16/04/2026
Alive Wire Academy is officially launched and I am super excited to announce that the Alive Wire Wisdom Circle is back!
We will be gathering on the LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH. The first circle is this month. Yes April. In a couple of weeks! Please diarise Sunday 26 April 6.00 pm (SAST) and don't forget to register if you haven't already so that you can receive the Zoom link.
Something happened last Sunday that I'm still sitting with. Over 30 of us gathered for the Alive Wire Academy Launch and Wisdom Party.
The theme for the evening was the wisdom of celebration. We explored this wisdom theme from a number of perspectives: relational, foundational, actual, cultural and counter-cultural.
What unfolded through the questions, in the sharing, in the witnessing and the acknowledging, reminded me exactly why I do this work.
What we did, together, was see how celebration, at it's core, is a kind of marking, noting or highlighting. Celebration happens when we take the time in the busyness of our ordinary lives to say: “Something happened that mattered, and we are going to acknowledge that it matters, together, before we move on.”
When we celebrate we mark a moment in time as significant. And without this, life becomes a blur of activity with little chance to make meaning or digest (integrate) experience.
When something is acknowledged, and witnessed, and digested, it becomes real.
Celebration requires us to stop, pause, reflect, slow down and to look back into order to look forward. The problem is - pausing isn't productive. In our largely Western culture, time paused is time wasted. So we say, "I'll celebrate when the work is done." But the work is rarely done. The finish line keeps moving and we keep moving on to the next thing.
This means we miss out on the chance to embed learning, make meaning, create shared memories and communal coherence, to re-synchronise, bond and reinforce belonging.
We miss the chance to stop and say: “This happened. This mattered. I am changed. We are here. We made it through.”
Remember, the gold is for sharing.
True celebration says: “I am enough. This was enough. This moment is complete." This then closes the open tabs and allows for completion and integration, new energy and movement.
We examined what was beneath the noise and the tinsel. What celebration does when it's real. And what it costs us when it's absent or hollow or rushed past. We didn't shy away from the elephant in the room and talked openly about the very real reluctance to celebrate during dark times and the discernment required to hold the tension between joy and sorrow.
One woman at the launch spoke of returning her father's ashes to Russia after two years of effort and how this was something she had never properly marked. Then there was a PhD completed but never truly witnessed. A life begun again after divorce. A community-hour led through pain and received without pity.
I told my own story. Imperfectly. Honestly. I crossed a threshold - right there, in that room, witnessed by all who attended.
Now the Wisdom Circle is back. Woo Hoo!!
The first one is this Sunday, 26 April.
Come if you can. Bring someone if you like. The more the merrier.
→ Sign up and details here:
https://alivewireacademy.com/wisdom-circle/
See you Sunday. 🌀
Blessings and love,
Gwendolen
Courses and Coaching in Spiritual Maturity, Soul Growth and Self-Leadership Alive Wire Academy is home to a series of transformational courses and coaching programs designed to help you grow and evolve. Alive WireWisdom Circle A free monthly gathering dedicated to cultivating clarity and coherence,....
