A Little Death
Most of us are dying a little, all the time. We just don't talk about it.
Not literally. Metaphorically. A project that's quietly over. A role you've outgrown. A relationship that's already changed but hasn't been named. A version of yourself that's still hanging around, taking up space. A belief you stopped believing months ago but haven't gotten around to burying.
Endings are everywhere. We're just avoiding meeting them. We treat them as failures instead of thresholds. We rush past them, or pretend they aren't happening, or quietly grieve them alone in the middle of a Tuesday. We almost never give them the attention they're actually asking for.
That cost is an opportunity. Unfinished endings have a way of crowding out whatever wants to come next. You can't make room for a new thing while you're still secretly hosting the old one.
That’s the premise of A Little Death, a new elective at Critical Business School, hosted by Danya Shults The voice notes above are from an exchange Danya and I had while building this.
Over four Thursdays in May, we'll move through pleasure, avoidance, ritual, and action. We'll tell stories. We'll make things. We'll sit with what's unfinished.
What if an ending were a climax rather than a collapse?
Why don't we prepare for the end — personally, institutionally, at all?
What's dying in or around you right now, and what might that be making room for?
Some of it will be uncomfortable. A lot of it will feel surprisingly alive. You won't be doing it alone, which turns out to matter more than you'd think.
Electives seek movement. You won't leave fixed. You'll leave a little more open — and a little more ready for whatever's been waiting on the other side of the thing you haven't let go of yet.
Four sessions. May 1, 8, 15, 22. 1 pm ET. 60 minutes. On Zoom. $200 for the whole arc.
If something in you just nodded, that's the part to listen to.
Sign up: https://luma.com/a-little-death
You can listen to Danya and Alma in conversation on episode 7 of the podcast.
Nitzan Hermon