We’ve Launched!
A small, strong group of founding members came together to plant our seeds for the Tribe in Transition Transformational Practice Community on 11:11:11. This timing was pure synchronicity and reflects the soul-inspired nature of the creation.
For me, 11 is a soul number and I’ve built my membership fee structure around multiples of 11. I had intended to launch months earlier but it’s a project that has moved in its own time and demanded my determined focus and commitment. The decision to meet at 11 am on 11.11 was a last-minute serendipity.
Building the Home of Your Dreams
For the last eighteen months I’ve been an architect designing the container for the community, labouring to get the foundations in place. If you’ve ever watched the tv show, Grand Designs, you’ll know what it takes to build the home of your dreams. The effort, the frustration, the stress, the time, the money, being out in all weathers, brought to a halt by rain, mud, snow, frost, waiting for the windows to arrive.
I’ve been building my own grand design, not in physical reality but within the changing seasons and mud of my own interior landscape – my doubts, my existential questions, my desires to be doing something more relaxing, my limitations.
I’ve always felt I was creating in relationship with Soul – that there is a bigger intelligence behind me – or in front of me – encouraging me on. And yet there have been so many times when I’ve come up against my limitations and slid to a standstill. And I’ve asked; do I really want to do this? Is this good for my well-being? Each time, the answer has been YES. And so, I’ve renewed my commitment and carried on. Not because, I’ve had hundreds of people clamouring at the threshold, waiting to come in. But because, in some way I don’t fully understand, this is my soul work, and it’s helping me to develop the skills and qualities I need to be a fully contributing part of the great interweaving of conscious evolution.
The Slow Process of Embodiment
The attention to detail and the slow building of the container is the process of embodiment – bringing the dream, the vision down to earth – bringing down the music. It’s not an exciting, sexy, expansive, blissful process but I’m finding peace and fulfilment as I grow patience and the capacity to attend to detail – this, here, now, what is given. Choosing to put my attention here, rather than feeding the lack of what I think I want or need, or following my whim to skip off to somewhere that might be more beguiling.
Shifting Identity
In this process of repeated surrender and renewed choice, I’ve felt confused about who I am becoming. The last chapter of my life story was a quest to discover who I am as a spiritual being and I identified as a free spirit, a visionary and a creative. My current life chapter began ten years ago with loss and grief and is about discovering what it means to be a human being and how to integrate the spiritual being with the human. If the last chapter was about freedom, this one is about response-ability. Who am I in relation to everything I see in our world? How do I respond to the call of soul and the breathing of the cosmos? How do I participate and support the interconnectedness of life?
This surrendering into embodiment has often felt like a loss of freedom and a loss of identity. But I sense that we have reached the point in our collective transformation where we need to start bringing the vision for a better world into the earth plane. This can only happen as the layers of the egoic mind peel away. And one of those egoic layers is attachment.
If I want to bring forth a soul-inspired project, a project which is authentic and informed by a lifetime of experience, wisdom and skills – then I need to let go of my attachment to outcomes and surrender my timelines – my ideas about how it should all unfold. Instead, I need to keep showing up every day, focused and intentional, in alignment with my purpose, and at the same time be spacious, open, patient, grounded, responsive and grateful. When made as a conscious choice this isn’t a loss of freedom but a discovery of a new kind of freedom- a freedom embodied in service to the whole.
The Interwoven Threads of Soul Work
The inner work of conscious evolution or co-creating with the emergent process of transformation is one thread of our soul work and it is intimately interwoven with healing and authentic creativity. This is the holy trinity of transformation – creativity, healing and the skills of conscious evolution. The three threads are so intimately intertwined that when I focus on a creative project which is an expression of my life experience and unique gifts, I also need to attend to healing – to letting go of the old story and everything that limits the expression of soul-inspired authentic creation.
Healing moves in its own time and tends to be a slow, gradual process which can’t be hurried. And this can create a tension with the urgency of the evolutionary impulse. As a conscious human being, I am caught between the slow tending to the healing process which is grounded in the earth of the body, and in the roots and history of the collective consciousness, and in the damp, fertile soil of nature. And on the other hand I feel the pull of the creative urgency of the evolutionary intelligence which comes from the vast, infinite cosmos. I am a human soul, with all the limitations of an egoic mind, trying to find a way to hold these energies. It truly is a heroic mission. And it is through this holding of creative tensions that transformation arises.
This is an emergent process. My job is to show up, do what I can do and listen for guidance – and the rest is not my business. The Grand Designer is so much bigger than me – and the joy, as always, is in the creation, in the play of experimentation and co-creation.
Does This Make Sense to You?
Can you relate to this sense that we’re in a new stage of our collective creative process? And its about embodiment? And if so, do you know what embodiment is and how to go about it? I’ve laid the foundations for The Tribe in Transition Transformational Practice Community because I know none of us can thrive through this transition alone. Together, its easier and more fun. It was such a relief this week to have others alongside me to breathe life into what has so far been “just an idea”. I haven’t felt so excited for a long time as I was as we sat together, connected by presence, in virtual reality, naming the possibilities that are opening up for us – playfulness, adventure, exploration, and belonging.
We’ll be taking in Founding Members for another few weeks. If you would like more information, or to join us, please message me. And from January onwards there will be possibilities to join at different levels of commitment. Come and join the adventure!
