Group Practices
For Collective Awakening
Meditation practice is vital for helping you slow down, come home to your body and wake up to what is here in the present moment. Shared practices are equally vital to helping you to wake up to your life and to become an embodied expression of your best self.
The practices that I have shared in this section are designed to help people feel safer, increase a sense of belonging, engage everyone with practice and encourage people to go deeper into their experience.
One of the most important things with group practice is that there is space for people to show up with their full selves; they feel they can be somewhat authentic in their expression, including when that is dissonant with the rest of the group. Authentic connection makes it much easier for people to show up and be present, increasing the depth of the practice for everyone and making profound transformations much more likely.
Introducing an aspect of the interpersonal into practice also means that people will be more likely to be able to take insights back into their day-to-day experience in a meaningful way and make the changes that impact their lives in positive ways.
With all of these practices the role of facilitator is really important.
As the facilitator, whether it’s in a formal practice setting or with a friend, you will be holding the space for the practice to happen in.
The aim is to create a space that people can show up and be themselves in; one that is welcoming of all aspects of their being, rather than a space where people feel like they have to adopt a persona to fit in.
It’s important to make the space physically safe and psychologically safe – people feel that they can share fairly openly without being attacked or judged.
A lot of these practices are incredibly simple and a lot of the magic comes from allowing them to come to life in the collective conscious.
In practice space, problems or challenges don’t need to be solved in the same way that they do in the outside world. You can trust that creating space for things to come to the surface and be seen and held is enough.
I believe that spiritual practice needs to change. It feels like we are at a crisis point in the development of humanity and we need to learn how we can take care of each other better and harness the force of human ingenuity and compassion before we self-destruct.
The power of a team of people who care and respect for each other is immense; people are far more able to focus on the things that matter and to harness people’s productivity in a worthwhile way when they feel seen, valued and welcomed.
Using practice space as a way for people to learn to connect with each other in more meaningful ways is one of the best ways to change your life and benefit the world. It also makes the practice itself a lot more fun and rewarding.
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