Are you feeling exhausted by pre-semester planning? Dreading the new school year? Not sure how to slow down? Here's a tool for planning your time with intentional slowness, care, and accountability to yourself and others. bit.ly/SlowSemester #slowprofessor #CovidCampus
Access note: folder contains PDF with alt-text and headings and a Google docs text-only version. Both have printable/editable tools for your use in planning the semester.
This is the first digital version of my zine, Slow Dwelling, which ran from 2012-2013 and focused on crip time, plant time, and moon time. Here, I share my technique for using a garden-planning temporality that my grandfather taught me (growing by the moon phases) to plan time.
Planning the semester by the moon phases is a combination of the forms of personal planning I learned from doing the NCFDD boot camp several years ago and a tool that I use to plan each gardening season. It aligns each week with a specific purpose.
The tables provided are the same ones I use every semester to plan my syllabi, writing schedules, research, conference schedule, and life things. I have already filled out the moon phase information for you week-by-week, so all you have to do is plan.
Take what works and leave the rest! A lot of people find planning to be anxiety-producing and that is valid (I feel you). I also want us all to give ourselves permission to slow down, plan rest, evaluate whether our tasks and goals are manageable, and figure out what to do if not
So if, like me, you regularly forget to eat, make a plan for that. If you feel frustrated with how little time you have to decompress, make a plan for that. Do it now before you are in the thick of things.
Wishing you all ease for the coming semester! A few bonus threads on these topics: Designing Slow, Spacious Time.
Crip rituals of slowing down: #cripritual
Breathe spaciousness into the syllabi:
