We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate.   Ilya Prigogine

We live in times of increasing chaos – times that challenge our capacity to midwife the emergence of a new, convivial world. This active, engaging, & fun workshop will expand your embodied capacity to sustain and dissipate chaos. You will gain perspectives and techniques to reach greater wholeness and become the ground our world calls us to be.

Expect:  Movement (rooted in martial arts) to build self-regulation and stay grounded; Meaning (centered in subtle interaction) to develop collective presence; and Metanoia (transcendence of self) to access spirituality and deeper purpose. Together, these trajectories lead us into greater connection with ourselves, with each other, and with soul force.

Increasingly, our capacity to be whole – to act from a place of somatic, emotional, and spiritual integration – is our greatest gift. Join this session and become more grounded, to benefit both you and the world.

As integral practitioners, we know that who we are is every bit as important as what we do and how we do it.  For this reason, integrating embodied presence within our professional practice is vital.  Yet how much of our awareness is encoded into our physical being?  Are we fully ready to put ourselves on the front lines, engaging with people of different belief systems and developmental capacities?  This exploration will be rooted in Aikido, a martial art that paradoxically is centered on conflict resolution, and how the posture of a peaceful warrior offers a grounding for integral activism in the world.  We will also touch on the idea of a “Toolkit for the Metacrisis,” an evolving design project aimed at helping increase our responsiveness to this time between worlds.

Who will be at the forefront of the human response to the metacrisis?

Well, us, of course… provided that we are fully present; that we act from love, awareness and perspective; and that we have trained rigorously.

“In times of crisis we don’t rise to the level of our potential, we sink to the level of our training.”  — Archilochus

This experiential workshop emerges from the martial arts, expanding from that tradition to embrace perspectives and skillsets needed to be fully present in critical moments.

It will involve movement, play, and edge-work!  It will introduce physical techniques that serve both as tactical moves and as perspectival tools that allow us to be more resilient and response-able.  It represents an introduction to the rigorous training we are called to at this time between worlds.

The “work” of this workshop is that of maturation: moving towards eldership centered on serving collective wellbeing while being whole unto ourselves.

This workshop will also engage participants in helping design a “Toolkit for the Metacrisis,” a work in progress that could become a training tool for those preparing to be frontline agents for planetary survival.