Each year, Oak Grove selects an annual theme drawn from the teachings of our founder, J. Krishnamurti. The theme becomes a shared inquiry across the school, in classrooms, professional development, K Discussions, community gatherings, and conversations throughout the year.

Our theme for 2026–27 is “The Living Movement of Relationship.”

Relationship is at the heart of life at a school. We are continually in relationship with students and teachers, friends and colleagues, parents and children, with the natural world, and with the larger community around us.

Krishnamurti invites us to look at relationship not as something fixed, but as something alive:

“A relationship is a process of learning. A relationship is not a static affair but a living movement. So it is never the same; what it was yesterday it is not today.”

— J. Krishnamurti
The Whole Movement of Life is Learning

What happens when we approach one another in this way? Can we meet each other freshly, rather than through the assumptions, memories, and images we have accumulated? Can relationship become a place not only where we encounter one another, but where we learn about ourselves?

Krishnamurti describes relationship as a mirror in which we can see ourselves: our reactions, fears, prejudices, attachments, and also the possibility of affection and love. In this sense, relationship is not simply one part of life. Life itself is a movement in relationship.

There is also a responsibility within relationship. As we explore this theme with our students, we ask them to examine the many ways they are in relationship: with friends and family, teachers and classmates, with people they may never meet, with nature, and with the wider world. How we relate to one another does not end with the people closest to us. It shapes our community and, in turn, the society and world we create together.

Throughout this school year, we will explore what it means to observe this movement closely and to recognize our responsibility within it: our relationship with one another, with ourselves, with nature, and with the world we are continually creating together.

Watch Below:
J. Krishnamurti — Ojai, California, 1981
Public Talk 2: Life is a Movement of Relationship