IS: The year of...
Upcoming open events:
- The "Being With It All" series is complete. Happy holidays!
- Saturday January 4 - Office Hours immediately preceding the start of next season Jan 5
IS Calls start at 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 9pm UTC). Community calls for Season 16 run every Sunday through December 22.
2025 may be the year of collaboration for Intentional Society — with other relational-developmental practice spaces, with the next Limicon, within Second Renaissance, and elsewhere. There's been a "thickening of the space" and more and more collaborative threads are strengthening.
Or 2025 may (also) be the year of coalescing? Several physical events across the space are in their incubation phase, and however many come to fruition it seems likely to be a new high water mark for bringing together change agents, contributors, and practitioners, with the connective and catalyzing energy that gatherings bring.
Does 2025 want to be the year of intentional scaling? (Much relating doesn't scale "up", but perhaps "out"...) I genuinely don't know, and will be taking a few weeks over the holidays to ponder this and some other potential moves. We tend to be "led by sensing the pull" more than a "push" mindset, but the landscape of opportunities may be pulling us there!
Will 2025 be a year of global-level disruption or emergence or both? Will we want to move faster or interact more directly with large systems? Food for thought. For now, it's time to slow down into the contemplative gentleness of the holidays. But slow is smooth and smooth is fast, and if we smooth/clarify our intentions and directions, so many possibilities are available to us...
May you sense your own direction in the stillness.
Cheers,
James
P.S. Will be skipping this newsletter next week — talk to you in 2025!