My pal, Lawrence Kampf and I are convening a small group today, eight of us for ninety minutes on zoom. Our theme is, “The Art of Going Deeper.” He picked three people to invite. I did too. People that we know are inclined this “going deeper” way already.
Lawrence and I go back to the mid 2010s. He was participant at an AoH near Loveland, Colorado. Then the next year joined a hosting team — so we got to learn what it was like to share the same room and the same field of wonder. Over these last ten years we’ve met sporadically via Zoom. And over the last two years found our way to a rhythm and regularity. The common thread that I’d name is “wonder and witness” together.
Today, we extend that pattern to this group and field of eight.
Lawrence asks an advance question via email to the group. Well, it is a curiosity really. He says something like, “When we commit to something, not only are we taking a step, but the universe also begins to move us.”
Definitely true for me.
I begin to feel the deepening that I want to share today. I begin to recognize questions that have been living in my periphery, now coming right home to the hearth. I begin to recognize subtleties. And blatant stuff too. It’s as if, the learning ecosystem lifts from the map and becomes visible.
These are all exciting things for me. They are that flow that Lawrence speaks of.
Here we go, again.
