Five of us gathered. Zoom. Two hours on a Monday evening.
Men in ritual was what brought us together. A workshop for learning from two weeks ago. Some of us have been friends over the years. Some of us are new in friendship, yet somehow feeling the way that good sincerity and connection makes us feel like old friends.
Sometimes
the
Simple
is
the
Super.
I offered format last night, a call-back on material I offered two weeks ago.
- “There’s what we know. And then there is everything else.”
- Ritual brings us to relationship with such reality (and then there is everything else…)
- When / Why Ritual
- when we need help / relationship with what is invisible
- when we need help / relationship with something too big for us
- as regular work-out (I added this one last night; why not practice for practice sake)
And then Check-In. I invited each to bring a candle and then light it when their turn for checking-in.
– Who are you, really? What is it that you are hungry for with Men in Ritual?
Men (humans) checking in is ritual. Listening…intuiting…sharing…
Then Stories. Of the big stuff. Of the small stuff. Of the nailed it stuff. Of the messed it up stuff. A couple of rounds of this — sincerity grows sincerity.
And then Check-Out.
– What has been important to you tonight?
– Pause — blowing out our candles together.
Oodles of insight. And delight. And beauty last night. And, well, spice of ritual. I’m glad for it. Moved by the men. Glad to offer. And to have it called out of me.
Sometimes the Simple is the Super.
