Episode 8. Jennifer Williams — Holding Space
Ep.8. Jennifer Williams — Holding Space
She has been at the University of Edinburgh for ten years, which she says happened in the blink of an eye.
She told me that adequacy, for her, is about choosing joy as a practice. Not as toxic positivity. As commitment. As the thing you return to, again and again, even when everything around you is pressurised and difficult and collapsing a little.
I participated in a Utopia Lab last year. We breathed. We moved. We picked weeds and painted them together and explored what it means to do nothing. It was, in the middle of a very busy life, a radical act.
Jennifer closes this series not as a conclusion but as an opening. In November, we'll be holding a Utopia Lab together — about dark play, the trickster, and utopia. The conversation continues.
Ps.
I also asked the interviewees for a game if they wanted to share one, here is Jennifer’s:
Feeling Your Heart
Objective: Remember That You’re Alive Right Now
Rules: Don’t worry about anything!
Demo: Stop whatever else you are doing, put your hand on your heart, feel your heart beat. You can take deep breaths. The game is finished whenever you feel calm, or as if waves of joy are washing through your body.