Recess Before Revolution

Rest Before Protest. Imagination Before Ideology.

Recess is the pause where we rehearse freedom. It is preparation for revolution — a return to possibility and presence. This is the ethos of Creative Recess.

Core Beliefs

• Rest is Radical: Exhaustion cannot build futures. Restoration can.
• Play is Preparation: Play strengthens imagination, courage, and relational capacity.
• Imagination is Infrastructure: Systems change begins in the realm of story and possibility.
• Practice Precedes Action: Courage grows from rehearsal, iteration, and experimentation.

Recess Before Revolution in Practice

• Civic Recess
• Leadership Compost Workshop
• Creative Recess Circle
• Emergent Deck
• Story Composting
• Identity ecology
• PQ/SQ development

Everything begins with a pause.