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TRUST FIRST
People you can Trust
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Trust is step 1. The topics we address and the way we address them require a safe space, and a group of people we can trust. Especially because each person brings their own cases. Without trust, participants will try not to make waves, to fit in. We want everyone’s full magic and vulnerabilities.
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I have expressed myself in ways so personal that I have felt I was expressing an attitude which it was probable no one else could understand, because it was so uniquely my own. In these instances I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people. It has led me to believe that what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others. This has helped me to understand artists and poets as people who have dared to express the unique in themselves.
An Experience Worthy of Trust.
We are talking about being vulnerable, magical, transforming. Without a gradual process, we get in shock, feel alienated. We are building an experience where there is the right balance between challenge and support (aka care): the flow channel.
We depend on your feedback to adjust as we go. Being gradual means to avoid doing too many new things at once, start introducing new practices, it also means dealing with easier topics first: dreaming of a new world together is easier than talking about our challenges we face.
Finally, the way we deal with topics needs to be gradual too: from talking about distant stories, to positive stories, to stories of resolved difficulties to finally stories of unresolved difficulties.
We depend on your feedback to adjust as we go. Being gradual means to avoid doing too many new things at once, start introducing new practices, it also means dealing with easier topics first: dreaming of a new world together is easier than talking about our challenges we face.
Finally, the way we deal with topics needs to be gradual too: from talking about distant stories, to positive stories, to stories of resolved difficulties to finally stories of unresolved difficulties.
People Worthy of Trust.
At each gathering, we will get to know each other:
We might be putting the cart before the horse, but … If the early experiments work (everyone enjoys the gatherings and participants get value out of them), we can invite more people.
Growing the group introduces a risk of diminishing trust. We can address that by only accepting referrals, interviewing each new member and making sure that each member gets through the same process (the 3 workshops) before being a full member of the community and joining the deep dives on Opportunities/Obstacles.
- We’re few
- We spend enough time together
- We share and discover each other (gradually).
We might be putting the cart before the horse, but … If the early experiments work (everyone enjoys the gatherings and participants get value out of them), we can invite more people.
Growing the group introduces a risk of diminishing trust. We can address that by only accepting referrals, interviewing each new member and making sure that each member gets through the same process (the 3 workshops) before being a full member of the community and joining the deep dives on Opportunities/Obstacles.
