Learning with Abeyance – Rising toward Worlds in Gestures of Awareness

Abstract

In storying my current relationship with abeyance, this paper plays with the ambiguity of a word that is often used in relation to transitory times. In giving up on one definition, it holds back from being everything it can be, and creates spaces for what matters in education to emerge. Three stories relate beautiful confusions inherent in my learning with abeyance. They share colourful experiences of trying to suspend the self from the ego's tendency for divisiveness, and in so doing, let sparks fly; illuminating the complexities of a process, which as it rises in awareness, also gestures toward worlds beyond and the spaces around these worlds.