Pathfinder 01: ME+WE Reflection
Congratulations for completing the 3rd workshop, ME+WE today!
We all are living, breathing and standing on edges of life. With sleep, food, learning and relationship, we experience thousand pieces of spore like particles of joy, curiosity, frustration or fulfillment are activated in our core being. ME+WE workshop was not exceptional.
The objectives of ME+WE were; To Acknowledge and practice deep listening to discover new insights for communication and trust. To see how we can collectively take steps towards opening channels of communication and trust, within ourselves and communities. To experience the first steps towards connecting the ME and WE on the pathfinder pathway, through heart-to-heart communication and building of trust through vulnerable conversations. Sensing what happens when listening with presence. To take a deep dive into 1-2 areas of my pathfinder characteristics, and to look at the changes inside ourselves based on the 16 points of the compass. Integrating head-heart-hand capacities through deep listening. Gaining understanding of how to co-create a safe space for communication and trust. Nurturing foresight, preparing, co-facilitating, and communicating expectations.
Starting with offerings at the fireside by reading a quote by Joseph Campbell saying, “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” We co-sensed of head-heart-hand alignments (I believe it is possible to sense to capacities that are present in my community and building competence for communication is possible. I feel increased sensitivity towards acknowledging the existent, feeling edges, and commitment of self and community. I will listen, communicate, and continue to build trust within myself and my community.) with offerings such as rain, water flow, importance of relationships and willingness to let go which prepared us to meditate on self at the funeral. Some offerings by participants are: “Loving the forest, and all it that lives there, also requires me to love the rain as much as I love the sun shining…”, “our happiness comes from the quality of our relationships with our higher faith, ourselves, with others and the land”, “I am made of water, so following my flow and fate”, “(Indra Jatra) thanking day to lord Indra for the rain”, and “letting go of old and letting come with new NOW.” We had 2 new participants and 1 observer people who never met before.
Meditation facilitated by Tanya was on powerful to visualize a my funeral scene where people talking about myself from 4 pathfinder archetypes; explorer, protagonist, generator, and seeker. I was reflecting on Protagonist and Seeker’s capacities that I want to observe and improve. The question came to my mind was ‘How am I going to be more generative protagonist?’ And others like ‘How to be humble to nature as an explorer?’
We practiced Deep Listening by observing our awareness increases and started sensing what is being said beyond words during the breakout session. It helped to meet storyteller’s intention and desire which created a safe space that we mutually feel respect and trust. Sharing participants’ experience and facilitation key points were rich in context and generative in harvest.
Visual sense-making created by Joanne was enriching to reflect on what’s said and learned. The images represented key connections of diverse elements and captured ME + WE and Pathfinder’s challenges and hopes in water-like flow and sunset calmness colors and strokes. It was an impactful harvest of we were co-evolving with spoken and unspoken understanding of ME+WE relationships. We wanted to spend more time to immerse in artful harvest of the entire session.
The session ended with a kind reminder of that path we are: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.” - Frederick Douglass
