The Earth To Light Workshop.
Eight weeks in marble, for leadership teams, boards and groups. Each person carves a block of Namibian marble of their own and walks the journey of the stone, one light a week, from earth to light.
A block of marble does not negotiate.
It cannot be rushed, flattered or argued with. It answers only to patience, attention and a steady hand.
That is why it teaches what a seminar cannot: how to see what is not yet visible, how to work under pressure without breaking, and how to take away everything that is not the form.
Over eight weeks, each participant brings a raw block of Karibib marble to form at the LUNAMARA studio in Windhoek, guided by the master and the studio's sculptors. While the hands work on the stone, the conversation works on the person: identity, calling, character and legacy.
The group works side by side. No one carves another's block, and no one carves alone.
From earth to light, in eight weeks.
The programme follows the Seven Lights of LUNAMARA and the Endless Light that completes them. Each week belongs to one light and its virtue: a stage in the life of the block, and a question for the person carving it. When the eighth week ends, the stone's journey from earth to light is complete.
Still Light
The Light of PatienceYou choose your block: unformed, unspoken, still as it lay in the earth. Before the first cut, you learn to look at the stone, its seam and its weight, and at yourself.
What is already here?Given Light
The Light of DevotionThe first strokes. You accept the stone as it was given, and begin to trust your hands.
What have you been given?Radiant Light
The Light of DiscoveryRoughing out: the rough mass falls away and the form is discovered for the first time, with the joy of seeing it appear.
What are you ready to discover?Standing Light
The Light of SteadfastnessThe long middle, where the stone resists and the work is hard. Pressure, and how you stand in it.
Where will you stand?Living Light
The Light of HopeThe form begins to show itself. You find it by taking away, never by adding.
What is beginning to emerge in you?Deep Light
The Light of DiscernmentDetail and refinement, the part that takes longest. Patience becomes a practice.
What will only patience reveal?Resting Light
The Light of GratitudeThe surface is brought to its finish, and the stone begins to give the light back. Rest, and gratitude for the journey.
What do you want to be remembered for?Endless Light
The Light of FaithfulnessThe works are unveiled together, signed by the people who made them and recorded with a certificate. The journey from earth to light is complete, and each work goes home with its maker.
What continues after the last stroke?Every person is a block of possibility.
Move the chisel across the stone. Somewhere inside it, a face is waiting. In the workshop this takes weeks, and you carry the result home.
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For whom
Leadership teams and boards. Founders and their partners. Family enterprises preparing the next generation. Private groups who want to mark a passage together.
No experience with stone is needed. The marble meets everyone at the same place: at the beginning.
What each person receives
A block of Namibian marble, chosen with the sculptors. The tools, protective equipment and studio time to work it. The guidance of the master and the studio's sculptors at every session.
And the finished work: signed by its maker, recorded in the LUNAMARA archive and accompanied by its certificate.
How it is arranged
Each cohort is formed on enquiry. The rhythm of the sessions, the size of the group and the dates are set with each organisation, across the eight weeks at the studio in Windhoek.
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