Description: is your willingness to do something about it
This festival, QuinkFair, starts with two unusual challenges: embracing a new word and a dare.
The first idea is that there is an opposite of trauma: a specific event occurs and afterwards you experience healing or a shift in your life in a more positive direction. We have invented a new word to describe this phenomenon: a quink . Falling in love is often a quink, giving up a destructive habit or toxic relationship is a quink, finding a new hobby you love can be a quink. Spiritual enlightenment is almost always a quink.
The dare is that you will open yourself to experiencing this quink thing. You can increase the chances of experiencing a quink by talking about them, by listening to other people share their transformative experiences, or by putting yourself in an environment that’s different from your usual day to day life. We don’t pretend that this search for quinks is a scientific endeavor, it is far more mysterious than that, we don’t really know how to create quinks, they are more elusive than that. But we do belie