IS: List of parts in motion
Upcoming open events:
- Friday September 13 - Office Hours, perhaps with a wider-angle-lens.
Calls start at 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Core Community Season 15 calls run Sundays through Sept 22.
As summer winds down and the days start shortening once again, our deciduous trees are heralding fall with gentle color shifts. (It's not just evergreens here.) The rest of my household attends or teaches school, so it's a big daily-experiential shift for me that we're back into school-year cadence. That fall rhythm brings me a "time to get to work!" vibe and as we close up Q3 (our 15th season) this month, I want to capture a sense of various things-in-motion inside the IS web:
- After doing some Communal Reverie with Sam, this last week we ran an exploration into "daydreaming" and what happens when we connect our imaginations with our desires.
- After running three Connection Labs, I'll say I really enjoyed the format and the co-learning feel of those sessions. I look forward to other potential "labs" in the future, and learning from other lead investigators.
- I'm polishing up an "Alien Invasion" game of perspective-taking as the last stretch into our "communal imaginal" arc this week. Greetings, we come in peace.
- The Arts in IS crew has been crafting songs and poems together, exploring these forms of expression within the cultural space of IS.
- The IV (Intentional Ventures) founding team keeps getting closer to the relational-economic-squad organizing shape and closer to launching some 3-month experiments balancing individual-squad-ecosystem objectives.
- Does the Practice Dojo want to blossom into a Community Center? Scheming is afoot towards some kind of "relational practices coalition" very much TBD toward a Q1 launch.
- Stay tuned for an open IS event at the start of October — something like an "open house" across the gamut of IS activities and opportunities? Design details TBD.
- The Second Renaissance is forming up and its calendar has four different types of events on offer.
Being who/how we want to be. Being the culture that we want to live in. Acting in/on the world around us with wisdom and integrity. Relating at every scale with beautiful expanded awareness. All it takes is to hold on to the intention of the universe already present inside us.
Cheers,
James