Collective Practices Media
Books & Audio for Contemplative Practice in Ordinary Life.
We develop books, workbooks, field guides, audio practices, and related media that bring together meditation, spiritual history, lived experience, and practical paths of practice.
Not as an escape from ordinary life, but as a way to live it with more presence, compassion, and courage.
Publishing through Batture House Books.
An Imprint for Collective Practices
Collective Practices Media is a small independent publisher and emerging publishing co-op for books, field guides, workbooks, and audio resources rooted in contemplative practice in ordinary life.
Through Batture House Books, we publish and support thoughtful, practical, and grounded resources for readers and practitioners: books to read, field guides to work with, workbooks to reflect in, and audio practices to return to.
We are also developing a collaborative model to help selected authors and practitioners navigate self-publishing and hybrid publishing through coaching, editorial direction, publication strategy, audiobook planning, and reader-centered design.
What we publish
Books
Foundational works on meditation, spirituality, history, resilience, and contemplative life.
Workbooks
Structured companion materials for reflection, integration, and practice.
Field Guides
Shorter, practical guides focused on specific practices, themes, methods, or life transitions.
Audio Practices
Guided meditations and spoken practices designed to support direct experience.
Coming Fall 2026:
Meditation with Mercy, A Beginner’s Guide (and we’re all beginners)
Book 1 in the At the Tables of Life series
Our first series begins with Meditation with Mercy, a foundational guide to meditation practice, in the context of spiritual history and contemplative practices in ordinary life. The book will include companion audio recordings
The At the Tables of Life series is for readers who want context, clear practice paths, and a way to deepen their contemplative practices over time while living their everyday lives. The next books in the At the Tables of Life series will be several Field Guides developed for specifc audiences, each with author-narrated audio practices.
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About Collective Practices Media
Collective Practices Media develops books, audio, and related media for contemplative practice in ordinary life.
We believe meditation, prayer, mindfulness, reflection, and other contemplative practices are not reserved for monasteries, retreat centers, or extraordinary circumstances. They belong in daily life: in work, relationships, caregiving, conflict, grief, aging, leadership, transition, and repair.
Why “Collective Practices”?
Because it often takes more than one practice to live a meaningful life.
We are shaped by the ways we listen, lead, write, breathe, repair, serve, grieve, and begin again. Mindfulness, meditation, spirituality, religion, and prayer are not private escapes from the world. They are practical ways of engaging the world with ethical presence, steadiness, and compassion.
Collective Practices is not about perfection. It is about showing up — together, again and again — with attention, humility, courage, breath, and care.
For Future Collaborations
Collective Practices Media is currently in startup mode. We are developing our first publications and shaping a cooperative model for future work with selected authors, practitioners, and creative collaborators.
Over time, we may support books, workbooks, field guides, audio practices, video, educational projects, and documentary-style media connected to contemplative practice in ordinary life.
We are especially interested in first-time and emerging authors, practitioners, and storytellers with connections to the Gulf Coast states — Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida — who are exploring meditation, yoga, prayer, spirituality, grief, transition, leadership, professional resilience, or lived contemplative experience through thoughtful regional, personal, professional, or cultural perspective.
Our approach is inclusive, nonsectarian, and grounded in respect for diverse spiritual, religious, secular, and cultural traditions.
We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts, recordings, films, or project proposals. We are not accepting new author or collaborator applications at this time.
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Joining the interest list does not create a publishing relationship or guarantee future collaboration. We will share updates as the imprint and cooperative model develop.