Wasan session: An Indian approach to relational practices for an age of darkness
What relational practices might hold us through an age of darkness?
Bodhi Sangha - a project rooted in India - has spent the past 12 years exploring what this actually means. In this month’s Wasan session, two of its co-creators, Mohit Trivedi and Corina Angelescu, will share what they have learned about tending to relational fields. Through storytelling, framework-sharing and practical invitations, we’ll explore different dimensions of relationality together. Read more about the context, Bodhi Sangha and the facilitators below.
About the session
How do we foster relational fields in a world whose machinery perpetuates their destruction?
Many Indian knowledge systems recognise the cycles of life - from birth, to flourishing and eventual decay. This understanding includes Kalyug, the final chapter of a cycle marked by the decline of virtue and the rise of chaos. It is said that Kalyug is a time when an avatar named Kali would be ruling and kaal means time. Kaala also represents darkness. An age of darkness is upon us.
Across wisdom traditions, this has been predicted. In Indian context, it can be found in the scriptures and indigenous references, but also reflected upon by Gandhi (with his critique of modern civilisation in Hind Swaraj and all throughout his life) and Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo (who talk about the need to regenerate the spiritual energy of a society).
So what is the response to Kalyug? What practices might hold us through an age of darkness? Indian wisdom traditions suggest that the antidote to fragmentation is not resistance alone, but the patient weaving of relational fields. These are spaces where we remember our fundamental interconnection and build our cultural resilience.
Bodhi Sangha has spent the past 12 years exploring what this actually means in practice. Born from a field of maitri (noble friendship), our sangha has become a living laboratory for understanding how relational depth is cultivated, what it enables, and how it can lead to greater levels of sense-making, meaning-making and coordinated action.
In this session, we'll share what we've learned about tending relational fields. We've identified five dimensions of relationality - from transactional connection to experiences of oneness - that illuminate how depth and coherence emerge in collective practice.
Through storytelling, framework-sharing, and practical invitations, we'll explore these dimensions together and create space for you to tune into the relational fields you're already part of.
About Bodhi Sangha
We are weaving a collective of ecosystem leaders who sense, respond and co-create a future aligned with the deep intelligence of life. Bodhi Sangha is emerging from the space in between our organisations, communities and geographies. By walking together with increasing purity of intention and awareness of action, we deepen our sense of "maitri" (noble friendship) and evolve into a model of mutual flourishing. Our interconnectedness is our main source of strength, wisdom and transformation.
Our vision is to mobilise 1000 ecosystem leaders by 2039, co-creating a sensing-action network that fosters societal resilience, collective intelligence and deep democracy.
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About Mohit Trivedi and Corina Angelescu
Mohit has been engaging in social change for 15 years, exploring the realms of grey and underneath while striving to integrate this wisdom into his day-to-day life and work.
Over this time, he has facilitated the creation of five entities, taking on roles such as teacher, germinator, steward, custodian, barista, learning designer, reluctant facilitator, and ecosystem weaver. His work and interests are deeply rooted in spiritual and socio-political transformation.
With a background in psychology, nursing, alternative education, social change, and social entrepreneurship, Mohit seeks harmony in his relationships with power, money, work, and people. He aims to act from a post-tragic zone to address the metacrisis of our time.
Currently, he serves as the Director of an Educational Society and is a co-founder and steward at Bodhi Sangha, bringing together individuals and organizations focused on holistic leadership, decentralization, and nurturing the existing and next generation of spiritual and socio-political leaders.
Corina is a facilitator and community weaver passionate about systems change, participatory leadership and regenerative economic practices. Over the past 14 years she has been part of a beautiful web of networks, communities and self-organized teams, dedicating herself to impact-driven roles and meaningful spaces for individual and collective transformation. Who she is today is influenced by playgrounds like Co-here Collective, Bodhi Sangha, ChangemakerXchange, Collective Transitions, The Alternative University, and many of the alliances, NGOs and social enterprises she has worked with.
At heart, Corina is a villager. A neighbor. A slowly living creature, craving for the depth of human connections and the regeneration of our relationships with the land. She is on a quest to reciprocate the wonderful gifts life has so generously offered her throughout her existence. She chooses to be a steward of life’s abundance and beauty, and believes that her status is not determined by how much she accumulates, but rather by how much she can let her gifts flow back into the web of life and be of service.