IS: Circling (and Limicon!)
Upcoming open events:
- Sunday, Feb 11th: Practice Series session #5 — Circling
- Monday, Feb 12th: Debrief Call (same link)
all start times 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC)
Limicon 2024 is a month-long emergent online convention for the Liminal Web scene and anyone liminal-curious. I view Intentional Society as being solidly within this meta-network of people, organizations, and ideas, and have met a lot of friends and allies in this space. If you're on this list because IS is interesting to you, then I think there's a good chance you can also "find the others" with similar passions in this scene.
Starts March 6. Go first with me if you're willing, to seed the who's going spiral as it gets more widely known. I am not an organizer, just an eager attender who wants to meet you (and others) there! (Also if $25 represents more than token cost for you, let me know - I'm happy to buy anyone on this list a ticket.)
Okay, back to IS. Last week was T-Group and this week is Circling, and together they are one of the only specific kinds of practice that I actively do and lead regularly, years after learning them. To me they're about "welcoming" (all emotions) and "connection" and something about perspective-taking on self and other.
Circling (I'll just stick with that label) is where your present moment experience is fully welcome as it is. Circling encourages strong self-ownership of your experience, and care for impact on and being seen by others. Circling metabolizes "conflict" energy into insight and connection better than anything else I know. It follows aliveness and desire, and trains integrity and authenticity.
In sum, Circling (or presence-welcoming-connection-perspective practice) is the one practice I would pick, if I had to pick only one relational practice. I can't bring its norms and culture as assumptions of everyone around me in wider society, but if IS culture feels at least partly "almost like circling all the time" then that alone is-and-will-be a great success in my book.
Come practice and/or learn it this Sunday, if you're game to play! (access here if you don't already have it)
Cheers,
James