May 9, 2024

IS: IS ecosystem mid-season status

Upcoming open events:

• Saturday, May 11: Exploratory Series session #3 — Alexander Technique with Michael Ashcroft
• Friday, May 17: Open-to-all Office Hours

all start @ 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). S14 Core Calls on Sundays for members run every week through June 23.

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What's going on in the IS ecosystem:

• Alexander Technique this Saturday! Michael says we’ll be exploring how to investigate and navigate the qualities of attention, awareness and habitual patterns of psychophysical tension in service of your self-unfolding.
• Also, our friends at Life Itself are hosting a Second Renaissance mapping hackathon starting tomorrow (Friday to Saturday) if you'd care to help out with some research - no experience required.
• An inaugural Stewardship Circle has been formed with a charter of piloting governance and establishing future governance patterns for IS on the arc from founder control to community self-ownership. "Should IS incorporate as a non-profit?" is on the docket.
• The core membership of IS is halfway through a "flotilla" series of small-group pods independently doing case work practice for each member. Organized around emergent life-relevant themes, these pods are finding that case work continues to be a rewarding foundational practice type.
• Intentional Ventures' founding team has been sensing into the possibilities and each other in its first few weeks. Future updates to come as we further self-organize, but it's good to stay attuned to going at the speed of trust.

Questions? Did I miss anything? Replies to this email will reach me.

Cheers,
James