Active Pause

In this conversation, Bruce Nayowith talks about Subtle Activism at an experiential level.

As Dr David Nicol describes it, Subtle Activism is applying the wisdom of our inner work to the collective dimension, for collective transformation, rather than the personal domain. Another of his quotes: “Subtle activism can be understood as a set of practices that allow us to connect, in the depths of our being, with our love for the world and our longing for it to reflect the highest potentials of human nature.”

Anytime one engages in a personal growth or healing process, it benefits others around them. What distinguishes Subtle Activism is that one is intentionally working with a larger realm than the personal – the collective is the subject of our attention and care, rather than simply a byproduct of it.

If you are interested in Subtle Activism, here are links you may want to explore:

* The Gaiafield Project. Quoting from their website:The Gaiafield Project promotes the study and practice of subtle activism, which affirms the power of consciousness-based approaches like global meditation and prayer events to support social and planetary transformation.

* HeartMath Institute has done much research in the connections between heart, brain, others, and the Earth. They sponsor science and research pointing to ways that the Earth’s fields, and human fields, interaffect each other.

Also: Summary and Notes from Subtle Activism Summit Sept 8-10, 2015:

* 5 page Summary of TITLES of the talks that Bruce Nayowith attended:

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SAsummary.htm

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SASummary.rtf (downloadable)

* 39 pages of NOTES from the talks that Bruce Nayowith attended:

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SASummitNotes.htm

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SASummitFullnotes.rtf (downloadable)

Since 1987, Bruce Nayowith has been Focusing personally, and to explore other processes that encourage unfolding of individual and systemic potential. These include neurobiology, depth and developmental psychology, whole brain education, NonViolent Communication, and emergent group processes such as Dynamic Facilitation, Open Dialogue, and Family Constellations.

 

Published October 2015

How can we capture the shared implicit? Certainly not by analyzing it to death. Poetry and music can help us transmit the experience of the ineffable. We let ourselves experience whatever resonance the melody and words have for us. It touches something in us, and the experience we have of it is very personal.

At a conference, several of us presented a panel. We wanted to communicate experientially what we called “Shared Field”. So we started with a song – Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen.

Now, it is on this web page you’re reading (recording by Bruce Nayowith). As you listen to it, you may remember that we put it there to give you a sense of what we mean by “shared field”. Or you may be carried away by your own associations with the music and the words. Or…

In other words, what happens here is not perfectly clear communication, in the sense that copying a digital file is a way to perfectly transfer information from one support to another. The implicit field where this communication takes place is more nebulous. It is at the same time inefficient in achieving perfect clarity and amazingly enriched by each experience.

Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river,

She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters

And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor,

And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers,

There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning,

They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever,

While Suzanne holds the mirror.

And you want to travel with her,

And you want to travel blind,

And you know that you can trust her,

For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind.

How can we capture the shared implicit? Certainly not by analyzing it to death. Poetry and music can help us transmit the experience of the ineffable. We let ourselves experience whatever resonance the melody and words have for us. It touches something in us, and the experience we have of it is very personal.

At a conference, several of us presented a panel. We wanted to communicate experientially what we called “Shared Field”. So we started with a song – Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen.

Now, it is on this web page you’re reading (recording by Bruce Nayowith). As you listen to it, you may remember that we put it there to give you a sense of what we mean by “shared field”. Or you may be carried away by your own associations with the music and the words. Or…

In other words, what happens here is not perfectly clear communication, in the sense that copying a digital file is a way to perfectly transfer information from one support to another. The implicit field where this communication takes place is more nebulous. It is at the same time inefficient in achieving perfect clarity and amazingly enriched by each experience.

Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river,

She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters

And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor,

And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers,

There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning,

They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever,

While Suzanne holds the mirror.

And you want to travel with her,

And you want to travel blind,

And you know that you can trust her,

For she’s touched your perfect body with her mind.

In this conversation (September 2015), Dirk Marivoet talks about getting an embodied experience of life…a sense of your own rhythm and pulsation….a sense of your orientation in the universe you live in… and an understanding and integration of the lessons that lie in the encounter…thus dreaming and weaving yourself into a life while being dreamt and being the web yourself…

Dirk Marivoet is the director of the Institute for Bodymind Integration in Ghent (Belgium). He studied Core-Energetics under John C. Pierrakos, MD; Postural Integration®, Energetic Integration and Pelvic-Heart Integration under Jack Painter, PhD (and has been a certified trainer/supervisor since 1999). He has also worked extensively with native shamanism both in Europe and North America. Earlier in the 80s and 90s he was adjunct faculty Psychomotor Therapy at Leuven University, where he still teaches.

Published September 2015