Arriving well, tense, waking, invigorated, expectant, knowing humanity, referencing outside human experience, tensions danced around, larger potential held, connected to a humanity, curious humans, uncurious humanity, bigger than ‘garden’, not being potentials telling, humanity as a context, relationship with context, relationships within context, separate to the context, the limit of asking within context, conversation with→
Arriving resolved, insided, pugilistic, arrived, lost, springing, quality of tension, generative tension, other tensions, anxious tensions, needy tensions, complacency tensions, assembly tensions, tensegrity, tension within me, tensions within humanity, being and becoming, holding in a river, holding as an ocean, being and differentiating, expressing in tension, within one held, not between things in time, expanding→
Arriving mysteriously, waiting, calmly frenetic, looking at the loss of criticality of assumptions that inform desires, the questioning of assumptions of truth and rationality, the moving into more openness in the ways of knowing, truth in desire, truth as desire, desire for truth, optioning in the confusion, accepting of greater truths to guide accepting, collective→
Arriving saddened, neutralish, calm, grateful, sanguine, doing the humanity thing, celebrating doing well, critique of efforts, excitement in successes, disappointment in failures, dancing around the pole, dances in polarity, walking the balance beam, being wobbly, not being definite, tenuous balancing, context of humanity, humanity in contexts, potential for humans, more than human’s potentials, appropriate questions,→
Arriving beginning, fully, arriving, grateful, spaciously – patient in a system, systems of care, care of patience, timing and timeliness, sensing of connection, timing of next step, noting where is the turn, turning to the turning, more than process and procedure, non-assuming of placement, daily attendancing, one-off attendance, orchestration, orchestralisation, allowing grieving, senses of sensing,→
Arriving watered, shed, attentively, greenly, trying, shedding possessions, skilful sweeping, raising fish, necessity of retention, intra-generational discarding, worthiness of time, brazing copper, texting greetings, culture as knowledge, humanity necessity, receptivity to learn, ritualising tensions, discerning instructing, child-like imitation, cultural reliability, evolution is draconian, culture convenient, apithology enablement, moving past, bringing with, integration of, assessment of→
Arriving polyphonically, invigorated, liberated, anticipatory, tentatively, erratically, experiencing humour, recognition of humility, prolonged reflection, human responding, uncrossing a snake’s path, unwell enough for what, noting the nature of, attentiveness to attending, locating discerning, ways of holding, softening pre-suppositions, virtue as a defence to grace, dropping from self-centrism, beginning with humanitism, including while expanding, the embrace→
Arriving curious, blank, repetitiously, stable, experiences of loss, memory in fondness, querying disappointment, felt scale of inquiry, resolution of observation, texture in tapestry, contribution of expression, potentials altered, learning remembered, how experiences, old rocks, long nows, multi-generational timeframes, already at scale, doubling in cells, capacity for experiences altering, quality of humanity unchanging, belief in belief→
Arriving gently, lucky, cautiously, warming, enriched, unhindered, confused images, bemused news, influencing thought, generative information, different stories, different storying, stability within instability, hold not gripped by, held and held by, hold for and hold forth, choosing to engage, compulsions to know, directing attention, quality of holding, spiritual traditions, changed world, world changing, seeing holdings, reflecting→
Arriving pensive, awake, alert, surprised, grateful, methodical, musing on trajectory, learning as trajectorising, the path enacting, the richness unfolding, stepping onto, as a stepping into, when is a pathway, implied resulting, implication of resultants, implied possibility, trajectory as directionality, pathway as variability, destiny making, dropping away, pathway as enriched path, removal of arrival, moving as→
Arriving refreshed, gratefully, quiet, grounded, concerned, cold, awe-filled, celebrating rich history, wellspring potentiating apithology, gardening nourishing gardening, participating in unknowing, others arriving similarly, benefits un-envisaged, appreciative of the beauty, experiencing what is possible, remarkable new becomings, recipe for mystery, more than imaginable, satiating and increasing, grateful in not knowing, marking a point in a trajectory,→
Having now received all the feedback forms from the 12Y Practitioners Retreat, planning has commenced for our 13Y practitioner event. As recently mentioned, the format of biennial longer retreats, with shorter weekend Practitioner Masterclasses in the intervening year, seems to suggest a shorter gathering for 2017. Before looking at the emerging options for this year,→
Arriving focussed, unbalanced, undimming, gently, thrilling, humming, seasons in becoming, swirling of leaves, description of own swirling, temporal explanations, generative repenting, within remembering, grace re-membering, sociology becomes, humaniology, visiting marsness, preceding knowing, immersive nature glimpsing, (human) nature doing the seeing, conceptual-ising particles, inquiry-ising allness, curious verses inquiryness, whole-seasonality, winterness telling us, about (not summer) only→
This post concerns reflections on one of the premises of humanity inquiry. There is something in the basis for its design that seems to overcome a 50 year conundrum. Given that we know that humanity inquiry processes do work and are possible (at least with those a little bit trained in apithology-like inquiries) what do→
With the recent anniversary of 4600 days of apithology, there seems to be a ‘season of change’ marker in the history of this discipline. In a recent visit to the apithology archives, I spent some hours finding the paper, email, journal, draft document, electronic, and internet artifacts that represent the events surrounding apithology’s conception in→
Arriving serene, present, I’m trying, echoy, chilled, cleansed; human nature, comfort seeking, comfort in nature, comfortable with discomfort, gooey blissfulness, uncomfortable discomfort, suspended suspension, dynamic movement, yearning for comfort, times of changingness, resting place arrival, essential safeness, unconstrained freedom, striving for safety, unbeknownst to insecurity, four aspects of comfortability, role of orientation, influencing sufficiency, humanity→
Arriving scraggly, invigorated, pensing, blindly balancing, softly. noticing endings, and beginnings, developmental punctuations, outcome clarity, commencement ambiguity, humanity’s contributing, end of life caring, possibility ending-no-ending, beyond cognitive holding, humanity reflexivity, reflecting on an ending, reflexion in a continuing; reflecting, reflection, reflexion, habituated continuation, no-end cycling, physiology of continuity, chronic responsibility, indefinite sensitivity, the hundred-year-ouch of→
Arriving reflective, clearing, learning, amused, distressed- verifying data, feelings, conceptions, objectively and concretely, subjectively and correctly, inter-subjectively and consonantly, looking for veracity, as a consonance with humanity, more than trans-individual, more than trans-cultural, sometimes true, not always true, partly true, totally true (for limited situations), in the generative finding new-ness, building on consilience, veracity in→
Arriving gleaming/blooming, concerned, naturalised, grateful, with gratitude for vantage points, being with tensions, not managing, correcting, controlling, offering reasons, only recognitions, not problems, interplay, not a lens (for seeing), a container-ing (for holding), not a pointing out thing, a allowing thing, not a narrative that it does, but what results, unappealing as a fix or→
Arriving reconciled, slowed, gently, blooming, raw yet present, renewing; new beginnings, celebrations for renewal, enabling continuing, ‘what do I want to do’, becomes ‘what does openness ask me/us to be open to’, excited about the ‘what’, or to deeply considering the ‘who’, continuation without arbitrariness, ongoingness, not-me on-handing, three-times coherency, better-future privileging, building for others’→