Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez: Fungal Teachings

We spent an afternoon with Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez to uncover the wisdom of fungi and how to incorporate them into our daily lives. Through interactive activities prompted by the Let’s Become Fungal! Oracle Cards, we delved into the world of fungi and discovered how these organisms can teach us about symbiotic relationships, cyclical calendars, and more. Each card offers insights, questions, meditations, and exercises to help us connect with these unmissable agents in our shared ecosystem. 

The intimate workshop, led by Yasmine, included three exercises drawn from the oracle cards. By examining mycelium as a model for collaboration, the workshop offered a playful approach to exploring profound questions and lessons for social and environmental justice. We did exercises on how to move through different notions of time, on borrowing language from the world of mycology, how to collaborate across borders, species, communities and disciplines and many other fungi-inspired topics.

Please visit this page for A Mycelial Residency: Reading List, curated by Yasmine.

We will be continuing to collaborate with Yasmine and these topics over the coming years, deepening our understanding of the fungal world. We look forward to seeing you at future programs to explore the interconnectedness of ecological systems into creative practices and everyday life.