Inviting Abundance is a collection of wellness and educational services for people seeking to engage with the complexity of life. My wife, Joanne Zerdy, and I started this initiative in the Fall of 2017. One of my long range goals is to establish work both inside and outside of academia, and Inviting Abundance marks the first concerted effort to establish the "outside" component.
From our website: Do you want more in life? Not more quantity (stuff) but more quality? More engagement with the complexity of the natural and social worlds? More creative outlets to process significant life events? More fulfillment in your work and your interactions with others? Inviting Abundance devotes its energy to promoting this “more”!
Through our three primary channels of Grief Work, Learning, and Reiki, we build intimate relationships with our clients through the construction of personalized healing or learning plans and practical strategies for cultivating your personal growth, intellect, and intuition.
The destination of all of these channels is the same: a more empowered, focused, energized, creative, and engaged You!
We bring our backgrounds as grieving parents, PhD researchers, performing artists, university teachers, travellers, healers, published authors and editors, and international speakers to this work. When you join forces with us, your reservoir of resources increases 100 fold.
Work with us Online -- through video chats and email -- or In Person at our Asheville, NC office!
From our website: Do you want more in life? Not more quantity (stuff) but more quality? More engagement with the complexity of the natural and social worlds? More creative outlets to process significant life events? More fulfillment in your work and your interactions with others? Inviting Abundance devotes its energy to promoting this “more”!
Through our three primary channels of Grief Work, Learning, and Reiki, we build intimate relationships with our clients through the construction of personalized healing or learning plans and practical strategies for cultivating your personal growth, intellect, and intuition.
The destination of all of these channels is the same: a more empowered, focused, energized, creative, and engaged You!
We bring our backgrounds as grieving parents, PhD researchers, performing artists, university teachers, travellers, healers, published authors and editors, and international speakers to this work. When you join forces with us, your reservoir of resources increases 100 fold.
Work with us Online -- through video chats and email -- or In Person at our Asheville, NC office!
To Grieve
What does it mean to grieve rightly? Might there be such a thing as an ethics of grief, a practice of turning my full attention to the specificity of each loss so as to carry such loss in me and to become, in the words of Gilles Deleuze, worthy of what has happened to me? To Grieve answers these questions through the author’s personal and philosophical ruminations following the sudden deaths of his son, father, step-father, friend, grandmother, and cat. Attending specifically to the ways in which grief-space appears, grief-time imposes itself, and grief-language bends itself around the emotional acuity of the wound, this long-form essay nestles up against the unnamable and pauses to measure its heft. With a Foreword by Matthew Goulish.
What this is |
After experiencing the sudden deaths of my father and my son in a span of less than year, I put my thoughts in writing in order to offer instructions to my future self. These instructions offer a method for opening through grief. Thanks to Ugly Duckling Presse, the work is now available as a chapbook. Purchase a copy from Ugly Duckling Presse.
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Reviews
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"Who Can Read It," an interview with Will Daddario and Kate Jaeger.
"The Practice of Grief: An Interview with Will Daddario,” conducted by Zach Savich" "Ever a son and a father: To Grieve by Will Daddario," by roughghosts (J.M. Schreiber) |
Online Classes
Write Brightly
Over the course of six modules, this self-paced course helps academics dynamize and enliven their writing through exercises and video lectures designed to cover the major parts of academic writing. In addition to in-depth treatments of description, analysis, theorization, the use of secondary sources, and style, Write Brightly introduces students to many different types of artistic expression, academic argumentation, and modes of verbal expression.
Read on for more details, watch this short video (to the right), or click here to Register for the class hosted on Udemy Online Learning. Promotional coupons available for a limited time! Email me ([email protected]) and tell me a bit about yourself and why you’d like a discount on the course, or contact Inviting Abundance on Facebook.
Over the course of six modules, this self-paced course helps academics dynamize and enliven their writing through exercises and video lectures designed to cover the major parts of academic writing. In addition to in-depth treatments of description, analysis, theorization, the use of secondary sources, and style, Write Brightly introduces students to many different types of artistic expression, academic argumentation, and modes of verbal expression.
Read on for more details, watch this short video (to the right), or click here to Register for the class hosted on Udemy Online Learning. Promotional coupons available for a limited time! Email me ([email protected]) and tell me a bit about yourself and why you’d like a discount on the course, or contact Inviting Abundance on Facebook.
Race & Philosophy
Built upon nineteen interviews conducted by philosopher George Yancy in the New York Times, this course introduces students to contemporary conversations about race and philosophy. Labeled a dangerous professor by white supremacists for his provocative and direct speech, Yancy has continually pushed the scope of philosophical dialogue beyond the academy and into the streets and lives of individuals. These interviews in particular utilize the public forum of the newspaper as the site of interrogation, thereby urging the reading public to increase their awareness of the philosophical problems that have revealed themselves in the wake of Michael Brown’s murder and the subsequent political unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and the rest of the United States.
This class challenges students to transform themselves from casual readers of short, freely available texts into engaged critics. Each of the interviews is approximately nine pages long and none of them contains any thorough elaboration of dense philosophical ideas. Indeed, the challenge posed by the texts is their brevity. As such, students will learn to treat the interviews as launching pads into more nuanced forms of inquiry. Weekly video lectures outline strategies for reading and engaging with the texts and (optional) assignments help students create rigorous note and creative notes. The class is ideal for people who have always wanted to understand the deep issues surrounding racial identity formation, white supremacy, the performance of blackness, and the rhetoric of inflammatory speech but who have been put off by the language of academic philosophy.
Built upon nineteen interviews conducted by philosopher George Yancy in the New York Times, this course introduces students to contemporary conversations about race and philosophy. Labeled a dangerous professor by white supremacists for his provocative and direct speech, Yancy has continually pushed the scope of philosophical dialogue beyond the academy and into the streets and lives of individuals. These interviews in particular utilize the public forum of the newspaper as the site of interrogation, thereby urging the reading public to increase their awareness of the philosophical problems that have revealed themselves in the wake of Michael Brown’s murder and the subsequent political unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and the rest of the United States.
This class challenges students to transform themselves from casual readers of short, freely available texts into engaged critics. Each of the interviews is approximately nine pages long and none of them contains any thorough elaboration of dense philosophical ideas. Indeed, the challenge posed by the texts is their brevity. As such, students will learn to treat the interviews as launching pads into more nuanced forms of inquiry. Weekly video lectures outline strategies for reading and engaging with the texts and (optional) assignments help students create rigorous note and creative notes. The class is ideal for people who have always wanted to understand the deep issues surrounding racial identity formation, white supremacy, the performance of blackness, and the rhetoric of inflammatory speech but who have been put off by the language of academic philosophy.
Grief Mapping
Designed by Joanne Zerdy, PhD (my wife and partner at Inviting Abundance)
I have designed this class for individuals looking for Online Resources and Activities to help them to Explore and Process their Grief. No matter the cause for the grief or how long ago events occurred, actively grieving can lead to body-mind-spirit integration and healing. I believe that some of this work can be creative and, at times, even fun.
Why am I facilitating this course? As a grieving parent with first-hand experience of the hard work of grieving/healing, a former university professor committed to education and the arts, and a researcher and writer who has published essays (including one that considered a map as a performing object), I have a unique perspective and blend of experiences to bring to this course and to my work with you. Given the difficult times in which we live, I believe that the work of active grieving is perhaps more important than ever. By healing ourselves, we strengthen our ability to support and care for others.
Watch the video!
Designed by Joanne Zerdy, PhD (my wife and partner at Inviting Abundance)
I have designed this class for individuals looking for Online Resources and Activities to help them to Explore and Process their Grief. No matter the cause for the grief or how long ago events occurred, actively grieving can lead to body-mind-spirit integration and healing. I believe that some of this work can be creative and, at times, even fun.
Why am I facilitating this course? As a grieving parent with first-hand experience of the hard work of grieving/healing, a former university professor committed to education and the arts, and a researcher and writer who has published essays (including one that considered a map as a performing object), I have a unique perspective and blend of experiences to bring to this course and to my work with you. Given the difficult times in which we live, I believe that the work of active grieving is perhaps more important than ever. By healing ourselves, we strengthen our ability to support and care for others.
Watch the video!
