Intro – Part 1

It is clear for many of us that our usual ways of working and conversing are not up to the tasks and problems at hand. We know too well that there aren’t any simple solutions, and understand deeply that more rules, or more technologies, or more planning, or more business-as-usual don’t prepare us well for dealing with the hottest week on record, the fires, the floods, the inequality, the conflicts, … too many to name here. Each of you could add the specific problems that you encounter in your part and place in the world. The list is long, even endless. As humanity, we are stuck and there is a need to expand the solution space – wider and deeper – to be able to untie the many knots. Clearly, we are in need of something else: different and better ways of being with one another, with all of life around us. We hold the belief that if we can converse with each other, while fully embodying the many relationships we are part of – the connectedness and the constant interweaving – then we will be able to create another world.

We want to dive deeper into Life itself, into a deep embodied understanding of what it is to be fully alive, to be fully thriving together. If you look closely, you notice that most current conversations are not bringing the meaning or the clarity needed, but just offer more of the same. Hence we return to some basics: how we talk with one another, how we create new meaning together. Tending to the basics doesn’t mean it is all simple or simplistic. Basics refer here to a root layer that most of the time stays invisible to our normal, habitual ways of looking. Are we speaking from the assumption of being separate beings, or from an embodied sense that all things and all people are somehow related in a soup of complexity? This is the practice we will describe to you.