"A conversation more than a company."
Welcome to the Crafting Gentleness website. Crafting Gentleness is an organisation based in Derry/Londonderry in Northern Ireland, established in 2010. We're very excited about what this year has in store. Most Crafting Gentleness activities are now organised through Hedgeschool21. We hope that you'll enjoy looking around the site. There's plenty to browse through - take a look at the hope archive, a collection of internet links to sites we enjoy; read the blog; browse through our resources page of reading lists and simple strategies for thinking about gentleness in your life; or delve into some of the research that supports the site. Whatever your interests, I hope that you'll find something here that opens a door to something new, interesting, or helpful.
The notion of crafting
is often associated with activities like pottery, knitting, woodwork,
quiltmaking and so on. Engaging in these sorts of crafting can be a great way
to remind ourselves that we can make a difference, to remind ourselves that we
can learn to listen more carefully to how we make the differences that we make.
Crafting materials can be a way to align ourselves to think more in terms of
the consequences and effects of what we do, to consider that helpfulness and
appropriateness might be friendlier values to live by than rigid rules of right
and wrong. By sculpting, shaping, moulding, guiding, building, and by listening
and responding as we go, we can become more aware of how we make a difference.
Crafting can be a reclamation of the power of life.
The four pillars of
Crafting Gentleness are:
- Uncertainty
- Discernment
- Self-Care and Resilience
- Power and Politics
Crafting Gentleness,
11 Castle St,
Derry/Londonderry,
Northern Ireland.
BT48 6HQ