IS: Being With It All
Upcoming open events:
- Saturday October 19 - Practice Dojo: Being With It All #1
Calls start at 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Community calls for Season 16 run every Sunday through December 22.
Hurricanes. Wars. Election season. Climate. AI.
Cancer. Divorce. Job loss. Aging. Stress.
There's a lot going on, in the world and in our lives. Do we close ourselves off in defense, turn away, shut down? What about:
Art and music. New love. Entrepreneurship. Deep friendships. Bucket list adventures. Appreciating our gifts and savoring life itself.
If we armor ourselves enough against the grief and discomfort, we also shut out the joy and delight. There's a dial, metaphorically, labeled "sensitivity" and turning it down leads to depression, while turning it up can lead to overwhelm. Where on that dial do we find healthy energized aliveness?
I don't think it's actually a setting on the sensitivity dial: I think it's found on the receiver side of that signal, in our capacity to "be with it" all.
We can find choice and freedom in the space between stimulus and response. In this open Practice Dojo series, we will practice a way-of-being that welcomes reality as it is without giving up our care or agency. We'll face some intense (negatively and positively) topics and support each other in becoming better able to Be With It All - expanding our capacity to hold grief and gratitude, acceptance and desire, powerlessness and agency, without losing ourselves in the torrent of stimulus in modern life.
We'll meet five times, every other Saturday:
- October 19th
- November 2nd
- November 16th
- November 30th
- December 14th
You can register once and then "Add to Calendar" for the whole series. Let's grow bigger hearts together, with more room to to hold and more love to give!
Cheers,
James