Collective
Emergence
The questions and statements below were woven together with the words of individuals who gathered in collective emergence to explore ways of actualizing a shared vision of interbeing.
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We are creating something together from a shared longing to reconnect with the Earth and to pay attention to what she wants and needs. We are stewards and caretakers of the planet, part of something bigger.
What do we really want?
What are we really open for?
What can we really honestly stand for without running away?
What is possible if we invest in transforming beliefs, doing inner work and taking responsibility?
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We trust that something uniquely wants to be birthed through us. The nature of emergence is to be in the moment and to allow for creative exploration and solutions. When we do not force things to happen, but allow them to happen, we become conduits through which something new can emerge. Instead of strategizing, we can trust that the solutions or the practical parts will come if and when they are needed.
How do we not force things to happen, but allow things to happen?
What wants to emerge and how do we trust that, how do we deeply listen to that?
How do we be in a space of paradox and unknown?
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What arises in our relationships is reflective of what is happening in the collective. This work is about healing the wound of separation in community and finding a true, loving experience.
Inevitably conflict happens when we are in community, when we are collaborating in the messy mystery. In a collective created with trust and authenticity that is willing to experiment, willing to ask what is our longing- there is so much we can create.
How do we be together in relationships that really serve?
Is there a relationship technology to develop?
Can the container of a singular relationship between two individuals carry out to a larger circle?
How do we be in tension more than in conflict?
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There is history and pain, and there are emotions, and different perspectives. We are going to navigate our clumsy way with how to work with this material so we can start to unfold or release some of the tension. We can learn from the anxiety, discomfort and awkwardness. We can empower ourselves rather than beat up on ourselves. We can make the experience sacred, while moving forward towards who we want to be. Underneath it all, we want to connect and live in ways that are respectful to all of life.
What does it mean to have multiple different groups, cultures, and types of land?
How do we start to unfold or release some of the existing divisions?
How do we live in ways that we would want everyone to be living?
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Our greatest resource is the potential of the group field. This involves building trust, perhaps in small communities first so that eventually humanity can trust one another financially and otherwise. At a deep fundamental level, humans have the capacity to be altruistic. We’re a social species - generosity and community living are part of our nature. When you get the experience of that generosity, it opens something up.
The more we are in community, feeling love and connection, the less we need material objects. Reconnecting with our hearts, the natural world, and community can give us the safety we currently look for in accumulating money.
How do we reverse working more and more only to have more and more?
What would it take for us as humans to actually trust each other?
What does it mean to receive money and operate in an emergent, trust-based way?
Can our individual and communitarian shifts have an impact on our bigger structures?
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In connection with the Earth, we can develop the intuition that will guide us to the places where we are supposed to be. We can consider the ways in which we are needed as well as how we are enriched. Not just what does the land do for us and what do we get from it, but where can we contribute. Following where and how the relationship is the most mutually beneficial. We are healed when we are on the land and the land is healed by us nurturing and restoring it. Our contribution back to the land might be to do the healing it asks within us.
What if we were supported to go where we are called and to give energy, to create, to build?
Not just what does it do for us and what do we get from it, but what can we contribute?
Is anywhere really safe, and what rights do I have to be in the safe place after my culture, my life has been about consumption?
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It’s about trusting the flow and the unfolding of life. It takes an enormous amount of patience. But, it does not mean that nothing happens or that we stay in the amorphous. It is more about what feels really alive in the present, going at the pace of what is happening. Whatever is going to emerge and is meant to be will happen when it is the right time.
What would it look like to live in ways that would be more natural?
How can we tune into what the Earth wants and listen to that?
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When people are in their last years of life, what do they say, what are their regrets, what is their wisdom? And, what is most important for our lives? Perhaps, it is how deeply we love. Someone would die really happy if they lived in a way that they were doing the thing that naturally came from them, that lit them up, that spoke to their heart, that truly contributed to others, and helped to heal other people, other communities and they could see the impact. That would be a beautiful way to love really deeply.
How deeply can we love?
How deeply can we love a place?
How can I love more?
How can I love bigger?