Hosting with the subtle worlds

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Comment by Ursula Hillbrand on March 25, 2013 at 7:07am

An amazing event happend in Brazil in February, Hosting from a Deeper Place. Here is the thread for the discussion so far: http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/hosting-from-a-deeper-pla...

Looking forward to more inquiry and sharing unfolding!

Comment by Ursula Hillbrand on September 11, 2011 at 2:37pm

Last Friday, during our Practice day with our special guests Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea from Peer Spirit and authors of "The Circle Way", and who are re-inventors of the Circle Practice adapted to our times, I did get an answer on the directions of which flow to choose for a circle to go. When opening it, like in a check-in, we go left, because our harts are left, and we go from heart to heart, trying to bring our hearts into the conversation, open up. When we close the circle, during check-out, we take the right, as we want to give from our right hands, into the next right hand, we want to become active and use what we have gained and learned while being in circle. While these are still words of theory which make perfectly sense, it would be interesting to go on with observing and sensing.

Comment by Helen Titchen Beeth on July 27, 2011 at 5:24am

Thank you, Sarah - this is a spectacular piece of writing. I really love how you have woven together some of your most beautiful blog posts into this stunning essay. Much in here to savour.

Comment by Sarah Whiteley on July 26, 2011 at 5:52pm

The Powers of Place Initiative - July PERSPECTIVES - features my short Essay: Power of the Evolutionary Edge
"If you want to understand the power of the evolutionary edge, simply recall the fragility of a stalactite catching the newness of a droplet forming at its tip, having journeyed from ground level - through moss, stone, soil, rock itself - a miraculous slow-motion subterranean journey taking months, years or even thousands of years to create..."

Sarah Whiteley: Powers of Place Initiative Correspondent

Comment by Ursula Hillbrand on June 15, 2011 at 1:59pm

This get's right to the point Ria, not to blindly apply something, but to truly sense what happens. My question was for observations, which we make through sensing, and then verufy what works, or doesn't. There might be moment, one way works, and other situations we feel different. So if any more folks have own, felt observations, please do share them!

Comment by Ria Baeck on June 15, 2011 at 12:59pm

I know  from far away training in the Druid tradition, that the circle is opened in one direction, and at the end of the ritual the circle is closed again in the other direction.

But there is also habit in this... in the southern hemisphere it might be different...

the point is - I guess - not to become rigid about it, but to become aware of what is appropriate on the subtle level.

Comment by Simon d'Orsogna on June 15, 2011 at 9:37am

Thanks for the thread here. Holding it from the other side of the world weaves us together, joins us as if we were never apart. What a thought.

I wondered about the spiral, the circle and other shapes that are deeply expressing what is beyond words - and how they might have a deeper pattern too.

I found myself remembering this from Angeles Arrien - might fit here. It is to me so simple and deeply aesthetic, right feeling...

PreferentialShapesTestWORKSHEET-AArrien.doc

First view the paper, think of all the ways these shapes might be arranged in an order - then to arrange these shapes from those you most like to those you like least (just for now, for today)... then write or draw these down somewhere.

Then,check from about 3min to 7min from this longer video from Angeles presentation-lecture http://vimeo.com/15657160 for the elaboration and expansion of what is figured there - including what is said about spiral, circle...

Subtle energy is held  in place-land, in shape, in how we arrange ourselves around what seeks to be spoken in each moment - in what listens to us listening too.

Comment by Hala Makarem on June 15, 2011 at 7:32am

Sarah, the subtle energy that I read today is: flexibility harmonising equilibrium and peace coming from the east ... something is sprouting and it is in those movements that we sense the beginning of the emergence .. I join all who are intentionally holding space at this moment of time , you are so right "This is the time for space holding like never before" .. and then what shows up is what is necessary to go through the transition ... (Helen, thank you for your insight, I enjoyed reading them)

 

Ursula, what I sensed after reading your inquiry about the clockwise, counterclockwise is an image where

we open up from the east unfolding what wants to emerge going clockwise, and we close from the east enfolding back the emergent vision and discovered identity going counterclockwise ... so it is a dance between unfolding outwards initially, and enfolding the insights inwards closure ... (just a thought and image that showed up) ...

Comment by Helen Titchen Beeth on June 15, 2011 at 5:27am

Sarah, as you were writing this, we were in a preparation call for hosting a large participatory event (as you know... ;-)) - the reality of the place where you are was fully present with us in the space of our call, and will be fully present in the room as we host the 120 people who will show up from all corners of Europe, with a background of working with citizen participation.

There is much that we can learn from what is happening in Greece and Spain.

There is much that can frighten us that is ready to erupt around the edges. That's why it is so important to hold the centre, and to expand out from there.

At the centre is an intention for newness and transformation, in the direction of more listening, more humanity, more heart, more authenticity, more inclusion, more care and compassion, more connection with nature and our living planet.

I feel that since the beginning of this year, I have been holding a vast perimeter, and I can feel that I have been joined by more and more people in that holding.

We are at your backs as you move into Syntagma. At that level of subtle knowing, Sarah, I know that your being physically present there with Maria will help to anchor something sacred in the field. That's what I'm holding on to now.

Comment by Sarah Whiteley on June 15, 2011 at 4:01am

Friends...how can those in the subtle worlds and those who are the 'bridgers' or 'translators' of it, bring this realm of capacity into real work and service.  http://artofhosting.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-place-and-people-call...  Today, people are gathering in Syntagma Square, Athens, to call in newness and transformation.  Already it is 'edgy' and yet, we still must gather.  This is the time for space holding like never before. 

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