What We're Doing

The idea is to create a minimum viable structure where we can gather the right co-creative folks and get playful with the Mystery.

For the first week, this will probably look like a simple shared morning practice, a more creative shared evening practice, and leaving room in the middle for a shifting schedule of things like art, music, relational practice, solo time, time to break off in pairs/groups and wander around, paired practices, etc.

By the second week, things will likely get more free-form, building on what’s happened before and letting it take new shape and deepen however it wants to.

If I was running it today, the theme would be "Going Together.” This points at how inner work is often seen as a solo venture, meditative states are often seen as an individual thing happening inside your own body and head — but it is possible to go to these spaces together. And I’d like to open more of that.

Practices are likely to include things like:

• Embodied open awareness practice

• Shared imaginal practice

• An opening and closing ritual where we all make something together at the beginning, then take it apart at the end. In between, it acts as a center to hold the group's energy alongside the divine energy.

• You find a tree to befriend and meditate with for the duration

• Some yagnas (feeding a fire with pieces of your old self to fuel energy for en emerging self)

• A creative practice of your choosing, whether poems or drawing or music, whatever — but a pretty regular stream of creative flow, without getting too in your head about it needing to be good or perfect

• Something loosely akin to Circling. Some kind of group container with a set of norms around open, genuine expression. We’ll be guided in this by the only Circling leader I’ve ever met who made me feel like there’s something deeply precious and sacred in Circling.

• And of course expect some impromptu magic/ritual stuff. Stones, spaces, trees, and water all tend to speak to me and tell me stuff that would be good to do with them, and I'd love to open that up to the group, to share the practice of ritual as both an art form and a transformative practice.

Think of this as a ritual space for collectively deepening into the Mystery. We want to approach with both a deep sense of play and a deep sense of earnestness — which involves shared practice and intentions around opening up our awareness, our perceptions, our creativity, our agency, and our sense of the sacred. It also involves unstructured vibing time with cool people who are capable of holding all that shared stuff together.

Want to Come?

If you want to participate and contribute to this sense of play, earnestness, Mystery, opening, and sacredness, get in touch with me on Twitter and/or fill out this application.

We want to make something with you, rather than for you — to co-create something together, as a group. I'd really like to see what happens when I lay out a bit of a structure and theme and some directions to play in and then let all of us loose to see what comes out of it. What our combined intuitions and inspirations come up with that mine alone wouldn't have.