To open a narrative that has become too tight requires techniques, practices… rituals, even. Sometimes you even throw it in the fire. For us, the unstitching part takes the techniques we know to erase the tracks of time, to aerate what has become sedimented, and to cast on new stitches.

In educational theory, this kind of shared, experiential process is often described as a community of practice: a group bound by shared curiosity, reflection, and embodied participation. Over time, that continuity creates not just learning, but belonging — a place where the community itself becomes the teacher.

Maybe it looks like this— yoga in living rooms, vegetables shared between friends, warmth, community, and practices that connect. Maybe it’s in the small revelations of finding your knee in your armpit, or your fingers woven behind your head…