Intentional Society: We've really got it now
Happy new year. As we begin our 9th season of practice together at Intentional Society, looking back I see that what we've mapped out thus far is nothing less than a sufficient concise how-to model for the process of psychological growth! I've said these words before, here they are again:
Awareness. Acceptance. Integrity.
Those words by themselves are too thin to carry the transmission of the motions that they represent. But they each point to a motion, a movement, a verb:
Notice. Welcome. Integrate.
Each of those motions, in turn, connects to a cluster of similar words and ideas, and a set of practices! Sound bites like "subject-object shift" and "transcend and include" get tossed around as just more phrases, but our model works for us in part because we've re-derived it for ourselves. It's similar to others, yes, and yet it grounds out in concrete practices that we know how to do and why they work. This is a functional bridge joining descriptive adult development and bottoms-up relational practices, a bridge leading to the meta-(modern/rational/systemic) way of being, and IMHO a treasure of great value if we can share it well.
Happy new year. As we begin our 3rd year of practice together at Intentional Society, looking forward I see the same fog of complexity we've been sailing into the whole while. The only thing I know for sure about this year is that it won't be a replay of last year.
We have more self-transforming-culture exploration to do (with really interesting implications). We have energy toward expanding our community size and the ecosystem of activities underneath our umbrella. We have more connections to make between inner and outer worlds. We have more depth and range to navigate in our relationships. But in all of those, the territory itself will guide us, one step at a time.
Members, you'll receive the Season 9 Registration form soon. See you on the 8th.
Newcomers, to join in this adventure you can click here to register for our next orientation video call on Saturday, January 7th at 1:00-1:55pm Pacific Standard Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC).
Readers who stay readers, thanks for following along with this little stream of words, whatever they mean to you.
Happy new year and may you relate to everything it brings with fluidity and skillful capacity.
Cheers,
James