A Focalizing Weekend & The World Cafe
Hello February! A quirky first month leaves me in an interesting place.
For those who’ve been following the “family saga” my folks and my dear friend Mary are all at home convalescing in their own particular styles. Your interest about their progress was appreciated.
Since the first NYC Focalizing weekend in NYC at January’s end, I’ve been crashing from all the work that went on to produce the event. The build up, presentation and aftermath to this demonstration of a “hidden order” to inform our human journeys absolutely exhausted me. My energy is just now beginning to come back.
Even though I had the blessing and real-time support of six colleagues (Nicholas Cimorelli, Tiger Benford, George Russell, Ana Venezia, Matthew Whaley and Scott Whipple) I was anxious about bringing together 40 people and Focalizing the aligning of the energies of 40 disparate souls. I’m quite confident of my abilities with Focalizing sessions with individuals and existing groups all the while creating space for an intention to be realized. However, now we were going to have 40 people from all walks of life who want to understand this new process I’ve been developing better and who may not necessarily have shared a unified intention. My heart and soul felt confident while my cognitive mind set me astir. It was a paradoxical place to be.
In retrospect, we realized that the space for the workshop was not optimal. Yet just a little resonance from Tiger’s percussion magic blended with George’s suggested movements and the physical surroundings were transcended. We were then able to individually bring forth (privately or shared) our individual intentions that we wanted to have energized over the weekend. We engaged important questions with our own innate intelligence at The World Café where we could then safely share our inner illuminations and stirrings.
We spent two days bringing into play the four elements of any successful ritual (including Focalizing) and by creating an in-the-moment evolving weave we blended the key understandings of Focalizing with movement, sound resonance, and deep conversations in invisibly linked world café settings. Our group (or community) Focalizing process was also informed by Otto Scharmer’s research and observations with his “U Theory” developed at Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology (MIT) supporting organization and societal transformation (and popularized in the book Presence).
All I can share with you now is that on Sunday afternoon all participants were reporting experiencing new possibilities that had not occurred to them previously. For several people I have spoken with since, these possibilities and intentions have begun to manifest in real-time. This is very cool and I feel immense gratitude to be part of this new energetic field that is enveloping us.
As the dust continues to settle I look forward to whatever comes next.
For those who’ve been following the “family saga” my folks and my dear friend Mary are all at home convalescing in their own particular styles. Your interest about their progress was appreciated.
Since the first NYC Focalizing weekend in NYC at January’s end, I’ve been crashing from all the work that went on to produce the event. The build up, presentation and aftermath to this demonstration of a “hidden order” to inform our human journeys absolutely exhausted me. My energy is just now beginning to come back.
Even though I had the blessing and real-time support of six colleagues (Nicholas Cimorelli, Tiger Benford, George Russell, Ana Venezia, Matthew Whaley and Scott Whipple) I was anxious about bringing together 40 people and Focalizing the aligning of the energies of 40 disparate souls. I’m quite confident of my abilities with Focalizing sessions with individuals and existing groups all the while creating space for an intention to be realized. However, now we were going to have 40 people from all walks of life who want to understand this new process I’ve been developing better and who may not necessarily have shared a unified intention. My heart and soul felt confident while my cognitive mind set me astir. It was a paradoxical place to be.
In retrospect, we realized that the space for the workshop was not optimal. Yet just a little resonance from Tiger’s percussion magic blended with George’s suggested movements and the physical surroundings were transcended. We were then able to individually bring forth (privately or shared) our individual intentions that we wanted to have energized over the weekend. We engaged important questions with our own innate intelligence at The World Café where we could then safely share our inner illuminations and stirrings.
We spent two days bringing into play the four elements of any successful ritual (including Focalizing) and by creating an in-the-moment evolving weave we blended the key understandings of Focalizing with movement, sound resonance, and deep conversations in invisibly linked world café settings. Our group (or community) Focalizing process was also informed by Otto Scharmer’s research and observations with his “U Theory” developed at Massachusetts’s Institute of Technology (MIT) supporting organization and societal transformation (and popularized in the book Presence).
All I can share with you now is that on Sunday afternoon all participants were reporting experiencing new possibilities that had not occurred to them previously. For several people I have spoken with since, these possibilities and intentions have begun to manifest in real-time. This is very cool and I feel immense gratitude to be part of this new energetic field that is enveloping us.
As the dust continues to settle I look forward to whatever comes next.
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