IS: Rest Week
Upcoming events:
- Tuesday July 1: The Oasis (plus Ecosystem Mapping afterwards)
- Wednesday July 2: Pre-season IS Connection Call
- Community Hub Season 19 will begin July 6th.
- Sign up now for the Developmental Practice Series!
Last week's newsletter was "Spiritual Development" and last Sunday's Community Hub call was titled "IS 2027".
New shareable mini-blurb for the upcoming series:
Grow beyond your stuckness and access a new layer of living: Starting July 10th, Intentional Society is offering its flagship Developmental Practice Series as a nine-week intensive. Rooted in developmental theory and enacted via interactive relational practices, this is a world-class training with big-hearted vibes, offered absolutely free (limited to 50 registrants). Learn more and sign up here.
I have so much to tell you about, so much stirring — it's wanting both to burst out and to anneal. This is me letting go of a desire to combine comprehensiveness and conciseness into a perfect energetic package of a newsletter tonight.
"Rest Week" refers to our quarterly skip of the Sunday Community Hub call in-between seasons. Jochen and the gang finished up Season 18 in my absence last Sunday - that's 4.5 years of IS calls. But it's also 4.5 years of network weaving and what I'll call "early universe formation", a densification as new lights pop up in the metaphorical galactic core.
Rest Week is (particularly this time) a week of reconsolidation for me — opening up existing patterns, reinterpreting them, and then rewriting them into new patterns of meaning. I'm even sitting with the name: Intentional Society. I'm sitting with those words, their prophetic nature years ago, and what owning that name means in guiding our next unfolding.
The word cloud on my current journal page:
courage - wholeness - circuitry(biointegrated) - earnestness - scale - trust - faith
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We liminal denizens, all of us, we're extending the ragged edge of the very world, don'cha'know. We are the unfolding of life evolving itself into greater capacity and complexity. That entire edge across the whole sweep of history has always been doing what's never been done before. We are the dance of something larger awakening and cohering. No need to get ahead of ourselves, but I see it more each year — and each year I grow across new horizons, becoming more intimate with the expanding universe. What a strange loop of strange loops, and what a joy to be alive in it, as it, be it.
Energetically,
James