collective awareness practices

group inquiries into the curious nature of existence

I’ve been a lifelong researcher of group bodies and coherent group fields, in many forms! In addition to my 10+ years studying Ensemble Thinking with Lower Left, facilitating Boulder T-group and Authentic Movement, and participating in various private consciousness-exploring groups… I’ve also co-hosted international Dialog groups and annual No-Retreats with Steven Harrison, best-selling author of Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search and international speaker on the topics of consciousness, human development, relationship, and education. We’ve held events in the United States, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Germany, focusing on the embodiment of perception and the coherent expression of group intelligence.

These Dialog spaces invite all participants’ voices equally in exploring the arising group field and actuality of who we are, not limited to beliefs and philosophies. They are collective spaces where these deep questions are more important than any answers. Words, movement, and silence are all modes of potential communication, inside the direct energetic presence of the group itself.

The No-Retreats are unique pop-up, free, live-in community gatherings that were born out of the questions: Can the intensity of natural interaction in a living community occur in a temporary setting? And, what happens when we see there is "no retreating" from life or one another? The retreats are self-organizing, with no formal retreat staff and only basic sleeping accommodations and meeting space provided. Participants buy and self-organize food, and contribute whatever they feel is appropriate financially to the event. Part of the living question is how people can communicate and organize around mutual needs. There is usually a minimal schedule consisting of morning and evening Dialogs and movement spaces that I have facilitated along with other community members. As there is no retreating from our relatedness, these gatherings are no retreat from the ordinary life we all live!

Reach out if you’d like to learn more about current private groups exploring collective consciousness, or to learn more about Steven Harrison and his work you can visit his website and his Facebook page.