How to Build a Plane While Flying It
An Ember Commons workshop series, hosted on Discord within Refuge Bonne Foi, exploring freedom as practice and community as ecosystem.
📣 Signal Dispatch — Signals from the field
This fall, Ember Commons is launching their first-ever workshop series: How to Build a Plane While Flying It. Torch & Tinder Press is honored to help spread the word.
The series runs September 24 – October 29, 2025, on Wednesday evenings from 7:30–10:00 pm (CST) and will be hosted online at Refuge Bonne Foi.
At its core, this six-week journey is about discovering how freedom is lived — not just spoken about, not just admired in theory, but practiced in the choices we make and the communities we build.
Why This Matters Now
We say at Torch & Tinder that freedom is a practice and resistance is an ecosystem. Ember Commons embodies both of those commitments.
The workshop is not about abstract debates or empty rhetoric. Instead, it asks participants to begin right where they are:
Taking stock of their existing strengths, skills, and resources.
Identifying areas of curiosity and growth.
Examining the communities they belong to — local, digital, or both — and considering their strengths and needs.
Crafting a flexible, personalized roadmap for action that increases both personal agency and collective connection.
This is what cultural resistance looks like when it comes down to daily practice: building together while we’re already in flight.
A Shared Foundation
As part of the series, Ember Commons participants will also have the opportunity to engage with What Are We Supposed to Do? Practicing Cultural Resistance — a Torch & Tinder field guide that many of you have already read or shared.
The field guide isn’t being “taught” as a curriculum here. Instead, it’s being used as an enrichment text — one resource among many that participants may draw on as they chart their own path.
That distinction matters. Ember Commons is not a publishing project; it is a grassroots school. Their role is to cultivate dialogue and discovery, to help people find their place in the ongoing work of freedom. Our field guide simply serves as one touchstone in that process — a reminder that cultural resistance is practical, improvisational, and alive.
The Invitation
Ember Commons puts it beautifully: “We can each make a positive difference, right where we are, with what we have. And when we care for ourselves, and also care for one another, our world is so much brighter.”
This workshop is capped at 24 participants to preserve depth and dialogue. If seats are full, you’ll have the option to join the waitlist and be notified if another series opens.
📍 Where: Refuge Bonne Foi Discord Server (You’ll receive an invitation to the server with your workshop welcome packet.)
🗓 When: Wednesday nights, Sept. 24 – Oct. 29, 7:30–10:00 pm CST
👥 Capacity: 24 participants (waitlist opens once seats are full)
👉 Register here: How to Build a Plane While Flying It
📖 Download the free field guide (optional enrichment text): What Are We Supposed To Do? Practicing Cultural Resistance
This is an important beginning — for Ember Commons, and for anyone looking to practice freedom in a time when so much tries to strip it away.
If you’ve been wondering how to take the next step in your own life — not in isolation, but in connection with others — this is a good place to begin.
Come build with us, even while we’re already in flight.
You are the signal.
Keep your torchlight burning.
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