I had my first experience of hosting a large event when I was at the Evolutionary Salon. I was fortunate to be a part of an amazing team of four. We hosted the final day and for each of us it was a powerful experience… as Peggy came to name it, a shamanic act of […]
Author Archives: ashley
Losing Our Way of Life
One of the books I’m playing in right now is Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin. This passage brought to mind several conversations I’ve had with people recently… so I offer it here: “As we grapple with the awareness that our personal lives cannot be separated from the life of our times, we are forced […]
Opening, Awakening, Listening, Offering
Are you ready to invite the learning of un-limited listening?Are you ready to invite the learning of un-limited sharing? Let us invite an opening of spacefor clarity in the field of relation. May we use our “believing ears”our trusting hearts,and our embodied beingto listen for the deep story, the teachingof our own personal wisdom,of the […]
Forms of Personal and Collective Practice
Inquiry is an essential part of my personal life practice. A current inquiry: the relationship between personal practices and collective practices. One way of describing practice is the process of listening deeply, becoming intimately engaged in a certain way of being. For example, a person who practices piano learns to know the instrument, the notes, […]
Patterns in Curiosities
I noticed a pattern yesterday. I ran across an old blog post that I wrote after attending a gathering around the theme “Opening Space for Giving to Flourish” that had parts in common with some of my reflections after the evolutionary salon. I noticed that in the presence of such an inspirational group of people […]
TRUTH SIGNS
I like to collect what i have come to call “Truth Signs”… words or even images that point me in a direction that i want to go…. lighthouses if you will. Below is a favorite of mine ! This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give […]
Wisdom’s Presence
Chris Corrigan writes: I am most interested in ways of being together in groups, communities, families and other aggregations, but also in what wisdom looks like in the structures that support those groups, structures like money, power, the natural world and information. My mind then shifted to thoughts about presence. At the salon, my awareness […]