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 convey an invitation to you as we begin our 8th season of Intentional Society, which runs October through December. It's an opportune time to come into connection with this community and its relational field.
For anyone that has attended in the past, just reply to this email for the link to Sunday's kickoff. For anyone new, click here to register for the orientation video call on Saturday, October 1st at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Daylight Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC).
Sunday the 2nd restarts our weekly Community Practice Session series. But perhaps this will be our first season with more other-day events than Sunday calls! I'm excited to find out. I'll leave you with this consideration of how to define IS, which I've been using on social media this week:
Intentional Society is a community and culture of awareness, acceptance, and integrity. It’s a way of being more fully who we want to be, growing bigger selves through relational practice with aligned friends. (essence and purpose frame)
Intentional Society is a space where structure and emergence dance, where being and doing intertwine, where meta becomes object, enriching the soil of our lives to sprout forth meaningful connections and impact. (construct metaphor frame)
Intentional Society is a social laboratory exploring the latest psycho-technologies and self-therapeutic modalities, building our skills and capacities in an optimally supportive environment. (scientific frame)
Intentional Society is a set of video calls of various sizes between an international collective of humans, talking with and listening to each other, wired up with a few docs, emails, and spreadsheets. (concrete reductive frame)
Intentional Society is all those things and more, as we continue to evolve it in and between and around ourselves.
Cheers,
James
P.S. If you're a Season 7 member and haven't yet opted in for this round, check your inbox for the renewal form link!