Intentional Society: Membrane stories
notes on membership, belonging, and recruitment
Intentional Society: Landing the plane
Last orientation before the holidays: Click here to register for our next orientation video call on Saturday, December 10th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard...
Intentional Society: Facing choices
when every choice represents conflict or confusion...
Intentional Society: Earnestness and courage
...finding the space between aim and ambition
Intentional Society: This is hard
hard and possible and beautiful, all incredibly so...
Intentional Society: Giving-and-receiving report
Next orientation in two days: Click here to register for an orientation video call on Saturday, November 12th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm...
Intentional Society: Caring, giving and receiving, marketing
Our next newcomer orientation will be Saturday, November 12th. "What do we care about?" a.k.a. describing our landscape of care last week turned out pretty...
Intentional Society: Landscape of care
New here? You can register for our next orientation video call on Saturday, October 29th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). What we...
Intentional Society: Emergence and purpose
Next orientation call for newcomers is now October 29th. Looking both backwards and forwards, today I'm considering "emergence and purpose" as a polarity....
Intentional Society: Learning from tension
Orientation call this week - if there's interest! Click here to register for an orientation video call on Saturday, October 15th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific...
Intentional Society: Learning from the kickoff
I'd like these updates to come a little closer to the factual transmission of what we're doing and learning on a weekly basis. I do enjoy a little conceptual...
Intentional Society: Season 8 invitation
Hello friends! Wow, 250 people receiving this now; it's wonderful to feel your support and interest. This week I'd like to simply and straightforwardly...
Intentional Society: The seasons change
Want to catch the Season 8 Intentional Society kickoff? There'll be two orientations on Saturday, September 24th and Saturday, October 1st for new folks....
Intentional Society: acceptance and capacity
Our next newcomer orientation is September 24th, mark your calendars to catch the start of Season 8 in October. Today I wrote in a casual social media post...
Intentional Society: This is a crappy newsletter
The first step to getting involved is our orientation video call on Saturday, September 3rd at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC)....
Intentional Society: Why are we here?
Click here to register for our next orientation video call on Saturday, August 27th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Seen this...
Intentional Society: The great hall of belonging
Our next orientation video call is next week, Saturday August 27th Imagine the great hall of an ancient stone castle, as you swing open the heavy oak doors...
Intentional Society: Slice of life
Click here to register for our next orientation video call on Saturday, August 13th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). This is a...
Intentional Society: Capacity-building and the exercise thereof
Next orientation call is not this week, but the following week: Saturday, August 13th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Written...
Intentional Society: A meaningful and permeable membrane
In-progress change won't shut our front door: Click here to register for our next orientation video call on Saturday, July 30th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific...
Intentional Society: Community in motion
Three small vignettes of what is happening, moving, weaving around and in us: The tangibility of our relational field was present again with us last week,...
Intentional Society: Few word do trick
Condensing the "why": inclusion
Intentional Society: You are invited to this expansion
Orientation registration link for newcomers Saturday, July 9th 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Season 7 kickoff on Sunday. < Meta:...
Intentional Society: The next expansion of IS self-identity
<Meta status: My personal conviction has solidified directionally in vision-space. Big questions remain. This is an echolocation broadcast, bouncing it...
Intentional Society: Facilitating an Exploring
Click here to sign up for our next orientation video call on Saturday, June 11th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Last Sunday we...
Intentional Society: All is practice
Our next orientation video call will be Saturday, June 11th Tech note: This email is arriving from newsletter-updates@intentionalsociety.org with hopefully...
Intentional Society: I wish for you
Click here to sign up for our next orientation video call on Saturday, May 28th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). My desire for...
Intentional Society: Goodhart minimization
Still trying to catch an Orientation? Next call this Saturday May 21st, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) Goodhart's law has become a...
Intentional Society: Club and collective
Please indulge me, if you're reading along here, as I fumble with words today. I wish to locate, coalesce, and attempt to describe an... evolutionary...
Intentional Society: Evolving with scale
Newcomers, our next Orientation call is this Saturday May 7th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) We were over 20 people together last...
Intentional Society: Revisiting being and doing
It's not too late (it never is) to join the new season! Orientation call this Saturday April 30th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC)...
Intentional Society: Stoked to unleash
New folks need an orientation call before attending general sessions. To catch the start of season 6, join us on Saturday April 2nd, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific...
Intentional Society: Integrated-learning loops
This is our quarterly rest week — an in-between time of change and strategy and potential, when I put on my system design hat towards our next season. I was...
Intentional Society: Dare to contemplate heavenly glory
Last orientation call of the season, this Saturday April 9th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) — come if you'd like to get involved...
Intentional Society: Un-knowing experiment review
Our orientation calls for newcomers continue this Saturday April 2nd, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) "What can I un-know?" That was...
Intentional Society: Wrapping cases, opening unknowing
If you'd like to experience Intentional Society, start with an orientation call Saturday March 26th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC)...
Intentional Society: Practicing unknowing
We've entered US Daylight Saving time - our orientation call this Saturday March 19th is at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time, which is now 8pm UTC. Last...
Intentional Society: Metagaming tenure
Yes we're having an orientation call this Saturday, March 12th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC). Pesky clock-management note:...
Intentional Society: Welcoming a wave
Our next (large!) orientation call is this Saturday, March 5th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC). Welcome to all the new...
Intentional Society: Relational cases (and Stoa session)
There will be an IS orientation call this Saturday, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) Stoa session on Monday! Intentional Society is...
Intentional Society: Recursive safety and freedom
There will be an orientation call this Saturday, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) Intentional Society is making an appearance on The...
Intentional Society: The dance of doing and being
This Saturday, Feb 12: Orientation call 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) This Sunday's community gathering features: present-moment-...
Intentional Society: The core of being
Click here to sign up for our next orientation video call on Saturday, February 5th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) <turns on...
Intentional Society: The next loop of the spiral
To join us on this path, register for this orientation call Saturday January 29th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) After the party,...
Intentional Society: Partying and commemorating
Want to join the party? Get involved first! Saturday orientation call January 22nd, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) We're having...
Intentional Society: Why IFS works
Don't know what Intentional Society really is? Join the orientation call Saturday January 15th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC)...
Intentional Society: Parts introduction
Newcomers are invited to an orientation call Saturday January 8th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) as an onramp to connecting with...
Intentional Society: 2022 ease-in
Orientation call tomorrow for newcomers: Saturday January 1st, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) RSVP here Happy New Year as we enter...
Intentional Society: Steering into tension
Intentional Society is on its seasonal rest week - regular activity will begin again on January 1st. I wish to point to and share a deep, structural learning...
Intentional Society: 2021 by (not just) the numbers
Looking through a numbers lens requires a perspectival preamble: What's our relationship to numbers? Modernity says they are data, hard cold evidence leading...