Matthew, I constantly feel I'm on the same wavelength. These words today: "At the same time, I’m torn: Where does a healthy impulse to transcend polarisation by including people with very different views shade into complicity with harm? How can we know where to draw that line? What do parallels with past moments in history have to teach? What don’t I know that I don’t know?"
Thank you for being you. I will join one of your gatherings, I know I will. K.
thank you Kathryn! great to hear you feel some resonance with these words! This question of hosting polarity, and all the questions that arise from that, has been a core theme in our training with Thomas these past three days. Fortuitious timing.
Thanks Matthew. I love hearing about your experiences. I feel like it connects me to the same fields of resource that you are connected to, which is supportive.
These words are also resonant in what I have been walking with in the last months. "At the same time, I’m torn: Where does a healthy impulse to transcend polarisation by including people with very different views shade into complicity with harm? How can we know where to draw that line? What do parallels with past moments in history have to teach? What don’t I know that I don’t know?"
I especially love the last question, “what don’t I know that I don’t know?” I was recently in a situation where someone was strongly asserting that we need to draw a line and take action (not host something that was arising in the space), and when I honestly felt into that expression, I felt a lack of flow. I really longed in that moment for the capacity in the group space to be strong enough/coherent enough to host all that was arising in everyone involved. I felt an unmet potential trying to rise through the hosting and digesting of all perspectives that were arising, but it didn’t get realized, because not everyone present could host the level of discomfort that arose in hosting a radically different perspective than their own. I had a sense that if we could slow down and process at the emotional level, the different threads that were arising, rather than trying to figure it out at the level of content, clarity and wise action would arise as a natural outcome of that digesting. But at any rate, I appreciate knowing that others are walking with these questions at the same time and that there are group fields gathering around these questions and exploring in this way.
Tracy, wow thank you for that beautifully precise description of the group process you witnessed. I have been experiencing a group field that has been digesting significant polarity -- and not fragmenting - in the past few days. I felt "clarity and wise action" arise in these moments. And I'm still walking the question of where do I "draw a line and take action." So grateful to be hosting these questions together.
Matthew, I constantly feel I'm on the same wavelength. These words today: "At the same time, I’m torn: Where does a healthy impulse to transcend polarisation by including people with very different views shade into complicity with harm? How can we know where to draw that line? What do parallels with past moments in history have to teach? What don’t I know that I don’t know?"
Thank you for being you. I will join one of your gatherings, I know I will. K.
thank you Kathryn! great to hear you feel some resonance with these words! This question of hosting polarity, and all the questions that arise from that, has been a core theme in our training with Thomas these past three days. Fortuitious timing.
Thanks Matthew. I love hearing about your experiences. I feel like it connects me to the same fields of resource that you are connected to, which is supportive.
These words are also resonant in what I have been walking with in the last months. "At the same time, I’m torn: Where does a healthy impulse to transcend polarisation by including people with very different views shade into complicity with harm? How can we know where to draw that line? What do parallels with past moments in history have to teach? What don’t I know that I don’t know?"
I especially love the last question, “what don’t I know that I don’t know?” I was recently in a situation where someone was strongly asserting that we need to draw a line and take action (not host something that was arising in the space), and when I honestly felt into that expression, I felt a lack of flow. I really longed in that moment for the capacity in the group space to be strong enough/coherent enough to host all that was arising in everyone involved. I felt an unmet potential trying to rise through the hosting and digesting of all perspectives that were arising, but it didn’t get realized, because not everyone present could host the level of discomfort that arose in hosting a radically different perspective than their own. I had a sense that if we could slow down and process at the emotional level, the different threads that were arising, rather than trying to figure it out at the level of content, clarity and wise action would arise as a natural outcome of that digesting. But at any rate, I appreciate knowing that others are walking with these questions at the same time and that there are group fields gathering around these questions and exploring in this way.
Tracy, wow thank you for that beautifully precise description of the group process you witnessed. I have been experiencing a group field that has been digesting significant polarity -- and not fragmenting - in the past few days. I felt "clarity and wise action" arise in these moments. And I'm still walking the question of where do I "draw a line and take action." So grateful to be hosting these questions together.
Beautiful.