Notes from meet-ups and notices of meetings
Arriving appreciatively, gentling, wondering, gently, patient – asking about true generosity, being generous as freely giving, generosity as a sense of heart-space-holding, giving with unconditionality, timing and patience in generous giving, holding the seeds, right moment finding, contributive not dissipative, seeds invasive, untended gardens, larger than me-ness, larger than we-ness, the us-ness of generosity, not→
Arriving refreshed, softly, queasy, looking, busy, bearded. The when of practice occurring, the practice instruction, the practice break, the daily intention, the occasional revisiting, all orientations providing opportunity, awarenessing of practice possibility, setting aside the boxing and aside setting, in the anticipation of doing, when is curiosity not occurring, being as less doing of, a→
Thank you for completing the survey on thoughts and preferences for our planning for the Annual Practice Retreat. The survey was designed (mostly) to prompt some thinking and (as usual) gauge initial responses as an inquiry to see what (if anything at all) is needed. Some detail of the responses is set out below. The→
Arriving enamoured, bristling, aching, brimming, prosplendent, mourning. Embodied trichotomies, grounding alignment, holding inside and outside, disharmonic convergences, longer perspectives, holding true importance, quality of resiliency, looking at a situation, looking from trichotomy, as condition, suffering and forbearance, presence and enrichment, not a part from the outcome, a part of the outcome, a witnessing of the→
Arriving uncertain, appreciating, playfully, settling, smiling, lucky, sitting with; appreciating enablement for the first time, no sense of enable, going in with the self as source, an important distinguishing, of the purpose held with, ‘enabling of all as the enabling of all’, the allowing that precedes the enabling, not to do for, confidence in the→
Arriving focussed, balanced, balancing, looking, ready, chirpy, busy – the presence of distracting, the befriending of all, in a longer learning, allowing to be as, arising and asked for, witnessing this, in caring regard, embracing of the vessel, friend to the self, in a bigger picture, foibles and searching, seeking and distracting, seeing all in→
Arriving fragmented, reveling & blooming, fudging it, in transit; reaffirming a historic truth no matter what the conditions is a ‘conditioning’ condition; the meaning made of ‘the conditions’ determines what is considered as ‘conducive’ next; the journey of our life trajectory has a momentum to reinforce itself remaining itself; the uniqueness of our respective becoming→
Arriving boyant, grateful, peaceful, unsettled, appreciative, gently, coloured; reflection and preparation, laying down a path while walking, looking forward to territory changing, capacity build by doing, preparation for future reflection, where is our attention in the experiencing, anticipating the learning, for the learner who is coming, attuning to the future dynamics, less than predictive, more→
Arriving joyfully, committed, muted and grounded, seeking expectantly happily, exhilarated, heart-warmed, resonant, honouring qualities, extending self, letting go, gratitude for opportunity, stability in extension, body acceptance, humanity resonance, conditions for receiving, opening happening, holding the quietude, open to a calling for, strengthening the container, remediating the dissolution of the uncontained, vigilience with no rush to→
Arriving frazzled, open, strangely spritely, multi-tasked, with awake-fullness. Practice(s) sitting within practice, doing in, with, ‘as’, complimenting together, separately or separately together, aligning as lenses for minding the mindful, influencing contributively distinctively, within a holding of practicing, at differing scales, a Humanity level healing, where scale is scaled by holding an intention, in self that→
Arriving quietly, multi-facetedly, gently-smiling, sanguinely, wondering. Different seasons, different energies, daily flows, river flows, tidal flows, standing ready, thresholding, simple next choices, determining of flows of choosing, tipping over the edge of a new doing, teetering into new beginnings, tarot humility, temporary reflection, swirling waters, imaginary conflicts, naive fresh beginnings, equinoxial murmurings, humans looking for→
Arriving as: muffled, pioneering, surprised, ruffled, phlemy, jittery. What is it that ‘naming’ and labeling does to our exploring – of what appears to be known and what may be limiting our unknowing? A tree alone standing, a sentry of past magnificence that has been recently rediscovered as essential for our community. A tension in→
Generative Participatory Investigation (GPI) is the apithology modality used for inquiry as humanity. On 17 July 2015 we held our first on-line GPI in multiple locations, building on the development of this face-to-face collective practice at the 10 Year Event in October 2014. The topic of this particular GPI was the consultation on the form→
The July 2015 WellSpring marks the fourth year of continuous meeting of our community in that practice modality. This monthly-get-together has become a useful habit, providing a place to re-nourish the community, and as a result, the participants equally. On this occasion it is timely to recall the origins of this meeting practice and the history→
Arriving as invigorated, happy, breathing, stretching. Element of service in, who in ‘service for’, and in service when, social media now, humanity needs in three times, in service to, in service for, in service of, which timing, seed in time, groups of future, the now destroying the ‘to be’, choosing in enabling, actions of re-moving,→
Arriving composted, clear, creatively, swaying, clearer, clearest, satisfied. Lineage learning, rope of holding, confusion and chaos, safe navigating, humanity learning, learning doing , lineage holding, line finding, musics in the musicality of humanity music, chaos as formative, family of healing, seeing the healing seeing, giving of the gifts in formality, other knowledges known, respectful contribution,→
Arriving stunning, open, ruminating, misty-eyed, in detail, reflective. Connecting to holding, connecting with holding, finding in what we do, the doing for all, all find their doing, gaining in the all available from all, and the all available in each, dancing with no necessity for change, dancing with no expectation of change, doing ‘for, by,→
Arriving naturally, attuning, easily, sniffly, pleasantly surprised, undecided. Present to renewal, cyclic renewal, generative renewal, refresh, restart, resuming, revisiting, replacing, renewal as four aspects, sufficiency, ongoing exploration, already knew, new knewing, holding others in sufficiency, changes receptivity, creation of sanctuary, inquiry into retreat, appropriate pacing, conducive conditions, coming sufficient, tuning up for the next iteration,→
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Arriving as: preoccupied, stalled, arriving, cosy, engaged. generative minds, contracted learnings, leaning into, other ways of being, contracting, contracted, contractive, what happened, what happens, what could happen, locating context, history of learning, in the learners learning, context as history, container as new-mystery, learning as motivation, within capacity for engagement, supportive community, pacing of practice, labelling→