The Mbari Practice:

1. Build, knowing we are building ruins: Create forms of care that honour transience rather than promise stability, so that our offerings remain humble, alive, and responsive to the ever-changing conditions of the world.

2. Make sanctuary with cracks: Dwell with rupture as a site of possibility instead of a flaw to be repaired, so that healing becomes an act of witnessing rather than fixing - an invitation to gather around what aches.

3. Practice obliquity: Move sideways when progress deepens the groove of harm, so that new patterns of aliveness can emerge beyond the narrow logic of improvement or control.

4. Cultivate weird fidelities: Stay loyal to what cannot be commodified or healed away: the grief, the mystery, the monstrous, the impossible, so that we remember our belonging to what exceeds understanding, and find wonder in the places where meaning unravels.

Plus, You'll Get These Amazing Bonuses...

1. VIDEO Keynote Interview Between Báyò & Willow Defebaugh

2. VIDEO A New Theory of the Self with Indy Johar

3. Podcast Episode - Báyò Akómoláfé on Cracks, Tricksters, and Dancing Sideways with Collapse

4. ESSAY - Sanctuary is Not a Place

5. ESSAY - How to Be Availabe Now: Sidenotes from the Para-Pragmatic