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The Practice

The Practice

The Practice

Collective Presencing is a dialogue practice and inquiry process where we cultivate a state of receptivity and deep listening while we hold a guiding question in our group’s awareness and attention, and let meaning emerge, unfold, and weave.

The simple design of the sessions creates the conditions to express and articulate beyond our limited social scripts and roles, expanding what is possible to say and be.

We practice our subtle sensing, a finely tuned noticing of bodily perceptions, including the intelligence of the body and not just rational, linear, and conceptual capacities.

We explore and discover our diversity, the nuances of the many faculties through which we know, our modes of perception and forms of expression, seeking a synergy of different types of intelligence.

We slow down…

Widen and deepen our awareness

Welcome silence

Attune to latent potential

And follow our aliveness as a compass towards creativity and generativity

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In this practice, we don’t control what happens or have a specific agenda. There is a guiding question, and it can often be assumed that the purpose is to find an answer, yet when working with the emergence inherent in living systems, questions serve a different purpose. They invite us into the unknown, opening a realm of new possibilities and connections. They invite more questions and are unafraid of paradoxical answers. We are living the questions, growing our capacity to be with uncertainty.

What becomes possible…

As we engage with an ever-shifting, long-running inquiry, where the guiding question more or less changes with every season, each participant finds new meaning, integrates different perspectives, and sees a wider picture.

Our way of being together evokes group coherence, leading to collective wisdom, opening up the possibility for new insights, inspiration, creative emergence, more nuanced sensing, and generative ways of relating.

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Juliet
Practitioner
“A collective practice that echoes the ancient ways of our ancestors gathering in a circle around a fire, where all beings and ways are accepted. A vibrant call to think beyond the self and individualism and to presence what is arising in the porous, shifting we-ness. Where silence speaks as much as words as we wait on what asks to be presenced.”
Kim
Participant
“….getting over the initial fear of picking up the talking piece, slowly melting away the tension and inner expectation of needing to say something profound or meaningful, beyond the sense of it being alive for me… slowly allowing my perceived obligation to respond to what others were sharing to also be swallowed by the middle.”
Mariandrea
Practitioner
“In our shared space we allow ourselves to feel and move through the blockages from our conditioning and traumas, to become capable of holding the vulnerability and intensity of being intimate with the present moment together and from that expansive openness, we place our attention at the edge of our awareness, sensing, knowing, and language, orienting towards potential beyond our current capacities.”