REGROWING A LIVING CULTURE
A BIT MORE PRACTICE
A BIT MORE PRACTICE
A five-week online series with Dougald Hine & Anna Björkman
STARTS 21 & 22 may 2026
THURSDAY group • 20.15 ceSt (CHECK YOUR TIMEZONE)
FRIDAY group • 10.15 CEST (CHECK YOUR TIMEZONE)
Sliding scale pricing options from $100 to $300. Trust-based scholarships also available.
Join us for a five-week journey into the work of regrowing a living culture, hosted by Anna Björkman and Dougald Hine, co-founders of a school called HOME.
Thursday group
Friday group
“I arrived at the previous iteration of Dougald’s course one week late and not really sure what I was getting into. It was everything that all my years of formal education hadn’t been – that is, I really learned and unlearned things, had fun and was excited leading up to each session. It impacted me far more than I could have imagined when I first enrolled. I heartily recommend joining.”
— Jeremy, Australia
What we practice forms us
For six years now, Anna and I have been making these invitations. They are addressed to anyone who is drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture, rebuilding the muscles of human relationship and spiritual strength, starting from the places where we find ourselves. This spring, the invitation is to gather around the practices these times are calling for.
Each week, we’ll bring stories and practices worth sharing. Clues for how to steady yourself and offer steadiness to others, to find others around you and start building capacity, to make connections with those further afield. Along with the invitation to share from your own practice.
There’s no magic formula here, but we can bring the experience of the projects we’ve been part of creating – and what we’ve learned from walking alongside participants we met through earlier series, as they put what we’ve talked about together into practice.
The format of the sessions allows for more than one way of taking part. You can choose to lean in and start making connections and finding possibilities for collaboration, or you can sit back and follow along quietly and listen for where all of this might connect to the questions you are carrying.
The culture into which most of us were born lacks categories for the kind of work we do at a school like this: there’s no set of deliverables, no curriculum outline. But over time, I’ve seen people put words to their intuitions, find the courage to speak and to act, and step further into the work that is theirs to do, as a consequence of being part of these series. So if the invitation speaks to you, then Anna and I will look forward to having you with us when this all gets underway in May.
Dougald Hine
Sliding scale pricing options from $100 to $300. Trust-based scholarships also available.
What participants in earlier series say
“Dougald is an artist of the liminal. His journey has led him to extraordinary places, people and perspectives. He will take you through mythic territory, drawing on stories and symbols from his life, to help you find your own. A deeply nourishing experience that will leave you enriched and sensitised to the mythic in your own journey.”
PHOEBE TICKELL
Founder of moral imaginations
“When I embarked on Homeward Bound, I was at a personal and professional crossroads. I hadn’t expected such an equally philosophical and practical experience – and I never would have guessed where home actually was, or been able to make my way there. But I’m glad I did, for the world looks very different now and it’s a journey I don’t think I’ll ever forget.”
SAM CONNIFF
AUTHOR OF BE MORE PIRATE & THE UNCERTAINTY TOOLKIT
“It was like we were all sketching in charcoal every week, making things bolder, or darker, rubbing them out and redrawing them, until, by the last session, some image emerged from all our overlapping lines. Many of us went off and began to draw parts of our lives differently using the shapes we found together. Forms we could never have imagined on our own.”
CAROLINE ROSS
Artist & teacher
How this series will work
Each week, we will meet over Zoom for a 75-minute teaching session.
There are two groups: one that meets on a Thursday evening (Swedish time), starting on 21 May, and the other on a Friday lunchtime, starting on 22 May.
The teaching session opens with a few minutes to land together as a group. Then Dougald will give a short talk introducing the week’s theme.
The second half of the teaching session is a time for questions and reflections.
At the end of each session, following a short break, we invite you to stick around for the afterparty. This is a chance to hang out and meet each other in a more informal setting.
A video of the teaching session will be shared within a day or two, and these will be available for participants to view for six months after the series.
All participants receive an invitation to our Mighty Networks platform, where these recordings are shared, along with notes from each session. This is also a space for you to share stories, make connections and follow up on conversations that began during the sessions.
At the end of the series, you are invited to join us as part of the Long Table, an ongoing community whose members met through earlier series and gather regularly on Zoom and, increasingly, in the flesh.
FAQs
I’m keen to take part, but I can’t make it to all the sessions.
It’s quite common for some participants to miss one or more of the live sessions during a series, and we’ve found that this works fine, both for the participant and the group as a whole. Recordings are sent out within a day or two of the session, so there’s a chance to catch up before the following week. Our general advice is, as long as you can make it to the majority of the sessions in the series, go ahead and book a place. Though we’ve had the occasional participant who has audited a whole series through the recordings without being able to join us live, so it’s up to you!
Can I attend some Thursday and some Friday sessions?
Yes, if your schedule means that it works best to attend on Thursdays some weeks and Fridays in other weeks, we can arrange this. When registering for the series, select the group you intend to join for the opening session. Then send us an email letting us know, and we will make sure you get the links for both sets of calls.
Other questions? Send us an email at info@aschoolcalledhome.org
Dougald Hine is author of At Work in the Ruins and a founder of a series of organisations, including the Dark Mountain Project and Spacemakers.
Anna Björkman has worked with cultural foundations around Europe, set up children’s libraries across the Middle East and advised leaders in local government in Sweden.
Together with Alfie (aged 10), we are creating a school called HOME, based in the old shoe shop in Östervåla.