Covergence

At the end of last month I helped run and attend the Voice Dialogue International Convergence in Richmond Hill, London. Voice Dialogue is a core technique that I use both personally and professionally to foster greater insight and understanding into self. What an amazing gathering of people! Eighty folk from ten different countries from all sorts of backgrounds. Coaches, psychotherapists, drama therapists, artists, bodyworkers, an incredible wealth of warmth, knowledge and skill.

As a team we had to hold the space for the group to unfold into their learning and we used a process called open learning. In open learning space we encourage the group to choose and create their topics and open them for discussion in groups of any denomination. People are free to attend or not attend, leave groups if their energy and attention isn't fully resonant and engaged, with respect and develop each topic the next day if they like. I've never been involved in such an unstructured and organic process before and it worked incredibly well with these people.

It left me wondering, "how much do I allow for the organic unfolding of my process, my life, how much can I trust my intuition, my direct experience of living?" So often the planning (which we need) the organising (which has to occur) and the shifting (a lot goes on) takes us away from the naked direct experiencing of living. Futurising life we hop from task to task and inherently that is stressful. Even whilst achieving, progressing and tick-listing we can not breathe fully, be present and embody who we are in the moment.

The people I worked with are touchy-feely world champions. Incredible empaths, powerful "being" people content to rest in and abide with presence, felt energy and contact with other and self. I felt like I developed a whole new level of softness and deep listening spending time with these incredible folk. What a blessing. How tiring as well creating this "container" to house all this energy! Very very rewarding.

I did sitting meditation this morning, zazen style, just sitting and in the twenty minutes I felt on occasion the one taste, the deep connection to self and then the letting go of self into edge of bliss and emptiness. Fleeting. Timeless. Beautiful. Continuing into the day I have that trace of stillness, that trace of connection to deep empty abiding, so full.

Silence is golden...How do you experience silence, stillness, emptiness, form? How do you "roll with that!"

Regards

Dan