Collective

Creating the field for mutual evolution and belonging

The collective dimension recognizes that our individual wholeness and collective wholeness are inseparable. As we awaken and develop as individuals, we contribute to the emergence of collective wisdom, intelligence, and capacity for transformation that transcends what any individual could achieve alone. There is a paradox in this, because this collective capacity is also needed to help us grow and awaken. So we co-evolve, co-emerge together. 

When someone is considering joining one of our programs at some point there's always a version of the question: "Can I belong here? Can I be myself here?" 

The first answer is: yes, you can belong here, because we're holding a context that's wide open. But the deeper invitation is: come with us and discover what kind of collective we need to liberate ourselves, and let's create it together, continuously. Each collective is a completely unique process because of every individual’s unfolding that's part of it. There's a developmental journey for both individuals and the collective, and you never know where the collective will go in its own emergent journey.

In order to work with ourselves both individually and collectively, we learn to cultivate the capacities for love and truthfulness that allow for a deeper relationship to what is, and what is wanting to emerge. Love and truthfulness means expressing care and compassion and inclusion with and for one another, as well as bringing in your own real experience, which can include addressing tensions and bringing in differences.

We also learn how collectives and cultures are shaped and how each of us and our collective patterns are shaping us. These patterns in relational life aren't always conscious or visible. We engage with practices that help make visible the ways we are shaping each other and shaping the collective so we can open a freer space of choice and creativity. We risk surfacing what's not yet been spoken so we can open into deeper levels of knowing each other, of co-creating each other, co-liberating one another.

This includes collective shadow work—bringing into practice the ways you're perceiving one another and the collective that are limiting, the ways we have judgments or views that can distort our understanding and also shape how that person can even show up. We take the risk together of opening this up at the level of the group.

What you might discover is that this level of honesty and intimacy is more liberating than anything else you do. By being open with one another with love, self-responsibility, honesty, and truthfulness, we can look at all that's in the room that's shaping each other. You can choose to let it go with and for each other. The very thing that might evoke hesitation about that level of honesty and intimacy is the very thing that helps people move into deeper ground of trust and freedom with each other.

We are cultivating a certain quality of relationship that supports both individual expression and collective coherence—a way that the group of humans becomes its own kind of being that can listen for collective resonance, mutual understanding, and the future that wants to emerge through that particular constellation of people.

This collective openness is essential for a deeper collective awakening that doesn’t bypass the patterns that exist in our relating. From here a deeper intelligence can come to move through the collective as the collective awakens. The subtle, relational territory is seen as an expression of this deeper awakened wholeness. 

This is an edge of practice—allowing that deeper sense of unfolding, that deeper intelligence that comes from your shared ground, to move through you not just individually but collectively. There is a healing, awakening and belonging that reconnects us to our tribal nature and prepares us to cultivate a healthier culture for all.

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