In some ways, the Curiosity Department is the oldest and most stable department of The Service Guild. My (Tasshin’s) blog (started in 2018-2019), my

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In some ways, the Curiosity Department is the oldest and most stable department of The Service Guild. My (Tasshin’s) blog (started in 2018-2019), my podcast (started in 2019), and my general learning practice are quite robust at this point. As a team, we (Tasshin, Kristijan, and Abi) are all happy, curious learners with specific ongoing interests and areas of exploration that we pursue individually and support each other in.

In other ways, the Curiosity Department is the least mature department of The Service Guild. Specifically, what’s the way that it is a service program? How can we scale what’s working for us to more people?

It’s been clear for some time that the fundamental value or mission of the Curiosity Department is to trust our questions, to follow our curiosity, and then to share what we learn with others as we do so, leaving the breadcrumbs we wish we’d found. The question is how exactly to support ourselves and other learners in that shared orientation.

This year (2024), we did a number of short-term Curiosity-related experiments exploring possible public-facing directions for our shared work, including: The Reading Hour, Rabbit Hole Day, and Art in Autumn. These experiments were valuable to ourselves and to others, and we learned a lot doing them. That said, they didn’t quite scratch the itch that we are looking for.