A regenerative space for a complex world
NEXT EVENT: 3D YELLOW 2024 IN SPAIN. APPLY TO JOIN.
A space that allows you to learn, play, connect, create, rest, explore … and be.
What is Yellow?
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How it works
In-person events
In the company of like-hearted people
Discovering about yourself and each other
Doing things you otherwise wouldn’t
With no obligation
…designed in response to what emerges.
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What we do
Work and play with the body
Use objects, books, art as stimulus
Respond to guests from a wide range of fields (writers, artists, technologists)
Make things (messy art, constellations, food)
…and much more, all digested through conversation.
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Where it fits
A counterspace to the rest of life
An oasis from the normal pressures
A home for thoughts that don’t fit anywhere else
A place to address questions you didn’t know you had
…amongst people you can happily sit in silence and do nothing with.
This, not that.
Responsive, not programmatic.
Conversational, not presentational.
A creative space, not a curriculum.
Oblique, not direct.
Embodied, not detached.
Inviting relationships, not brief encounters.
Who is Yellow for?
Yellow is for curious people.
Who look outside their own field.
Who like to play with ideas and possibilities.
Who delight in the company of other people that ask questions.
With an appetite to learn from anything and everything.
Who like to inquire, probe, challenge, wonder.
Who ask questions many people don’t.
They might be anything – startup owners, diplomats, doctors, CEOs, leaders in a company of one, social entrepreneurs, technologists, investors and so on.
Yellow is a frame of mind,
not a position or a profession.
What does Yellow feel like?
“Oysters and mashed potatoes”
said one participant.
It wasn’t what we expected to hear.
But upon further explanation, it captured it beautifully.
Next event: 3D Yellow
The next open event is 3D Yellow held outside of Avila, Spain in June 2024.
Format: The agenda consists of mealtimes. Everything else we create as we go together. There will be opportunities for physical, artistic, embodied, creative, and cognitive activities, depending on peoples' interests and hunger. Everyone is invited to contribute ideas, but no one is required to do anything.
People: People who have taken part in Yellow previously as well as new faces.
Place: Dehesa de la Serna outside of Avila, Spain
Dates: 26-30 June, 2024
If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to talk to you.
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Yellow is an approach to learning live and living learning.
We are learning as we go, and sharing what we learn with the world.
Brought to you by
Robert Poynton. I design and facilitate learning experiences - like ‘The Oxford Praxis Forum Reading Retreats' or ‘The Creative Tapas Experience'. My work with complexity and improvisation means I believe in playing around with things (and people) rather than trying to control them. The arenas I play around in include The Do Lectures, Schumacher College, as well as Oxford University and my own back yard – including Dehesa de La Serna, a family farm where my wife produces organic beef and which I use for events of ‘The Pause Project’. I have written three books – ‘Everything’s an Offer’, ‘Do Improvise’ and ‘Do Pause’.
Alexander Carabi. I support human development journeys. My work spans coaching, trauma work, philosophy, and leadership development. In my coaching and therapy work I support leaders, founders, and entrepreneurs on their inner and outer journeys in work and life. I’m a host and facilitator of coaching trainings at Coaches Rising. I write about what it means to be human, how systems work (or don’t), and how we learn and develop. I’m the author of the book On Relationality: Lessons from Martin Buber on Living in Relation with Self, Others, the World, and Life Itself.
Here’s another way to get to know us.
The information above is the conventional way we introduce ourselves. But there are other ways to capture people in more depth.
We’ve been working with John Oliver of Interior Truth, exploring the possibilities of a technique called witnessing.
So, to get beyond the conventional and into the spirit of who we are, watch these:
Why the name Yellow?
We have a strong sense of what Yellow is about, of what it is and what it is not. But we cannot capture, define or contain that in a single word or phrase.
So, inspired by a personal story of pink and yellow Post-It Notes, we landed on the name Yellow.
“Even the dogs may eat of the crumbs which fall from the rich man’s table: and in these days, when the rich in knowledge eat such specialised food at such separate tables, only the dogs have a chance of a balanced diet.”
Sir Geoffrey Vickers (1965)
Yellow is a space where, like the dogs, we can feed off the crumbs.
