The mycelium
is the trembling
fungal forcefield,
experience itself,
where we situate
our work
It is all we do;
all we can do.
The mycelium
is the trembling
fungal forcefield,
experience itself,
where we situate
our work
It is all we do;
all we can do.
Our primary focus is not a human audience. It is not about changing minds or persuading with philosophy. Our work is to open spaces of spacious play where new practices of care can blossom. The mycelium is more than a framework for our projects; it is an encounter with what cannot be anticipated.
Mbari
Mycorrhiza
Mycorrhiza | Network
Mycorrhizae are the unholy alliances between fungi and plant roots, a strange mutuality that does not care about identity and fixity, or parse between self and other.
Within Dancing with Mountains, our Mycorrhiza project is our relational architecture. It holds our networks, fellowships, and collaborations across organizations, foundations, and institutional thresholds. But more than that, it names our commitment to unlearning together - to forging relationships that are more improvisational than strategic, more fungal than firm.
We are less interested in clarity than in curiosity. We are playing with how institutions might become leaky, how partnerships might become ceremonial, how funding might become a paraphilanthropic gesture - an offering to the unknown.
We do not believe leadership is about arriving first. We think it's more alien than that. More awkward. More fungal. More drift than drive.
The Emergence Network
Othering and Belonging Institute
Skoll Foundation
Naduve (Scholar Activism)
Garrison Institute
Vikalp Sangam
Mbari | Carnivals
In precolonial Igbo cosmologies, the mbari was not just a structure - it was a ceremony, a collective invocation, a house for the gods and a stage for the sacred. Built slowly and with great care, and then left to decay, the mbari was not meant to last. It was a tribute to impermanence. A recognition that some things must be made - not to solve, but to notice.
In this spirit, our Mbari project holds our carnivals, courses, and communities of practice. These are temporary gatherings—residencies, constellations of inquiry, and experimental convenings across the world. At the heart of Mbari is a longing to make sanctuary, to attend to the tremors in the floor, to respond to the soft urgencies that do not come with instructions. Mbari is not about building structures that last. It is about holding space for what wants to appear, and then letting it vanish.
India
Europe
United States
Kenya
Brazil
Inactive: Australia
Kenya