Upcoming events:

• Friday Dec 19: IS Connection Call
• Sunday Dec 21: Community Hub call 20.12 (final session of 2025)
• Jan 3/4/10/11: Beyond Goals Intensive

Last week's newsletter was "Here we are, we're doing it" and the Community Hub session title was "Uncertainment" (with special guest Lisa Norton).

The name of the new dojo is (imaginary drumroll...) Relational Dojo!. It's official now because the team bought the domain name a few days ago. 😄 We'll get a website up soon, but are launching signups today.

Context reminder: This is a merger of IS Practice Dojo and Communication Dojo joining forces to create a platform for us and other wonderful practice hosts (e.g. our friend Sam Hinds, as you'll see below) to share resources and support a broad and vibrant community of practitioners and learners.

So what's in this space starting in January? Here are the first four practice groups we're launching with:

T-group (sign up here)

T-group is a learning group. Your task is to learn about yourself and others through interaction with others. Articulate your experience moment-to-moment as clearly and as accurately as possible to other group members. Articulate what is happening within you, and between you and other participants, in the present moment. Name things that influence your presence and tune into what’s influencing others’ presence. There will be facilitators present to help support your practice.

If you are unfamiliar with T-group, come to the first session- we will make time to onboard you. If you are familiar, you’ve found your people!! We ask new participants to the Dojo to please watch our introductory video, demo, and read our Quicksheet.

We build a cohort together through our intentional practice with one another. We don’t ask that you commit to all of the sessions during this Hike (though we’d sure love to see you at every session). In our first session, we put special effort into forming our cohort, and in the final session we put special effort into closing our cohort, so please try to make these two sessions at least!

T-group Practice Dates (co-hosted by Justin, Carol, and friends): 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pacific Time (PT) on Tuesdays [January 13th (Opening session), January 27th, February 10th, February 24th, March 10th, & March 24th]

T-group Seminar

A space to discuss all things T-group. It gives us time to explore questions like: How do I know if I'm practicing T-group "right?" What's the potential I'm sensing here? How do I realistically apply this in my work or in my family? This is a place to talk about how to apply it in all of our relationships in life!

T-group Seminar Dates: January 14th, February 11th, Wednesday, March 11th, at 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time

Bohm Dialogue (sign up here)

Bohm Dialogue practice may be the hardest to describe or define, compared to other dialogue practices. In some ways, Bohm Dialogue practice inherently defies structure, script, or definition. It invites us to pay attention to how our mind (broadly defined) moves within ourselves and with others in the dialogue. Thus, we not only pay attention to the “content” of our thinking, but also “how” we think and communicate. The main purpose of Bohm Dialogue is to surface in-coherence within and between us, explore wholeness, and practice cohering across divides, i.e., real and perceived differences that separate individuals and divide humanity. For those who are new to the practice, here’s a more in-depth introduction of the practice.

Bohm Dialogue Practice Dates (Hosted by Carol and friends): 10:30am - 12:00pm PT (Pacific Time) on Fridays (Jan 16th, Jan 30th, Feb 13th, Feb 27th, Mar 13th, & Mar 27th)

Being With It All (sign up here)

Life is a lot sometimes, isn't it? Everything happens so much. Everything everywhere all at once. Atrocities around the world, violence in our neighborhood, all the way to frailties of our bodies. Sacredness weaves its way through the suffering, and joy, yet we often find numbing and distraction to be easier than facing the extremes.

There's a secret to peace in the midst of everything: to let it be. To be with it all, we welcome the reality of what is, the is-ness of what is true — and we welcome our own experience, without pushing away or clinging. When we practice being, together, we find our capacity expanding. Fear recedes. Turbulence calms. Our hearts beat on, grounding our connection to life. Being With It All is a simple radical practice of acceptance kindled in the shared space between our open hearts.

Being With It All Practice dates (Hosted by James): January 17, February 7, February 28, March 21 at 1pm Pacific Time for 90 minutes

Communal Reverie (sign up here)

Communal Reverie is a practice designed to support the cultivation of a capacity that I’ve called collective imaginal attunement. Together, we practice tuning in to the felt sense of the intersubjective field while assuming a posture of hospitality toward the deep imagination, welcoming the autonomous expression of its archetypal intelligence. What typically unfolds is a mutually disclosed collective imaginal experience.

These cooperative forays into collective imaginal attunement can evoke a wide array of experiences: mystery, beauty, wonder, and sometimes weirdness.

While prior experience with mindfulness, energy body attunement, imaginal practices, and we-space practices like Collective Presencing are a major asset to this practice, the only requirements for participation in these sessions are a stance of curiosity, open receptivity, and readiness to adhere to the basic guidelines of practice, which will be discussed at the outset.

See website and introductory practice primer for more details.

Communal Reverie Practice dates (Hosted by Sam): January 10th, February 7th, March 7th at 10:00am-11:30am PT

One more time, you can sign up here for any of these practice groups.

First session dates:

• Communal Reverie: Saturday, Jan 10th
• T-group: Tuesday, Jan 13th
• T-group Seminar: Wednesday, Jan 14th
• Bohm Dialogue: Friday, Jan 16th
• Being With It All: Saturday, Jan 17th

All of these are existing groups, run by trusted hosts, free/dāna/gift access, open to newcomers, and the Relational Dojo stewards look forward to adding (non-exclusively) more groups over time. Happy Holidays, and maybe we'll see you at the Dojo in 2026!