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Intentional Society: The next expansion of IS self-identity
June 16, 2022
<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
June 9, 2022
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
June 3, 2022
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
May 25, 2022
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
May 19, 2022
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
May 12, 2022
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
May 5, 2022
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
April 28, 2022
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
April 21, 2022
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
April 15, 2022
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
April 7, 2022
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
March 31, 2022
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
March 24, 2022
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
March 17, 2022
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
March 10, 2022
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
March 3, 2022
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)
February 24, 2022
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
February 17, 2022
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
February 10, 2022
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
February 3, 2022
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
January 27, 2022
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
January 20, 2022
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
January 13, 2022
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
January 6, 2022
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
December 31, 2021
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
December 23, 2021
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
December 16, 2021
Looking through a numbers lens requires a perspectival preamble: What's our relationship to numbers? Modernity says they are data, hard cold evidence leading...
Intentional Society: Circling experience report
December 9, 2021
The last orientation call of 2021 is this Saturday December 11th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC). Can you believe we've done 33...
Intentional Society: One year later
December 2, 2021
Our orientation call series resumes this Saturday December 4th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) Looking back at the history page of...
Intentional Society: Accepting gratitude
November 25, 2021
No orientation this week, but you can register for a December 4th call. A few days ago I thought, "I don't wanna do a thematic US Thanksgiving letter, no...
Intentional Society: Expanding attention and Circling
November 18, 2021
Our next orientation call is Saturday November 20th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC) How free is our will? I like this question much...
Intentional Society: Overlap of object and meta
November 12, 2021
Want to practice together being the selves, friends, and agents we want to be? RSVP for an orientation Saturday November 13th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard...
Intentional Society: Meta on power
November 5, 2021
Just before our US clocks fall back from Daylight time, there's an orientation call this Saturday! November 6th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm...
Intentional Society: The sweet smell of tension
October 28, 2021
Is this the right time to journey together? RSVP for the orientation call Saturday October 30th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) We...
Intentional Society: Polarity management
October 21, 2021
There will be an orientation call again this week: Saturday October 23rd, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) RSVP here I have a sense...
Intentional Society: Life, self-aware
October 13, 2021
If you'd like to connect to the community life of Intentional Society, register for the orientation call this Saturday at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time...
Intentional Society: Learning and looping
October 7, 2021
We began our season last Sunday! The door is still open, so by all means join the orientation call this Saturday at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm...
Intentional Society: Season transition
October 1, 2021
Want to catch the start of this next season? Our orientation call this Saturday, October 2nd 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) is your...
Intentional Society: Glorious visions
September 25, 2021
Coming soon -- Season 4 starts with an orientation call for newcomers on October 2nd and first general session October 3rd. Paul wrote to the Corinthians...
Intentional Society: What do you-I-we want?
September 16, 2021
No orientation this week or next -- our 4th season which will run Oct 3 through Dec 19, so you can look forward to an orientation call on October 2nd....
Intentional Society: Making visible the unseen
September 9, 2021
There will be an orientation call this Saturday September 11th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). These are a prerequisite to...
Intentional Society: Consistency and simplicity
September 1, 2021
Because the more of these I hold, the more people keep showing up: Orientation call this Saturday September 4th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm...
Intentional Society: The power of stories
August 26, 2021
If you've been intending to make an Intentional Society orientation call, we're having another this Saturday August 28th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time...
Intentional Society: From edges to stages with mixed results
August 18, 2021
To get involved with Intentional Society, start with an orientation call! Join in this Saturday August 21st, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern,...
Intentional Society: Edge-finding and the messy kitchen
August 11, 2021
To become involved with Intentional Society, get started with an orientation call! Next call Saturday August 14th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm...
Intentional Society: New practice - Edge Case
August 5, 2021
Today I'll introduce a new practice we've invented, or perhaps evolved by combining existing practices with new intent. The punny working title is "Edge...
Intentional Society: Sit with me in paradox
July 28, 2021
I'll write about our new developmental group practice next week but first, would you care to sit with me in paradox for a few moments? Polarity is a noun,...
Intentional Society: Unknowing and sensing
July 22, 2021
There's one more orientation call this Saturday July 24th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC), which will be the last in one for July....
Intentional Society: Introductions and representations
July 14, 2021
Miss last week's orientation? Same time this Saturday July 17th, 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC) Hello to the newest 20% of you...
Intentional Society: Season 3 kick-off and new website!
July 7, 2021
Hello friends, This weekend we begin what I'm calling our third season of Intentional Society - the span of a quarter (and rest week last Sunday) seems about...
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