Stewarding the Emergent

A conversation series on potential, growth, and action in these rapidly changing times

We are living in a time of collective transformation, of initiation and awakening.

There are many challenges as the old paradigm crumbles, alongside possibilities for a radically beautiful new world.

We are being called – from within and without, as individuals and as communities, to change.

To wait, watch, and listen. To invite. To protect what is worth carrying forward from the past and hold and nurture what is emerging.

Each of us, every person alive right now, has a piece of the dream, of the truth. Each of us has a role to play although we have different challenges and different paths to fulfillment. When we cultivate our inner power, authority, and respect for life, we create strong and vibrant community & culture.

And although what we do as persons and as a species, matters, we are in a larger reality, a larger story.

Our Vision and Values

A world in which we can all flourish – humans & everyone else

A culture of life based in reciprocity & ecological relationship.

Respect, care, justice, compassion, creativity, beauty, joy, kinship, community, freedom.

What Stewarding the Emergent means to us

• Stepping beyond the dominant conversation. Trying on different perspectives. Asking different questions.
• Utilizing different ways of knowing, drawing on the wisdom of the body, heart, mind, and soul (embodied experience, intuition, critical thinking, imagination).
• A focus on meaning.
• Listening to different sources and teachers, including the invisible and other than human.
• Apprenticing ourselves to new guides, developing new skills and capacities.
• Attending to what arises up in us personally and in group and community processes.
• Acts of remembering and reclamation. Healing and restoration. Visioning and re-imagining.
• Collective, ancestral and personal trauma work. 
• De-colonizing consciousness through the excavation of inherited myths, concepts, and assumptions. 
• Utilizing the old tools of arts and ritual, story and dream, meditation, breath, movement, plant medicine, and prayer to access and connect with self and others.
• Entertaining new and varied images of wholeness and human being: what and who we are, the role(s) we play, our connection to history/ancestors, land and place, cosmos/other realities, and other people and beings here on planet earth. 
• Allyship.
• Allowing our perspective to evolve and ourselves to be changed.
• Exploring, practicing these skills, and developing the capacity to steward what is emerging together, in community.

Our Central Questions

• How do we stay in a responsive, creative place in the face of uncertainty?
• How do we maintain the necessary safety and where can we place our trust?
• Where is safety in disagreement?
• How do we maintain a sense of our ground while staying open to multiple viewpoints and possibilities?
• What does it mean to steward the potentials in this time?

Our Invitation

As space holders, seekers, and stewards of this conversation, we invite you to experiment, practice, and develop community with us.

Let’s come together with curiosity and compassion to become effective stewards of the emerging potentials of our time.

Join us for quarterly facilitated conversations and guided practice to develop our capacity to steward the emergent.

All are welcome. If our vision and values resonate with you please join us!

These are online gatherings— register here to receive the link.

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