human Heart

In this 3 part series, Will Duncan explores the relationship between wildness and civility and the idea of re-wilding our lives. Through stories, reflections on various authors, poets, philosophers, religious writers, and mythology we will explore what it means to rekindle one’s life into a deeper and more vibrant intimacy with the world.

Mondays October 23rd, November 13th, & December 11th

5:30pm – 7:00pm

Donations welcome

**1st Talk: Heartbreak In The Belly of the Whale – In this first talk we look at the relationship between grief and joy. Looking at myths of the underworld, Christian and Hindu stories as well as the work of Dante, T.S. Elliot, Brene Brown, and the poet John Keats idea of ‘Negative Capability’, we explore how wildness and the capacity to feel beauty relates to being able to feel loss and grieve potently.